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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 JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:10PM
Lots of credit cards go over satellite link - especially those at gas pumps.
The new "smart chips" seem to both be 3x slower than the old swipe system and also have been passed through an anti-user-experience design process making sure to require the card to be inserted when the user would naturally pull it out, require a signature when the user is still holding their wallet from getting the card out, instantly make a "you've done something WRONG" audible alarm when it's time to remove the card, and otherwise set an extremely low bar from which to improve in the future.
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