/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9979056

>authenticity

Yeah, because you either live in Hong Kong or eat nothing but American fast food.

>>9979056
sunday buffet, every time

If your favorite Chinese restaurant stops serving virgin boy piss eggs, leave immediately

>>9979056
Kek

When you don't get diarrhea after going to your favorite Mexican restaurant anymore

>>9979056
>when they haven't raised their prices for over 4 months

I assume any place that doesn't take credit cards is operating a shady operation and is skirting laws. I would refuse to eat there. Also who the fuck uses cash in 2018?

>>9979136
You know businesses are charged anywhere from 3-5% of the sale total when paid for by card, right? Fur a small business that's a lot of money especially when they're already operating on a very small profit like the local bakery here.

>>9979157
2.9% is the high end for Visa/Mastercard, most businesses will get under 2.5% based on volume. And that small percent means almost nothing if you're now getting more customers because of it.

>>9979056
>when they stop employing trafficked illegals, it's time to find another place

That's how fucking stupid you sound. I'm giving you a 6/10 because on most other days I wouldn't have responded to this shitty bait.

>>9979056
So acceptance of credit cards is a sign that they're CUTTING costs?
Do you know how stupid you sound, you piece of shit? Don't you realized that accepting credit costs MORE money, and makes the restaurant more accessible to the affluent in the 21st century?
Never post again, 0/10 thread you filthy fucking mongoloid

chipotle is good though

>>9979222
Accepting cards means you lose fewer customers. There are a couple of cash-only joints near my work and I go to them maybe 2-3x a year because it's a pain in the ass to go withdraw some pieces of paper from the nearest paper-dispensery that doesn't deduct funds for having the wrong bank account, and when the meal is done you have a bunch of random bills that are useless except for tipping baristas and stuff.

>ameripoors unironically can't pay with credit cards

LITERALLY worse than africa that's not even third world the place is like a fourth world shithole oh no no no

>op post is clearly sarcasm
>hardly even bait
>everyone stumbles over themselves to rage reply

jesus christ I miss when 4chan wasn't entirely underage

>>9980511
guy who wrote this pasta here
when I posted it originally I got a 30 day all-boards ban and all my posts were deleted
glad it’s at least getting traction as pasta

>>9980527
surely you didnt get a ban that hard for THAT right?? I've only got 24 hour single bans for doing much worse shit

>not scanning a QR code and paying through WeChat
gay

I hope Casa Mia never comes to this.

>>9980527
it's pretty good, man, pretty good
the last sentence especially had me cackling

>>9980527
He’s doing it for free

When your thai restaurant stops serving the happy ending menu

>>9979056
If the lines get shorter at your surinam roti shop

>>9980552
a while back of the mods became enraged at my posts and started handing out draconian bans for basically anything I did no matter how trivial. it got so out of control I had to move to reddit for a while, I've only really been back for about 6 months.

here's the thing about reddit - people get pissy about it because of voting, but the fact is it's basically impossible to get a sitewide ban just by having wrong opinions. I've pissed off mods on various boards and gotten banned but you can just move to another board... I mean, sub. I've also appealed bans and gotten the bans lifted within hours. I tried appealing a 30 day "I hate you for having wrong opinions" ban here, after waiting several days of course, and the appeal was denied.

>>9981068
>download our app and skip the line!
No thanks

>>9979056
You. Dumb. Cunt.

>>9979056
>Want a quick meal
>Have to wait three days for chip and pin to go through

>>9979101
My local mexican place has menus that are legit 5+ years old. They're too cheap to replace them so they haven't raised prices.

>>9979310
>doesn't deduct funds for having the wrong bank account
Wait some countries still have fees for withdrawing from random atms? Lel glad I don't live in a 3rd world shitholes where you can't use your debit card anywhere without fees.

>>9984341
Yeah some places advertise "$1 ATM" because that's supposed to be a good deal

But a debit card is not the same as withdrawing from an ATM, also debit cards are for poorfags here with no self control, normal people use credit cards because they're safer and we get paid 1% to 5% depending on the card and the type of transaction. This amount is subsidized by the poor people who don't use credit cards

Basically cash here is only for tipping the bathroom attendant and buying drugs unless you're like an illegal immigrant or something and even illegals now use these shitty pre-paid cards because their employers don't want to handle cash and that's how they get paid

>>9984365
debit cards are supposed to be a replacement for checks
it's linked to your checking account
in the olden days, you'd issue slips of paper promising that you had at least X amount of money waiting for you in that account

only idiots take out a fucking microloan to pay for lunch

>>9984399
So you pay in advance for all your meals?

>>9979136
In New York City lots of businesses are still cash only. And not just immigrant places in the outer boroughs. For example the Ten Bells, a pretty well regarded wine and tapas place on the LES is cash only, which is kind of weird for a place where checks easily top the hundred dollar mark. There is an ATM inside, though.

>>9984420
And they probably get a cut from that ATM. So instead of them paying a fee to take credit cards they make a customer pay fees to eat there. So fuck that.

>>9984403
what? no, you idiot.

i get my food, consume it, and then pay for it with my own money.

>>9984903
>i get my food, consume it, and then pay for it with my own money.
So in other words, the restaurant owner extends you an interest-free loan. Why are you eating on credit? Why aren't you responsible, anon?

>>9984961
True this, you should pay immediately or you're a dirtbag juden attempting to scam an hours interest off the restaurant. Pure filth in violation of all kinds of torah usury prohibitions.

I've been to a bar that did not accept cash. I only had cash and had no idea at the time. So the bill came and I explained this, and they told me to go across the street to Walgreen's and buy a prepaid card so I could pay. I left and never came back.

>>9985214
I don't believe this story because no person age 21 or over doesn't have any type of card at all.

>>9985264
I also don't have a phone, leave me alone.

>>9985360

>>9985054
I only eat at Subway.

>>9984791
Or you could just withdraw money in advance

>>9985617
I'm not a fan of carrying several hundred dollars in cash on me at all times. If someone steals my credit card they can do dick all with it.

>>9985633
Why all times? If you know you’re going to a cash only place bring cash

>>9980552
I've copped a week all boards ban for posting "copyrighted material".
it was a webm of 2 girls kissing on /gif/

>>9982559
Here you just ignore bans by resetting your router. Maybe you should move back to rəddit

Peter Luger doesn’t take cards

>>9979136
>Falling for the plastic jew

>>9979056

Are credit cards some weird new thing that has just been launched where you live?

>>9986222
>Zero annual fees
>Pay no interest since paid in full each month
>Get anywhere 2-5% back in rewards depending on the card
So what exactly am I falling for? Free money?

>>9979056
Excellent post

>>9986283
Guess who the card companies make you pay for your cash back.

Hint: it's the restaurants

>>9986756
The restaurant is still charging me that even if I use cash so why not get it back? If they gave me a 3% cash discount then I'd consider it.

>>9986771
Visa and Mastercard will turn off their card terminals if they give discounts to cash or debit customers. This kind of practice (punishment for encouraging other types of payment) is only illegal in a few countries and very much legal in the United States.

>>9986775
And I'm aware of that, it only compounds my point. If I'm paying their fees regardless I'm going to use the method that gives me money back.

>>9986756
hint: people spend more money when paying with card than with cash.

restaurants that are cash only not only lose customers, they make less money on the customers that they have

>>9986781
>people spend more money when paying with card than with cash

>>9986887
>haha anything involving money is the jews

>>9986124
that probably works on /v/ or /pol/

/ck/ is still a relatively slow board and if a mod hates you they can just look for IP addresses from the same range

>>9979056
If your restaurant does not have a gender neutral bathroom, leave immediately.

>>9986897
Woah, I never thought about it like that but you're actually right.

Stop using cards. Pay with cash.

>>9979056

When a small/out-of-the-way place gets featured on the news or reviewed in a magazine, leading to an influx of people who don't give a shit about the atmosphere but want to be trendy which then always leads to price hiking and portion cutting.

Not the restaurant's fault but when a local/ethnic joint is in an area that is undergoing gentrification and they have to cut quality/raise prices to stay in business

>>9987439
>they have to cut quality/raise prices to stay in business
Cutting quality when gentrification is happening is suicidal. Well off people are way less price sensitive, and way more quailty sensitive, than poors.

>>9979056
They still use cash in the US?

>Muh fine dining experience
>Muh authentic cuisine
>Muh ethnic food culture
Christ. Nu-Males plz go.

>>9988250
Poor people do.

>>9979056
>Chipotle
Chicken burrito
White rice
Black beans
Pico
Red hot
Cheese
Lettuce

and would you mix it up, please. Thank you

>>9979169
Not if your profit margins are below 2.5 percent you're not. Gun stores operate on such a razor thing margin with new firearm sales that they have to charge people the fees if they don't want to take a loss, for instance.

>>9988435
That's one extreme edge case scenarios. Restaurants should have margins in the 20-40% range depending on the type.

>>9984399
>only idiots take out a fucking microloan to pay for lunch
You know you don't get interest if you pay the balance before the due date, right? And you get cash back or other rewards along with building credit.

>>9986756
Okay? Why the fuck do I care about the restaurant's profit margin if I'm legally getting a better deal? Businesses aren't your friend, anon.

>>9988441
>Should
Restaurants are the number one riskiest business venture. That 2.5 percent could be the difference between making your payment and getting foreclosed in your first year or two.

>>9986775
i wonder how gas stations have that "cash price/credit price", in that case?

>>9984240
the ones around here just tape a piece of paper with the updated price handwritten with a sharpie over the old price.

>>9987468
>way more quality sensitive

Not with ethnic foods they don't eat otherwise, they are Sodosopa-type trendster dopes

>not paying with raiblocks

>>9979056
>buying printed menus
>not charging extra for napkins
>investing in credit card systems
>cost cutting