Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cape Cod, MA USA
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Oh, they don't take Amex -- How much do you care?
An emerging local trend here on Cape Cod is for restaurants to take all cards except Amex -- it's not to make a protest, but more like a quiet acknowledgement that nowadays everyone who has an Amex also has another card [and, I suppose, that the Amex fees are high].
So here are the questions -- honest answers please --
What thoughts cross your mind about the restaurant you're in if you have to put away the Amex and pull out something else to pay the check?
Assume you enjoyed the meal. What about next time you go out -- what do you think about going back to the place that takes Visa/MC etc.?
Any insurmountable problem if the meal is a business expense and you can't use the Amex?
I own a restaurant, and I'm not sure I'll join this bandwagon, but we did drop I-Dine in 2004, with no effect on business. Also, I don't observe that guest checks paid by Amex are any higher than checks paid by other cards. (and by the way, who are those oddballs with Discover cards?)
Last edited by gsilliman; Sep 6, 2005 at 8:40 pm