Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Apologies if I’m duplicating a recent thread here (think I might be).

Anyway, there’s plenty of chippys up here and one of them has always been cash only payments ever since I moved up here four and a half years ago. However driving into Treorchy just now, I saw two more with cash only signs being shown - both of them have accepted cards payments in the past I believe.

Seems that the cost of living crisis is enabling cash to make a comeback - maybe something good could come out of this mess.
You'd have to travel a long way to find a Chinese takeaway which accepts card payments and I've never found too many chippys who do either. Maybe those who have aspirations to be small restaurants.

The fact is that for smaller businesses the merchant charges have always been excessive and for the most part of course it's Joe Public who pays for them. Chippys and takeaway businesses have often felt they are able to get away without card payments because punters will find the cash when desperate for a bite to eat. Other types of business are not able to follow suit.

Like you said good news all round.