Certainly a mistake on their part, albeit easily remedied. “Cash Only” placard right at the entrance. I’m surprised, because any business with that policy wants to make sure this is understood. Saves a lot of wasted time.
You’d think so.
My guess is this helps drive business to their very overpriced ATM which, I suspect, they get a cut from those fees.
Also, the places I noted are more a neighborhood kinda place. It is mostly for locals and the locals know.
But really, there are no obvious signs they are cash only.
I was surprised to read that some Chik-Fil-A’s, of all places, were planning to go cashless!
Oooh…. Hm. You’re much too young to be that cynical. But I bet that’s it.
One of our local (national) Pizza places used to allow ordering online cash payments on their website. It’s still there, but it disappears at some point in the process.
I first noticed this for in-store pickup. I thought about it and decided this makes sense, I guess, because it would limit the “baked though not picked up” wasted pizzas. They don’t want that. There is an option button for cash payment delivery when signed in as a “guest”, though not when signed in.
And the pay cash option automagically self deletes at checkout if you try to leave a tip! So maybe it is still possible to order a pizza online and pay cash, so long as you leave no tip to the delivery driver. I sort of lost interest in paying with cash at this point.
Too much hassle? Liability? Danger to delivery folks? And… that’s why we can’t have nice things.
I don’t understand that. If you’re paying cash, and wanted to tip the delivery driver, wouldn’t you just hand the delivery driver some extra cash? Why would you be trying to leave a tip via the website if you’re paying cash?
I only order pickup from the (what’s now national, but originally local to this area) local pizza chain’s website and after telling them I want to pick it up, it asks me how I want to pay, the choices are “credit card”, “cash on receipt” and “gift card”. Even if you plan on paying with the first or last of those, you can choose the middle option and pay that way when you go to pick it up, which is what I do. I’m guessing that it’s not an option if you choose delivery.
We used to go to a restaurant owned/operated by an older Italian woman (with jet black hair). There was a big CASH ONLY sign on her door. In addition, there were no checks with how much you owed, she just did the math in her head. She was usually a few dollars too high or low.
Part of her shtick was her incredibly foul mouth. If someone questioned her cash only policy (“Will you accept my debit card?”) she’d loudly tell them that if they don’t like it they can “GET THE FUCK OUT!!”
We were used to her vocabulary, which allowed us to casually observe the dropped jaws and red faces she caused. We were very sad when she retired.
I made her face go crimson once. She had a few big diamonds in each ear. I’ve got a bunch (13) of CBRs in my ears. One night she took a break and sat at our table. She asked how many piercings I had. I replied, “just above the neck?” and she was freaked out.
Yep, we found this out at work. We keep a little refillable Visa card on hand for this very reason. I loaded it up with 100 and the boys all know, if you use it you replace it. It’s worked like a charm for us. We started a financial fitness program 3 yrs ago and all of my guys are on track to be debt free by retirement. Part of that plan is no (or little) credit card debt. Shame on the industry for not allowing cash. Although…,I was told last time we tried cash that they don’t allow it as a safety feature for their drivers.
I bought the same product in the past, but last time I ordered, a while back, the texture is so fine I don’t like it anymore.
I agree that they changed it - I still had some from a previous batch when I got a new batch so could directly compare. But, I don’t mind the change as it also seems to be less straight-up salt and more flavor - so you can use larger quantities and get more smoky bacon taste without over-salting. They also have a new product or two that I’d like to try (now that I know I can pay with just my credit card.)
Sorry for the hijack, folks. Back to your regularly scheduled discussion …
The local turkey farm is cash or check only. Because these are expensive turkeys and I don’t carry that much cash, I wrote a super-rare National Bank of Detroit check that’s still valid at Chase.
And there were a lot of people with checks. I mean, standing in line for 10 minutes, it was nearly 100% checks. When it was my turn to pay for my 21 pound corn-fed organic turkey for $98, there was no check verification service. They didn’t even want to see my ID. In fact, their only requirement was my phone number on my check, which would have been easy to fake.
Come to think of it, it would have been easy to laser print completely fake checks to rip these guys off. I hope that it doesn’t happen a lot, because I’ve been going here for 20 years (not every year, just years I’m home and responsible for turkey). I want them to survive.
Anyway, it’s hard to believe that their check losses are less than credit card fees would be. And like estate sales, I’d actually be willing to pay that extra 3%.
We have a local meat market that used to operate in the same fashion. High quality meat in a small community, where the owner knew probably 95% of his clientele. Cash or check only, because he didn’t want to mess with a CC machine.
He passed away suddenly a couple of years ago, and the shop is now run by his nephew, who accepts credit cards and doesn’t like to take checks!
For many years there was a wonderful Mediterranean restaurant in our town (falafels, etc.) owned by an eccentric but warmhearted lady. She refused to take credit cards, it was cash only. Then she died and one of her children took over. First thing he did, he started accepting credit cards.