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When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash

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

Justin Case brings us this story from NPR's Morning Edition:

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: 1) by GDX on Tuesday January 09 2018, @12:34PM

    by GDX (1950) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @12:34PM (#619973)

    This varies a lot for place to place, where I live the more typical is not that they do not accept large bills but that they offer a maximum of possible change. Basically in one concrete place if you offer a 200€ bill for a 160€ purchase they accept it but they don't accept a 100€ bill for a 20€ purchase as they only offer a maximum of 50€ change. And I think that this is a more sane approach.