I think that if the computer was down, he would get a message saying that the computer was down or that the transaction was not completed. In this case the waiter said that the cards were declined. If the computer was down how could it decline the cards?
Maybe it was an innocent computer malfunction or maybe it was a waiter trying to get away with something or even a business owner trying to avoid taxes. There's no real reason to believe any of these things, but there's no real reason to discount any of them either.
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