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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: 3, Touché) by ledow on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:05AM
Or PayM.
Or PingIt.
Or Paypal, even.
Loads of places do that and most only need a mobile phone number or email or similar to send money to people.
I mean "those friends who only have cash", and things like work colleagues who don't want to faff about adding you for a single payment and happen to have a tenner on them.
To be honest, as time goes by - and especially with younger friends - they are infinitely more likely to do a direct bank transfer to me via their banking app, rather than any third-party service.