Credit Card Mentality Comes To the Fast “FOOD” Lane
A credit cards usage nowadays is just as much a substitute for cash as it is for increasing a credit line with each use. The ATM card popularity has given rise to the combo cards that will work either way as you get to choose where the funding comes from. These bank credit cards are now so common that the local fast food outlets are starting to rely on them as a time shrinker and the busier the counter the more efficient the card only lane becomes.
In the hope of saving time the fast food ATM-Auto Check out machines now pass you without your pin if they can see a bank account, checking preferred, attached to the debit or credit card. Some Don’t look that deep but will stop and ask for your pin if a second attempt is made to use your card in their same system within x number of minutes. Cards being lost in line, a lot, prompted that innovation.
Credit card sized cards for access is old technology. But for the price, reliability, and ease of hardware repair and maintenance, card entry systems and for ID use still rule with the bean counters if basic security is all that’s needed. Because of that broad acceptance it was easy to exchange the card for folding green in the minds of the public.







