Visa CPS Restaurant rates are only available to restaurants and quick-serve fast food merchants. Restaurant rates are slightly higher than their retail counterparts. Click through to see what card rates restaurants can expect to see, and what potential downgrades will look like.
Chip+PIN is the “strongest” encryption method since it’s much harder to steal a PIN than fake a signature. Currently, most US banks issue Chip+Signature cards. As time moves on, they’ll migrate towards Chip+PIN.
EMV, otherwise known as Chip Cards, are the new payment technology adopted by the card associations. You’ll also hear it called “Chip and Pin” or “Chip and Signature” – but not matter the moniker, it’s important that all in-person merchants accept EMV transactions.