Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash

Re:Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash by grandalf on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:57PM (#14755456)

I dealt with this issue as a young boy when trying to pay for some candy at the local bodega with a large sack of pennies. The clerk simply refused my business.

I was outraged and asked some lawyers in my family to look into it. Turns out the business had no obligation to accept the transaction. "Legal Tender" means that the currency may be legally used as currency, not that it must be accepted when offered/tendered.

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Re:Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:05PM (#14755561)

There is a difference between accepting a purchase transaction offered and accepting payment for a debt which has been occurred. The former is a matter of whether a contract is formed at immediately fulfilled and the latter of whether an existing contract is violated in a manner that the State will concern itself with.

Restaurants sometimes operate in the former mode (fast-food and fast-casual) and sometimes in the latter (full table service).

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Re:Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash by grandalf on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:57AM (#14761233)

I've never thought of it that way before in terms of a contract. Very interesting.

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Re:Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash by CupOfJava on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:03PM (#14755524)

Your situation is similar. However, did you consume the candy before paying? Or maybe restaurants will ask customers to pay first if they use this.

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