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More Restaurants Want Your Money But Not Your Cash
Fast-paced customer base has more food chains seeing the appeal of plastic.
Ingredients at a Chopt location
Source: Chopt
Cash may be king for customers with a wallet full of bills, but a growing number of restaurants find accepting paper money just isn’t worth it anymore.
Starbucks Corp. operates one cashless store in Seattle. Sweetgreen, a seasonal salad spot with about 100 U.S. locations, went cash-free last year. Fast-casual chain Chopt Creative Salad Co., which piloted its first cashless restaurant in January, will have six in Manhattan before the new year.
