Originally Posted by
sheffield hatter
I've had to use cash a few times recently. Some pubs have a lower limit for cards and one pint (or one half!) is below their limit, although plenty of other pubs are happy to accept a card for £1.70. At one recently there was a £10 lower limit, and when I asked (in a friendly rather than challenging way) I was told that the card machine operator charges 0.75% on each transaction. Now that doesn't seem a lot to me - a £20 transaction would attract a charge of 15p. My pint of Peak Bakewell Best Bitter 4.2% was £4.10 (and worth every penny, I can tell you), so the charge would have been 3p or thereabouts - is that such a deal-breaker for them that they're going to make a fuss about it to every customer like me having just a pint? I should have said "charge me £4.20 and put it on my card"!