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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: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:26PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:26PM (#620682) Journal

    I think you're the person who did not read the last sentences on the section on U.S. in the Legal Tender article. What part of...

    There is no federal law stating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins for payment. Private businesses are free to create their own policies on whether or not they accept cash, unless there is a specific state law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in cents or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores, and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency as a matter of policy or safety.

    ....made you think that a place can't accept cash? You place the order, it's given to you, the debt has been created for you to fulfill. Especially if you've eaten it. If you drop a $100 bill on the table, the establishment has every right to tell you they won't accept that and you still owe the debt. Until or unless you go to court to prove that the debt was satisfied.
    That thing on the note that it's Legal Tender for All Debts, Private and Public, was put on there because there were a LOT of questions about whether those notes (especially when backed by gold) were legal for the U.S. Government to print and declare they were money. Has nothing to do with requiring they be accepted as such, and everything to do with the authority of the government to say that they CAN be.
    For order and to avoid conflict, this place would be well advised to post signs that say Credit Cards Only - We Don't Take Cash. But they are also perfectly within their rights to call the cops when someone doesn't drop payment the way they expect, especially if they've published it as such. (Same as a place putting up a sign, "We Don't Take Checks" or Credit Cards.) Stupid for them to do so with cash IMNSHO, but legal.

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