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Bluestone, which now has 20 stores in the U.S., went cashless last October.
A big reason: Nearly 90 percent of customers [...] never paid in cash.
Another reason: The lines move faster when employees don't have to make change.
"We see a lot of guests that pay for a meal with a credit card, but will always leave a cash tip. And I think people like doing that. People like palming a bartender a $20 or palming their server a $10. Palming the bus boy a couple bucks," said Fileccia.
There are also people, he said, who want to keep their meal off the books — if they're having an affair, for example.
No, businesses are not required to accept cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender
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When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash
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What's so funny?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Tuesday January 09 2018, @03:13PM
In other news, nearly 90 percent of their customers are idiots who don't value their privacy.
When I walk in to a brick and mortar store, I usually expect to be able to pay cash. (And hopefully without a "loyalty" or "discount" tracking card) Any place that doesn't, probably won't get by business.
What store would turn away 10% of their customers? or even 1%? Probably the same idiots that used to make their web site only accessible in Internet Explorer 4/5/6 because those pesky less than 10% Netscape users are unimportant and should just switch.
If you want to make cash a little less annoying for your cashiers, start rounding off to the nearest 0.05 and get rid of pennies. Thanks to inflation, those are worthless and just annoying now. Ah, but those in charge WANT cash to be as big of a headache as possible.