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Ordering your food and drink in Coffee Shop to be told afterwards they don't accept cash!

Thejollygiant

Today after I was visiting my local city centre for occupational health injection I decided to treat myself like I normally do when visiting the City Centre and I always try the latest openings or places with intresting food, So I decide today to try a new coffee shop called the Black Sheep, went in and ordered my drink and a waffle and when I was paying the server noticed I was paying with Cash so she said we don't take cash as we don't have any tills which is silly idea as the company is technically discriminating against people with Disabilities so this led me to become distreseed and very warey of the public and other cafes/resturants and coffee shops which made me even more stress because I had the fear that the same thing would happen again. 

Then I decided to try the tryed and tested places and that didn't work because I was distressed and unsettled so I end up coming home disappointed, stressed and hungry from what would of been a treat 

This going cashless thing is going to get worst in the long run and more and more people with disabilties are going to be discrimated against even more in future. Have at least one till taking cash otherwise we will be come hungry and very isolated if this happens. 

This experience has comfirmed the reasons why I hate my local city centre. 

  • I had the opposite experience yesterday - Hastings Castle only takes cash... I rarely carry cash these days.

    As HollowMan said 'Cash only' is far more frequent than 'card only'.

    I don't see the link between 'cashless' and 'discrimination against people with disabilities'.

    The argument about 'lost your card' doesn't stack up - you could just as easily lose your cash, the difference being if you have a card you can pretty much always get cash but if you had cash you couldn't use it to get a replacement card 'on demand'.

    If homeless people had access to a bank account and card it would make them safer as it would be harder to steal from them, also you could easily donate if they provided account details.

    Face it, cash is going to be relegated to 'off-grid' transactions in the near future. They'll get rid of cheques as soon as the older generation (the main cheque writers) die off...

    See this from the BBC News website:

    Chequebooks were due to be phased out in the UK by 2018, but those plans were scrapped, because no viable alternatives for the elderly and vulnerable were in place (most British cheque users are aged over 65).

  • in reply to Thejollygiant

    have them on the front door as u dont even have to enter

  • I get stressed anyway at these places but I wonder if theres been a spate of cash register related crime? Our local debenhams wouldnt let us try clothing on as theyve had too many people stealing. I was so stressed in the first place and hate shopping. Our world is a terrible one sadly

  • in reply to Roswell

    We need to do launch some sticker program out there where it a simple sign saying 

    We Welcome Cash and Card Payments or Sorry we only take Card Payments that way people with disabilties and confidence issue can move on to find other shop without getting distressed 

  • This is a really bad thing. It discriminates against homeless people who can only usually pay with cash and sometimes people have lost their card, so then they are expected to not eat or drink?