You’re offering legal tender in exchange for the product you ordered. If they choose not to accept it because of a shitty, classist policy, that’s their choice.

A monthly fee and a fee to load money onto the card are quite a lot considering these cards are designed for low-income people. It’s still a rip-off.

It’s fraud. I mean

Then what is it? You owe money. You haven’t “dashed”.

Yeah, and they’re rip-offs that charge fees for just about everything; it’s worse than payday loans. Also, most people without access to banking accounts are in that situation not because they don’t understand the advantages of having a bank account, but because they’re unable to get one.

Come to the future, where a few large corporations make money on your every purchase, influence the things you do purchase through moral policing of smaller companies all while leaking your information to thieves but hey they offer fraud monitoring so I guess feel better or something.

Also your concept of socialism is…

2) Be ready to walk out and get lunch elsewhere. Worse case scenario is they take a small hit for their stupid, classist policy and maybe that contributes in a small way to a reevaluation of that debt.

Millions of Americans have no access to credit cards or even bank accounts. “Card only” places can go fuck themselves.

Actually you’re wrong. I’ve had transactions denied for being suspicious before a single cent ever came out of my account. That’s exactly what happened when my card got skimmed. Someone tried to use my card number to spend over $300 at a retail store on the other side of the state from me. The transaction was…

You are aware that many people get payed cash for their employment? Anyone that works in the service industry & relies on tips as part of their income has cash on their person.

1. Buying goods is not a debt.

You kind of taking the wrong message from this story. Regardless of what other forms of currency he possessed, he only obligated to have one. The cash money. I’m not under the impression that he was trying to pull a fast one. He just wanted to use his $10 bill for lunch and they said no. So he was going to leave. The…

Doesn’t change the fact that our society has an accepted form of currency. We have designated bank accounts and cards as a pass-through for that currency. No one is under any obligation to use a card for anything as that card by nature is just a substitute for green paper that you don’t have on your person. Cash…

There’s a difference between ‘being difficult’ and ‘being made into a difficulty’. It sounds like the restaurant created a problem that they didn’t need to have in the first place.

Cool, thanks for explaining how a till works.

Based on my wife’s near decade-in-retail you would lose that wager.

...Because there’s no cash in the register to steal.

The “no cash” policy is a way to weed out certain undesirables with a lower risk of incurring any pesky discrimination lawsuits.

I hand my ten dollar bill (cash money) to the checkout person. The response? “We don’t accept cash, only cards.”

Yeah, they pretty much had me at "alien helps vikings fight alien." Or more acurately at "alien…vikings…fight." Throwing Ron Perlman is just kind of a bonus.