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Cash only is very common at a lot of places in the US. It's sort of a thing that signifies quality and affordability. Pretty much all of them have an ATM so it'

Cash only is very common at a lot of places in the US. It's sort of a thing that signifies quality and affordability. Pretty much all of them have an ATM so it's not really a big deal. It's much faster and places that can make it with those policies are obviously worth visiting.

mvdtnz 3y ago
Those kinds of hole-in-the-wall places in New Zealand are overwhelmingly more like to have a "no cash" policy.
orhmeh09 3y ago
It was the same in Germany when I visited about 10 years ago. Wonder if it's changed?
ck425 3y ago
How is it faster? And why does it signify quality and affordability?
- hattmall 3y ago
  "Here's your bill." "Ok, here's my money." Or you just leave money on the table and go. There's no messing with cards or paper and signing. The back and forth etc. That goes like triple for bars where you just hand over money vs, asking to open or close and putting it in the computer etc. Quality because they are so good they don't need to do worry about alternative forms of payment. Affordability because the price is the price, no fees and they are making so much money they aren't worried about maximizing tickets and table time metrics and all that. It's definitely not going to be a corporate establishment. The owner is probably in the business and they want it to be good because that's where they eat.
- haswell 3y ago
  At least in my experience, I think the perception of quality comes from the fact that these places are the kinds of places that just never modernized beyond cash because they’re already good enough to always be busy or past capacity. There is no incentive to modernize because doing so would not increase business, and not doing so does not decrease business enough to matter. One of the best things about the cash only places I frequent is that they don’t have to deal with delivery services injecting themselves into the business model and consuming kitchen capacity for people not actually present. This leads to faster service overall and at worst the speed of service slows down proportionally to the number of customers at the location at any given point. And usually these places are family run so you’re always seeing the same folks behind the counter and they actually care. All combined, these factors lead to the elevated status that many ascribe to cash only places.
  - ck425 3y ago
    Hmm I've noticed the delivery service thing at times. But my perception of business's that don't take card these days (post pandemic at least) is that they're more likely to be slightly dodgy and skimming the books. That or stubbornly stuck in there ways.
mikestew 3y ago
Pretty much all of them have an ATM so it's not really a big deal. This one won’t, because guess what ATMs have? A screen. Somewhere on this page is the “owner” commenting that they’d take cards, but all of the terminals have…a screen.
polynomial 3y ago
MUCH faster. A consistent order or magnitude at least, in my experience.

mvdtnz 3y ago

Those kinds of hole-in-the-wall places in New Zealand are overwhelmingly more like to have a "no cash" policy.

orhmeh09 3y ago

It was the same in Germany when I visited about 10 years ago. Wonder if it's changed?

ck425 3y ago

How is it faster? And why does it signify quality and affordability?

hattmall 3y ago
"Here's your bill." "Ok, here's my money." Or you just leave money on the table and go. There's no messing with cards or paper and signing. The back and forth etc. That goes like triple for bars where you just hand over money vs, asking to open or close and putting it in the computer etc. Quality because they are so good they don't need to do worry about alternative forms of payment. Affordability because the price is the price, no fees and they are making so much money they aren't worried about maximizing tickets and table time metrics and all that. It's definitely not going to be a corporate establishment. The owner is probably in the business and they want it to be good because that's where they eat.
haswell 3y ago
At least in my experience, I think the perception of quality comes from the fact that these places are the kinds of places that just never modernized beyond cash because they’re already good enough to always be busy or past capacity. There is no incentive to modernize because doing so would not increase business, and not doing so does not decrease business enough to matter. One of the best things about the cash only places I frequent is that they don’t have to deal with delivery services injecting themselves into the business model and consuming kitchen capacity for people not actually present. This leads to faster service overall and at worst the speed of service slows down proportionally to the number of customers at the location at any given point. And usually these places are family run so you’re always seeing the same folks behind the counter and they actually care. All combined, these factors lead to the elevated status that many ascribe to cash only places.
- ck425 3y ago
  Hmm I've noticed the delivery service thing at times. But my perception of business's that don't take card these days (post pandemic at least) is that they're more likely to be slightly dodgy and skimming the books. That or stubbornly stuck in there ways.

mikestew 3y ago

Pretty much all of them have an ATM so it's not really a big deal. This one won’t, because guess what ATMs have? A screen. Somewhere on this page is the “owner” commenting that they’d take cards, but all of the terminals have…a screen.

polynomial 3y ago

MUCH faster. A consistent order or magnitude at least, in my experience.