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

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: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:46PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:46PM (#620113) Journal

    In a small organization, yes. Maybe.
    In a larger store: if it happens in the morning, do you wait to see if it comes back (here in Canada, you have to pay people for at least 3 hours wage unless you tell them ahead of time and they stay home (although Wynne/Whine (whatever her name is in Ontario who won't get voted back in no matter how much she wishes) may just have changed something in this dynamic...not sure).
    So, the people come in: no debit/credit...no customers. Do you send staff home, realizing they will be paid for 3 hours no matter what. No, you keep them for 3 hours. Now, you got people coming in for the lunch rush. Do you phone staff and tell them not to come in, thinking the system will still be down or do you have them come in and hope it comes back up.

    Finally, your afternoon people/supper rush people are coming in. Systems still down but may come back up ANYTIME NOW. What do you do.

    If you close, you seriously piss off your customers. If you stay open and the system comes back up, but you've told people to stay home and they've made other plans, what do you do? If you are short staffed your customers get pissed off.

    It's not a no brainer to just close. You've got your district manager saying "You didn't meet your target, cut your hours and you'll have to make up the splh over the next week" even though it wasn't your fault.

    If you stay open and the system comes back up, you're a shiny new star in the sky.
    If you stay open and your system stays down, you are fucked.
    If you close, you are fucked for splh because you've paid your people to show up in the morning and are paying them for their 3 hours NO MATTER WHAT and you're customers are pissed.

    So... do you stay open and hope the system comes up quickly ...... or do you close and hope you have a fabulous next day and will make up your splh?

    It's not a no brainer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:51PM (1 child)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:51PM (#620115) Journal

    Systems still down but may come back up ANYTIME NOW. What do you do.

    Ask an old person, who remembers that the Earth used to rotate even before we had systems.

    Seriously, would you be cool with your local emergency room saying "We've been down for three days; don't know why; don't know when; come back later. (Shrug.)"?

    Oh but saving lives is important.

    And your business isn't?

    Your call, I guess. Bear the consequences.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 09 2018, @07:46PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @07:46PM (#620173) Journal

      Ummmm let's see: emergency room, government funded (or US style, insurance funded or rich people funded) doesn't matter and they take CASH!

      My own business....if I don't take cash....

      Get a reality check. Go be stupid somewhere else.

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