[dikdik]

This is a minor inconvenience and also has the benefit of giving time to patrons to relax and chat while they finish up a meal.

As important as efficiency is, running your personal life on 100% efficiency is going to end up with people being bored as hell. Let's take out one click, remove any effort for a human being. Would we all be happy if we literally sat in the same corner and never did anything? That's 100% efficiency, you don't even have to order your groceries because they are automatically shipped to you!

There is a balance that is heavily, heavily overlooked in automation. Not to mention, removing 2 steps from paying at a restaurant is just...completely unimportant. What a waste of everyone's time, money, and talents.

[mvid]

You can always sit and wait after you get the check. This is inconvenience for some and zero value add for the rest.

If you were really concerned about not wasting people's time or talents, saving a busy professional 3 round trips would be helpful.

Or more realistically, it would result in fewer staff members for that restaurant.

[eiopa]

It's not about efficiency at all.

I want to know that I can get up and leave whenever I want to. This makes me feel much more comfortable and relaxed.

  "also has the benefit of giving time to patrons to relax and chat while they finish up a meal."

I am confused about this. I rarely get the tab while I am still eating.