[reissbaker]

  If a restaurant's going to go to all the trouble to install 
  a system like this and set it up so that my phone can pay
  them

Well, the point of Square is that there isn't much to install. Download the app, they mail you a reader for free (or you could pick one up at the nearest Apple store for $10 if you can't wait), and you're ready to start taking payments immediately. Setting up Square is simpler than setting up a traditional merchant account to take credit cards, and then you get these niceties on top, too.

But I'll bet that tap-to-order is on its way.

[corin_]

You've missed the entire topic of this article - it's about a new Square system that detects when you are in the store because your phone is on you. Not just Square's basic card reader device/software.

[reissbaker]

I think you missed this line:

    and then you get these niceties on top, too

My point was that the entire Square package (including Card Case) is easy to set up and trivial to use. Figs was apparently under the impression that it was complicated for merchants to "install a system like this."