I think that can put them in an off spot legally, depending on their local liquor board. I understand the bartenders reluctance.

If imposing a minimum credit card purchase was not allowed, how could they impose a ten dollar minimum for credit card purchases??

Visa and Mastercard are horrible companies. For smaller businesses.

1. If your transaction numbers are low they charge a flat + percentage So like 0.55 EUR + 1.2%. Stores in this tier generally try and keep a minimum spend, because you buy 1 EUR and mastercard charges 56c. From 44c you have to pay for product and make a profit. It's stupid.

2. You can opt for plans that don't have flat fee, so it's like 2.25% percentage only. Useful if you move a lot of small value items like a small convinience store.

3. But if you're a chain of convinience like SPAR, they can get custom deals. SPAR had a tiered deal, transactions below 1 EUR, they charge 0.4%, below 4 EUR it was 0.9%, below 10 EUR 1.5% and, above 1.9% This would never be possible for smaller shops.

4. Every transaction enriches some foreign country as they take the cut. Homegrown system like wero should be dominant, cheap and stays in local economy.

Also I'd like to note, I've been out of touch of Europe for a while so my opinions and knowledge might be dated, but this is solved problem in ASIA, PayNow, Prompt Pay, UPI etc exist and are fantastic solutions for small businesses.

It isn’t illegal, but it’s against the TOS for every major cc company. If you see this shit you should report it.

? I encounter this in Europe regularly.

Nothing to do with being European. I see this occasionally at small businesses here in Austria, such as tobacco stores.

Indeed it is in most of Europe, I think.

I did buy something in a takeaway a few years ago and it was like 20p below the minimum, and I just went "charge 20p extra then" and it seemed to break the other customers minds. Never occurred to them you can do that, rather than asking for an extra £2 of stuff you don't want...

it’s almost been an hour… they shota fixed it by now

Ya drink the shota you futa bill.

Lol I almost did.

bars are a ripoff. $4 a drink during happy hour, for the cost of one good evening I can just buy a bottle and drink for a week.

chocolate all over face, slurring from insanely high blood sugar I'll tell you when I've had enough

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I could see it being a way to get rid of flavored liqueurs that have been sitting around

From this I feel like you are afraid to be in oublic because youightdrink too much and sodomise yourself with a pool cue.

You have said a lot about some very specific things that are not that indictative of real life.

Maybe you just have the wrong bars in your area? I don't go as often as I used to but for me going to a (bistro) bar or a brewpub offers a nice change of scenery. Sitting outside watching other people strolling by gives you something else to talk about. Or when the weather is crap, I'll sit inside sipping some dark craft beer I can't buy in the supermarket.

When we hang out someone's home conversation tends to dry out after an hour or so and we just end up playing board games (which is fine too).

Or maybe you got a local bar with decently priced food, generous drink pours, and regularly attended by friendly neighbors whom you don't always have to chat up but are perfectly lovely when you do