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Old 07-10-2022, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BamaBoy451 View Post
The most I've paid for a service fee for using a credit card at any of the restaurants around here was 37 cents regardless of the amount of the bill. To my understanding restaurants used to absorb that as a cost of doing business but during and after covid and the present economic situation, they no longer can.
If a restaurant claims that they need extra money for credit card purchases, I think they are lying. It has long been proven that credit card customers spend substantially more money than cash customers. When McDonald's started accepting credit cards, their average purchase amount increased by almost 50 percent. If restaurants stopped accepting credit cards, many of them would go out of business.