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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: 2) by ledow on Tuesday January 09 2018, @04:05PM
"Thus costing them whatever they could have possibly saved in change time a thousand times over."
Only if you represent even 10% of their customers. Otherwise your refusal is lost in the noise of 90% of their customers coming back every time and paying by card (possibly without even realising they don't take cash), and then not having to handle cash (secure tills, the little sucky-tube machines to move it, safes, two people to count it and bag it, security van visits to pick it up, banking fees, etc.)