You go to a restaurant, eat enough and pay. What is natural? Ask the price and take the money out of your wallet. In the United States, some establishments no longer accept paper money, only credit or debit cards. Evolution or unnecessary restriction? qe5l
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That's what Shania Bryant, assistant designer, heard at the Dig Inn, She ate chicken, brown rice and yams. When she arrived at the cashier, the clerk refused to accept your $50 bill. The customer was taken by surprise. It was then explained that the only accepted payment method is credit or debit card.
“I've never experienced this before,” said Bryant, who even as a young man (20 years old) was surprised by the restaurant's attitude. “I think we are in new times”.
Without having a card and having already eaten, the restaurant preferred to lose money than receive paper. Bryant didn't have to pay anything, "but just this once," the clerk said.
Midtown Manhattan's 38th Street Dig Inn isn't the only restaurant to deny paper money. That it's becoming a movement of establishments in the United States. From the vegan restaurant Two Forks to Dos Toros, which specializes in tacos.
Behind it is the View. She offered merchants $10 to no longer accept paper money in sales. This is because with each card transaction made, the company that supplies the brand profits, it can be Visa, Mastercard or others. In New York alone, Visa expects growth of $6,8M monthly in merchants' income. It also points out that more than 186 million working hours are to be saved. There's still the issue of security, there won't be any money to steal, making the place less attractive to do so.
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Leo Kremer, co-chief executive of Dos Toros, explains how important it is not to receive paper money at any of New York's 13 restaurants. "There's something fundamentally demoralizing when you have the owner of the restaurant going back to the office to count money instead of being out in the eyes of the customers." Kremer comments that accepting only credit cards has saved money counting time of managers and cashiers.
While Leo Kremer says that only a few customers complain about the "no-cash" policy, employees don't agree. “Every day I have to apologize to someone about it”, said a cashier at Dos Toros on 40th Street, who could not reveal his name as he spoke without company authorization.
Despite excluding people without a card from the customer list, these restaurants do not feel disadvantaged. Generally, are expensive places, where a cup of coffee costs US$ 3. Therefore, the prices are already in charge of “scare” people without a bank , since they don't have so much money to save.
There is no law that prohibits establishments from restricting the form of payment. According to Clayton Gillette, a professor at the New York University School of Law, if the restaurant gives prior notice to the customer that it only accepts credit cards, eating is like accepting the “ of contract”.
Profit and agility. But that's not what Lisa Gaytan and her friend experienced when they went to buy an ice cream at Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream. The card machine has a problem and it was not possible to pay. Without accepting money, the vegan chocolate ice cream was free.
“My thought was, sometimes the analog world works better than the digital one,” said Mrs. Gaytan. "We both walked out of there saying 'how crazy'."
Source: The New York Times
