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Cash will tie up an additional employee behind the counter. One of the reasons we are able to not accept tips and pay fair wages instead, is because we don't ne

Cash will tie up an additional employee behind the counter. One of the reasons we are able to not accept tips and pay fair wages instead, is because we don't need a person at the register. And while you can use that person for other tasks when there is no one in line, they do need to glove up each time they may handle a food item. Also, in LA cash is a safety issue if you plan on staying open late when traffic is low. To facilitate anonymous payments, we will accept crypto soon.

temprose 4y ago
how does handling crypto work, do you exchange it for USD daily in order to avoid fluctuations in the value of crypto?
ramphastidae 4y ago
It seems like promoting a fairer society is a priority for you, given your focus on paying fair wages. That’s great! Please consider extending that desire to serving people who do not have credit cards or bank accounts (or crypto …) Plenty of them exist and like coffee too.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  NYC had to put a stop to the cashless trend because it is unfair to only offer services to those eligible for banking.
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    It is unfair to lay that burden on businesses, when it should be the government’s job to operate infrastructure. It would be trivial for the federal government to offer each individual an electronic money account that legally cannot be closed and is forever accessible to them. And as an adjacent comment wrote, the in person services infrastructure can be tacked onto USPS.
    - woodruffw 4y ago
      NYC can’t, for better or worse, dictate federal policy. Given the limited scope of its authority, requiring businesses to take the currently available form of universal currency seems not unreasonable.
    - freejazz 4y ago
      You want the government to run banks so that stores don't need cash registers?
      - lotsofpulp 4y ago
        I wrote “electronic money accounts”, and yes. It is clear that electronic money has lots of utility, and it makes sense for a society to ensure its existence as infrastructure. The same infrastructure can also serve as an identity verification service, which is also sorely needed. There is no reason it has to operate as a bank, which would involve becoming a lender.
    - notch656c 4y ago
      The government will never never allow any kind of bank account that cannot be closed and is forever accessible. The closest we have to that is gold buried in a hole somewhere or maybe a cold storage seed phrase in your head and the discipline not to reveal it in torture.
    - dahart 4y ago
      Trivial you say? How so? Tacked onto the USPS? Why would it be a good idea to have the USPS run a bank with no experience or staff in banking, for every single person in the country, especially when the USPS CEO is more or less openly trying to dismantle and then privatize it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy *edit to just add I read the article posted by sibling, they are proposing a “pilot program” to offer check-cashing for a fee, not depository accounts, and it adds that they’re avoiding the word “bank” to distance themselves from places where you have accounts and store money and intend to keep it that way…
      - 4y ago
- pj_mukh 4y ago
  This seems like one more problem of policing individual behavior instead of solving the infrastructure problem, by say, having the Post Office run a free bank for the under-banked [1]. [1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/90683033/the-post-office-is-finally-going-to-try-out-being-a-bank https://www.fastcompany.com/90683033/the-post-office-is-fina...
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seanmcdirmid 4y ago
Cash businesses tend to get robbed much more often than places that don’t take it. Cash-only businesses, like marijuana dispensaries, are notorious for being robbed here in Seattle.
akvadrako 4y ago
Plenty of places have waiters carry around hip bags with cash instead of doing it at the register. It's no less convient than carrying around a card reader.

temprose 4y ago

how does handling crypto work, do you exchange it for USD daily in order to avoid fluctuations in the value of crypto?

ramphastidae 4y ago

It seems like promoting a fairer society is a priority for you, given your focus on paying fair wages. That’s great! Please consider extending that desire to serving people who do not have credit cards or bank accounts (or crypto …) Plenty of them exist and like coffee too.

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
NYC had to put a stop to the cashless trend because it is unfair to only offer services to those eligible for banking.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  It is unfair to lay that burden on businesses, when it should be the government’s job to operate infrastructure. It would be trivial for the federal government to offer each individual an electronic money account that legally cannot be closed and is forever accessible to them. And as an adjacent comment wrote, the in person services infrastructure can be tacked onto USPS.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    NYC can’t, for better or worse, dictate federal policy. Given the limited scope of its authority, requiring businesses to take the currently available form of universal currency seems not unreasonable.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    You want the government to run banks so that stores don't need cash registers?
    - lotsofpulp 4y ago
      I wrote “electronic money accounts”, and yes. It is clear that electronic money has lots of utility, and it makes sense for a society to ensure its existence as infrastructure. The same infrastructure can also serve as an identity verification service, which is also sorely needed. There is no reason it has to operate as a bank, which would involve becoming a lender.
  - notch656c 4y ago
    The government will never never allow any kind of bank account that cannot be closed and is forever accessible. The closest we have to that is gold buried in a hole somewhere or maybe a cold storage seed phrase in your head and the discipline not to reveal it in torture.
  - dahart 4y ago
    Trivial you say? How so? Tacked onto the USPS? Why would it be a good idea to have the USPS run a bank with no experience or staff in banking, for every single person in the country, especially when the USPS CEO is more or less openly trying to dismantle and then privatize it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy *edit to just add I read the article posted by sibling, they are proposing a “pilot program” to offer check-cashing for a fee, not depository accounts, and it adds that they’re avoiding the word “bank” to distance themselves from places where you have accounts and store money and intend to keep it that way…
    - 4y ago
pj_mukh 4y ago
This seems like one more problem of policing individual behavior instead of solving the infrastructure problem, by say, having the Post Office run a free bank for the under-banked [1]. [1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/90683033/the-post-office-is-finally-going-to-try-out-being-a-bank https://www.fastcompany.com/90683033/the-post-office-is-fina...
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seanmcdirmid 4y ago

Cash businesses tend to get robbed much more often than places that don’t take it. Cash-only businesses, like marijuana dispensaries, are notorious for being robbed here in Seattle.

akvadrako 4y ago

Plenty of places have waiters carry around hip bags with cash instead of doing it at the register. It's no less convient than carrying around a card reader.