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When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash

posted by FatPhil on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-tip dept.

Justin Case brings us this story from NPR's Morning Edition:

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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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:35AM (#619922)

    "...or take lessons in what it requires to be a proper human being."

    When business owners take those lessons first and actually pay a proper salary, I'll feel guilted into doing so. Remember tipping started because business owners deliberately started paying their staff too little, expecting the customer to actually pay the rest of it on top of what they're actually buying.

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