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Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

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Going out for lunch next week with some former guys from work, thought I'd check out the place on line and see what others had to say. Sounds good but in the info posted by the restaurant, it was noted that they accepted cash. I guess that's news nowadays, not sure. I've never seen that before. When we do go out, the other 3 all pay with debit cards (like maybe a $15 hit), I always pay with cash but obviously I'm a bit out of date. Well, I'm glad they take cash, that's a bonus. Do you think there might be places that don't accept cash anymore?
 
(quoted from post at 08:07:18 12/07/17) Going out for lunch next week with some former guys from work, thought I'd check out the place on line and see what others had to say. Sounds good but in the info posted by the restaurant, it was noted that they accepted cash. I guess that's news nowadays, not sure. I've never seen that before. When we do go out, the other 3 all pay with debit cards (like maybe a $15 hit), I always pay with cash but obviously I'm a bit out of date. Well, I'm glad they take cash, that's a bonus. Do you think there might be places that don't accept cash anymore?
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A local butcher shop is running a special on a pork package. The website they have as a link has no provision to pay cash or check, just ebt or debit/credit. I emailed and asked if they took cash....no reply.
 
I went to a local appliance store a year or so ago and picked out a stove and dishwasher. They would not take cash and I didn't have my checkbook or credit card. They just told me to give the man a check when he delivered the items. Strange way to do business.
 
Yes, the number of businesses refusing cash is on the rise.

Especially restaurants. So few customers use cash, it has become a liability for them to have to keep change, hire and train employees to make change, and be responsible for the register.

And I can see why the appliance store doesn't want cash. Too much danger of robbery, both at the store, and the person that has to carry it to the bank.
 
Has the phrase "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" lost its meaning as well as some basic parts of the Constitution? TDF
 
Anything's possible now a day's, but if there is one that doesn't accept cash they are breaking the law. (read the fine print on any bill in your wallet)
 

I use cash for small stuff, under $15 or so. Above that it varies. Credit cards are best for larger stuff, like trailers and online purchases. I once tried to buy a truck on a CC, and they wouldn't take it.
The issue is the fees, which are atrocious. Between the swipe fee and the percentage, merchants can actually lose money on a small transaction. And if you buy a $13,000 truck on a CC, at 3% or so, the merchant takes a big hit as well.
All that balances against theft, robbery, mistakes, etc.
It's all in the balance.
Jim
 
I can see a valid reason for it. Plastic only payments comes because of attrition, employees with sticky fingers or employees making mistakes giving back change. In high crime areas, no cash in the register might deter thefts.
 
Have you noticed that often a "news" story involving drugs or weapons will mention a large amount of cash? What's illegal about having a large amount of cash? This is an insidious effort to criminalize cash. I heard, fairly recently, that the maximum bank transaction using cash(without being reported to the feds) had dropped from $10000, to $5000.
 
I was at a restaurant on Long Island in New York last August. They would only take cash no checks or plastic. The place was packed , food was great.
 
Took the family to eat at Lambert's (Home of the throwed roll) in Springfield, MO a while back. Pulled out my credit card to pay - they only take cash. Glad I had put a couple hundred in my wallet before leaving home or I'd probably still be washing dishes.
 
I guess if I was at a restaurant where they told me after I was done eating,that they didn't take cash,I'd be doing dishes or they'd be giving me a free meal.
 
Plastic is almost always backed by a major credit card corporation, so the vendor is always guaranteed to get paid no matter what.

No risk of someone writing a rubber check, or passing of counterfeit bills.

Plus the whole deal about making change. Even if the register tells them the amount to give back, the kids don't retain the knowledge of how to make change.

Plus it's all too tempting to skim off the register with things being so tight for everyone financially.
 
There is an old restaurant in town that only accepts cash. It's been said John Wayne broke up a fight out side this place years ago. The old guy that owns the place will never turn away someone with no money for a meal.Stan
 
(quoted from post at 08:49:08 12/07/17) Anything's possible now a day's, but if there is one that doesn't accept cash they are breaking the law. (read the fine print on any bill in your wallet)
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No federal law is broken. In MA, yes but no where else fed or state.
 
If they don't accept cash then how do they pay their undocumented workers who get robbed on the way home from work? And they don't dare report it because they are illegal!
 
Here in the frozen north, our Federal Government Passport Office will not accept cash. The government prints the stuff by the bushel, yet they will not accept it in their own departments.
A few years back, our local trash commission decided that they would not take cash at the landfill site. I protested this, and was publicly shot down in flames by a councilor. After six months of bum cheques and ditches filling up with old mattresses and chemical jugs, the commission re-thought it's position and decided cash was okay.
Not to hijack this thread, but we are now being told by governments federal, provincial, and local, that we can only access certain services if we go ON-LINE! If people protest that they don't have a computer, they are very snottily told they will have to go to the library, or have a friend do it for them. I'm beginning to know how my Grandma felt when she was continually told that she HAD to get a telephone! unc
 
Pretty easy solution- if they say they won't take cash, just lay the proper amount on the counter and walk out. They'll figure out some way to cope with it. If they call the cops, the cops will have a good laugh about it.

Little different story if they have signs all over the place about not taking cash- then its on you, and you need to either find a way to make it work, or find another place (and be sure to tell the proprietor why you're going elsewhere).

I do think that if I was trying to run a business in one of your rougher areas of large cities, I'd be cards only, too- with signs all over to that effect. The biggest obstacle to businesses in those areas is that they get robbed about 3 times a night. Notice the liquor stores are all fortresses.
 
tried pay for cab years back not take cash, i had to find one my friends for ride that night. i have also quit taking credit cards in my business, that 3% can reall add up all time and you can,t get it back
 
I agree. One of the most foolish comments I ever heard was that I "MUST" take credit cards to be competitive in business. That is absolute nonsense and it was a fella here who said it. I have never taken cards and never will. Giving away 3% of my gross to a bank is one reason. Having my sales tracked by said bank and reported, by month, to the federal government would be another reason. Not supporting a system that creates inflation, damages families financially and steals your freedom of choice would be another. I could go on...
 
Local small town chicken and pizza and bar place only takes checks and cash, no plastic.

There is nothing else in town population is under 100 but they added a second ball diamond and get a few more people from a distance passing through now for ball tournaments.

He finally broke down and put in an ATM machine, but still doesn't take plastic.

Couple years ago a couple from California passed through, had no cash. Could not believe he would have taken a check from out of state. They wondered what to do, said mail a check or cash when you get home. They were very (pleasantly) dumbfounded by all that, hadn't seen such a thing in their travels.

Paul
 
There's a family-run Italian restaurant near me. Great food, some of the best pizza I ever had, and they don't take credit or debit cards. They've been at the same location for ages.
 
Our local gyro restaurant does not accept plastic, when the guys from work and I go there during our training week, I usually pay for half the shift, since they are not carrying cash. For most, it is when they first learn the meaning of "street rate", as in I loan you $10 today, you pay me $20 tomorrow.
 
A couple of years ago, my mom had to have some blood tests at a hospital about an hour away. I took her there first thing in the morning and, as a thanks for being her chauffeur, she said she would pay for my breakfast at McDonalds. We both got our meals to stay and my mom put down a $100 bill as payment. I knew the problem some businesses have taking large denomination, but since I didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, I kept my mouth shut and didn't say anything to my mom. The lady behind the counter about freaked out. She immediately shut down the line and called the manager over. The manager saw the $100 bill, clinched his mouth and shook his head at the same time. He then told me that he had to get change from the time-lock safe and that he would bring our change out to where we would be eating. About 10 minutes later, we hadn't seen our change yet, so I walked back to the counter to remind him that he still owed us money. Another five minutes had passed and I went to remind him again. We were fully done eating and I had to go back to the counter again to get the change from the $100 bill. Most people truly do want a cash-less society.
Also try paying for a transaction with a $1 coin or a $2 bill and listen to them complain.
 
Wife does a number of bazaar, fiberfests, reinactments, and farm markets. Surprising how many customers come to those places without cash or checks. Wife has finally got a card reader for her phone thru PayPal. I hate that, but it is just the cost of doing business. At least you don't get caught with rubber checks or bogus bills.
 
Son and I are headed to the local sports bar soon to watch Thursday night football and have a cold beverage. One of the waitresses has an iPad for placing orders and collecting payment with cards, most of the other folks do it the old fashioned way bringing a bill, taking your card back, then returning for you to sign. I understand this is often a chance for your numbers to be stolen while card is out of your sight.

The only times I have had an issue have both been with the young lady and her iPad. The first time, her tip was never added to my bill, and last time, the tip I entered was replaced by a lower amount. I am returning with this last slip to show her the issue, the first time I paid the tip in cash the next time we were there, after my bank ensured me the transaction was final at the no-tip amount.
 
I can think of an airline that doesn't take cash for at least alcoholic beverages on any of their flights, and when they say "No" they mean "NO". I would love to tell you the name of the airline but as part of the settlement the judge ordered me never to mention their name publicly. He also ordered me to never get within 100 feet of their check in counters or boarding areas which is kind of hard to do when I'm flying into or out of small airports. They did not turn the plane around like they threatened, but they did have marshals there waiting for me when we landed as they said they would. I have never had another man other than a doctor touch me in the places those guys did, and when they told me to get undressed I guess that it didn't really matter because they did it for me when I slurred "NO". The bottom line here is that some airlines don't take cash while in the air, and if they tell you that they don't, don't argue with them and certainly don't try to "force" them to. And if they do turn the flight around in mid air, I understand that its more expen$ive than just having marshals meet you on the tarmac that don't even work for them. And if you brink your own beer in your carry on and put it above in the overhead compartments, make sure that its a brand that they actually have on the flight, and if it is, share with the people sitting next to you otherwise the squealers will squeal on you...the little squealers. From now on I'm just going to take a train and get my own sleeper compartment that is nowhere near the pilot, or train engineer. I have to wonder though that if you go staggering into the locomotive if they get as bent out of shape as they do in the pilots cockpit. And I thought that they were supposed to lock their cockpit anyway. If they had, well, I can't ride that airline anymore anyway, at least that's what that judge told me. I'll bet that judge has never ever ridden on a tractor much less own or even touched one.

Mark
 
My wife and I took off for a two week 4,500 mile motorcycle a couple of years ago. We were 50 miles from home when I realized I forgot to stash a little cash just in case. We had 15 bucks cash between us. We had a nice trip, stayed in motels, ate out 3 times a day, brought pop, beer, snacks and everything else you would need or want. We even rented a car for a day to site see in Grand Junction with our son who lived their at the time. When we got home we still had 6 bucks cash. I did have a ATM card but never used it. Did it all with a credit card which I normally do anyway although normally have some cash just in case and do use cash for anything under 5-10 bucks.
 
Mark,

You should be very thankful that the pilot didn't put that airliner down at a non scheduled airport and put you off. I had a friend that had a seizure on board a flight between Detroit and Palm Beach and they had to make a medical emergency stop in Macon, Georga and was presented a bill for over $43,000.00. I do not know how it was settled but interfering with a flight crew has some severe consequences.
 
I like to have a drink now and then but I never drink while flying. Nothing like getting a belly full of beer and have the plane go through 20 minutes of turbulence. Saw that happen to the guy in the seats across the isle from me once. You think a plane seat is uncomfortable, try puking on yourself and the two people sitting beside and then sitting in awkward silence for another hour. Things get ****ed uncomfortable then. That and I need to be somewhat sharp when going through an airport - I do it so seldom that throwing a few drinks in the mix might make things a lot more exciting than they need to be.
 
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