Credit card receipt

Do they check before putting the card away that it's not blocked?

That happened to me for the first time a couple of months back. Before they would honour our reservation, the Eliot Arms in South Cerney took my card and put it in an envelope in the till. Bearing in mind this is a quite upmarket area, I was extremely surprised. Naturally, we will never go there again, not anywhere else that does that - I refuse to be assumed guilty until proved innocent! Had we not had hungry friends with us, I would have made my views known in no uncertain manner and walked straight out. As it was I paid first and then made my views known.

In message , Bob Henson writes

I was stopping in a pub earlier this year where they did that. They had been getting several runners a week (easily ?100 a time). It doesn't take many of those to cause major cash flow problems. Sadly it doesn't matter how up market an area is, there are thieves at all levels.

Adrian

Sadly, true. Fortunately, there are plenty of hostelries around here who won't embarrass me in front of friends, so I shall go to them.

I fail to see how it protects them from runners who nicked the card earlier that day or bought it for a tenner from a fellow criminal who did so.