soccerdad72
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I know we've had a dozen different threads on cashless businesses as well as credit card fees, but I had a new one (for me) pop up last week.
I was in New Orleans for a work conference and my wife and I went to go get dinner one night. The host stand had a prominent sign saying that they're a cashless restaurant (no big deal), but what surprised me was when we got the menus, at the bottom, it mentioned that there was a 3% fee for using a credit card.
Now I've paid that fee hundreds of times now (I don't usually carry a lot of cash), so I know that's just a cost being passed along these days, but if you've made yourself a cashless business AND you're not giving patrons a way to avoid the fee associated with credit card usage, should that be legal? If nothing else at this point, why not just build 3% extra into the menu items?
I was in New Orleans for a work conference and my wife and I went to go get dinner one night. The host stand had a prominent sign saying that they're a cashless restaurant (no big deal), but what surprised me was when we got the menus, at the bottom, it mentioned that there was a 3% fee for using a credit card.
Now I've paid that fee hundreds of times now (I don't usually carry a lot of cash), so I know that's just a cost being passed along these days, but if you've made yourself a cashless business AND you're not giving patrons a way to avoid the fee associated with credit card usage, should that be legal? If nothing else at this point, why not just build 3% extra into the menu items?