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
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @02:04PM
>> "(The French, Germans and Swiss are still big on cash, and that is just in the EU)"
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> I have travelled through all three of those, for months on end, without a single cash-related problem.
Really? You can't even pay for public transport e.g. in Hamburg (or pretty much anywhere else) without cash. They only take the local German "debit" cards since they have no fees (or rather, they just use them to find your bank account and take the money from there).
The convenience store in my home village ONLY takes cash, even though they are owned by the bank (you can go over to the bank and take out cash, if you are not a customer you'll pay for that though).
Also, even at big stores like ALDI and LIDL it's only since maybe 4 years you can pay with card, and only since about 1 year they take CREDIT cards. And not sure they still have the 10 Euro minimum for that.