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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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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @12:34PM (1 child)
In Europe cash is and remains king.
There are however a few exceptions:
Nordic countries, UK and Ireland are less cash heavy than other EU Countries.
As I Belgian there are certain groups I want to know as little as possible about my or anyone's finances...
Namely the state((s), both Federal, provincial, city and district), the banks (who are legally required to send certain info to the state(s)) and the IRS.
I trust no government with my money, and no Bank not to do stupid things (like lending out 40 times what the bank has in deposits) so I prefer cash and avoid CC as much as possible.
Any shop not taking cash is a dead set idiot bunch of fucktards whom will only hear my laughter fade away as they reload whatever I had put in my trolley back on their shelves while I walk off laughing at their idiocracy. Thus costing them whatever they could have possibly saved in change time a thousand times over.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday January 09 2018, @04:05PM
"Thus costing them whatever they could have possibly saved in change time a thousand times over."
Only if you represent even 10% of their customers. Otherwise your refusal is lost in the noise of 90% of their customers coming back every time and paying by card (possibly without even realising they don't take cash), and then not having to handle cash (secure tills, the little sucky-tube machines to move it, safes, two people to count it and bag it, security van visits to pick it up, banking fees, etc.)