I'm not sure about other ladies, but I do not. I've heard stories of gentlemen handing over blank gift cards or "forgetting" to load them and I'm not going to take a chance.
The lady could call the number on the back and check the balance while you are there, but that seems like a pain.
Why not just give cash? If you have an atm/debit or credit card you can just as easily get cash from any ATM. Cash is always accepted
I've never tried to give a lady a gift card and the only time I think I would try would be as a re-gift. For me that would be a card to a fitness center or something similar. The ones for food places, I'm keeping for fat ass self.
TRMs comment makes sense. Why would a provider take a Gift card that may be empty when cold hard cash works so well.
I have had pre-paid cards requested of me so that the lady could load her phone or use them to pay for BP ads. If she asked me to get her one, she would be crediting me any service fee and I would bring her the register receipts proving the amount loaded on the card.
I have before (vanilla visa cards), he had to give me the receipt and the cards needed to be unopened/untampered with....it was for a much longer date (4+ hours).