Jack-in-the-Box
Posted by fivedollargold 9 years, 9 months ago to Business
This is admittedly trivial, but $5Au went to the drive through at a fast food restaurant last night and the order amounted to $6.03. Fivedollargold gave the young lady at the window three pennies, and realizing that she probably needed small bills at such a late hour, also handed her three $2 bills. She refused to accept them! She claimed that she is not allowed to take them without a manager's approval and no manager was on duty. Hmm. How can a restaurant, even a small one, not have a designated manager? Question: have any of you run into this problem spending $2 bills? By the way, she seemed like a nice girl, so $5Au didn't argue, just handed her a twenty. She smiled with apparent relief that $5Au wasn't going to give her a hard time.
I'm strange.
When I was the international editor at Coin World (1999-2000), a project left undone was to take 2-cent, 20-cent, and 3-cent coins -- and a photographer -- and try to buy at some local stores. That is prohibitively expensive unless you want to tell 100,000 paid subscribers, or really need the thigh-slapping belly-laughing moment.
I wonder if she thought they were counterfeit?
As to the spending the $2 bills, yes on the few occasions I tried, I too had difficulties over it.