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Never heard of that, sounds funny. :-)
by krab 3y ago
Never heard of that, sounds funny. :-)
- devilbunny 3y agoThere's a restaurant I've given up on for one of those fees. It's not on their PDF menus at all, nor the HTML ones. Just a nice little surprise when you go there. Fuck you. Pay your employees out of my bill, or go out of business, but don't tell me I owe 4% more for "kitchen support". Much like restaurants that want to charge the customer for credit-card fees. Oh, you want to do that? I'll show you why restaurants were among the first to adopt credit payments even with merchant fees: because when you pay cash, some employees steal. And they steal a lot.
- hot_gril 3y agoThe card costs them money to process, so they tack on approximately that amount. And you can opt out by paying cash. Seems fair, though maybe the card price should be default.
- devilbunny 3y agoCash costs money to process, too. I want the manager to have to run to the bank several times a day to get fresh change and deposit cash, tearing out their hair from frustration, for imposing such an annoying requirement.
- hot_gril 3y agoOh that cash isn't going to the bank, at least not all of it.
- devilbunny 3y agoNo, no, definitely not. I'm talking about the parts they can't hide as easily.
- briHass 3y agoCash is also preferred in food service, because it's easier to cheat on taxes. When you're paid a tip in cash, with no paper trail of what that amount was, the reported earnings on the tax form is merely a suggestion to tell the truth.
- hot_gril 3y agoMy favorite local restaurant has a 3% card surcharge and a 10% cash discount, so like, 14.4% card surcharge. Yeah, probably for tax reasons. (This isn't why they're my favorite, their food is just really good.)