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Originally Posted by Outdoorsman
That has nothing to do with it.
The issue is, unless you read all the fine print BEFORE dining at such an establishment, they will take you for 10+% by the time you leave!
Some establishments that "do not take CC" will offer an ATM machine ... INSIDE the establishment! That convenient machine will charge you about 5% "convenience fee"! The owner either owns or collects a percentage of that PROFIT! The workers get nothing (except the smaller tip) because people do not have unlimited funds to pay 5% extra to the owner because they refuse to take other forms of payment.
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Hi Outdoorsman....understand your disappointment and realize we might be busier taking plastic. But just to set the record straight, when we installed the ATM I asked the installer to keep the rate down since we did not want any commissions. I believe it is 2.5 at this time. It is strictly for customer convenience and we've never taken any commissions.
We considered taking plastic once and had a meeting about it and wait staff was totally against it. They much prefer to get cash tips in person.
Last reason is that we save nearly 30K annually in fee's which allows us to keep our prices down.
We realize that we're behind the times and some day we'll probably be taking CC, phones aps and other electronic payment but for now it works for us.