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: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:32AM
Right, I've seen these too. I was wondering why there couldn't be a hopper/counter/sorter that could feed them back in to the top, so you could take the change you needed, donate or pay forward the rest, and leave the coins so they could go back in the machine to be redispensed if you didn't want your change.