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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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(Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:42AM
Parking meters are a much older scam than those red light cameras. The city is really hoping that they can bust owners of parked cars with huge fines for expired meters, and have been known to fiddle with the timing to make the meters expire too soon. Enforcers hover over nearly expired meters, with tickets already written and ready to be slapped on the car the second the meter expires. Or they don't wait for the last few seconds to tick away. Why bother waiting if it looks like no one can reach the car in time? Another trick is limiting the maximum time the meter can handle to less than what people need, for instance to wait in a long line. Much more lucrative than collecting chicken feed.
One day after work, a friend of mine who parked on the same street every working day for months discovered that the city had added new parking meters to the street. Of course there was a parking ticket on his car that day.
I found the story of Sylvia Stayton especially revealing: http://articles.latimes.com/1996-11-10/news/mn-63253_1_parking-meters [latimes.com] She was a nice granny who fed coins into expired meters, and the police actually arrested her for that. She interfered with their racket.
I'll walk a mile to avoid having to use a parking meter. Or I'll take my business elsewhere. Parking meters are the top reason I never park in the downtown area of a large city.