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Interestingly, Hudson Eatery no longer accepts Bitcoin. "It's very difficult to work with as an end user, like a restaurant owner," he said. "There's no easy way for me to take Bitcoins from a customer." He acknowledged that it was "awkward" to talk about 0.004 Bitcoins, or whatever, but from a practical perspective was more hampered by the problem of logging into the customer's account, then the restaurant's account, then transferring data. "It's not just like swiping a credit card," he said.
Also from the article for you short term speculators.
As a typical American I can tell you that I do not normally pay much attention at a cash register. I just swipe my card and punch my code. So what you are saying is the thing that will REALLY make bitcoin take off is having a bitcoin-charge-card just like a visa.
