Steak & Shake is cash only?????? WTF!!!!

[chrisjor]

So I sit down in Steak & Shake and I'm waiting for the waitress when I realize that I only have $3 in my money clip. No biggie, I have my debit card and several credit cards with me. Waitress comes up and I ask for a diet cola, and since she was a hottie, I make small talk about how embarassing it would have been if they did not take my debit card cause I did not have time to go to ATM and did not have any cash on me. She says "well you shouldn't be embarrased...but we don't take credit cards, we are cash only. There is a big sign on the front door that says just that." So I muster up all of the courage and dignity I have left...I look this hot lil' babe right in the eye and I says...D'OH!!!!! Then I head quickly for the door. :Q


I had to go to Frisch's Big Boy for lunch........I'm home now and I still have not gone to ATM. I left the $3 as a tip to the waitress at Frisch's.

 

[BDawg]

Mine in Greensboro accepts Visa/Mastercard.

 

[aphex]

Some S&S's take Debit cards now, but at a $.69 charge...

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Same as Waffle House. Damn them.

 

[Freejack2]

They seem to vary, where my wife's parent's live they have 2 of them in the same city, one of them accepts credit cards, yet the other one in the same city doesn't.
Go figure.

 

[rudder]

yeh and their crap is not cheap. With my visa debit card I rarely carry cash anymore.

 

[DeafeningSilence]

I've never seen one that accepts anything but ca$h.

 

[Aves]

I never carry cash so I wouldn't eat there I guess.

 

[dmcowen674]

So much for the plastic world folks, due to the rising costs ( FEEs) of doing business for merchants via the plastic electronic system, many more businesses are going cash only everyday.

 

[Farbio]

the steak n shakes in tallahassee take debit and credit, but the ones in orlando are only cash, while the ones in gainesville are cash and debit only....weird how they vary so much

 

[CPA]

IIRC, Steak and Shake is a franchise, which would explain the different methods of payment acceptance.

 

[newbiepcuser]

Isn't it dangerous for any business to deal with cash only?

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: newbiepcuser
Isn't it dangerous for any business to deal with cash only?

Isn't that how most fast-food place are?

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
Same as Waffle House. Damn them.

mmmm Waffle House...I wish we had those around here!

 

[newbiepcuser]

When I worked in fast foods for Disneyland, we were constantly doing cash drops for "Bank of Disney" cause the thought of being robbed.

 

[Dhawk]

I travel a lot for my job and I am in a lot of different cities. What I have found is, taking plastic with most restaurants is an individual market decision. I noticed that the mid to larger progressive cities tend to have more restaurants that take credit cards (including fast food places).

 

[RossGr]

Sure would like to see Stake & Shake expand off the east coast. Good stuff.


Pardon to the mid easters who object to being classified as east coast, but come on.. look at a map.

 

[thawolfman]

None of these places on the East coast

 

[kt]

Talk about embarrasement like that.. well, we went to this Taiwanese restaurant and it's pretty expensive. We didn't see the CASH ONLY sign they had. It was blocked by a bunch of plants. Let's just say our bill was around $300. Luckily, my bank's ATM is about 2 minutes walk from the restaurant. So, while my friends were still eating I snuck out and went to the ATM. Jebus, I don't understand how a restaurant that know people will rake up that kind of tap doesn't take CC. Needless to say, I never went back to that restaurant after. I still walk by their sometime and that CASH ONLY sign is still there!

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: RossGr
Sure would like to see Stake & Shake expand off the east coast. Good stuff.


Pardon to the mid easters who object to being classified as east coast, but come on.. look at a map.

we've got a lot of steak and shakes here in indiana, i thought we were midwest

 

[HappyPuppy]

CC's cost the establishment money. That means less profit or higher prices. Take your pick.