Credit & Debit Cards Get In on Fast Food Game, Big Time
Have you noticed the amount of fast food joints that now take credit cards and debit cards, and many of them with no minimum purchase, as was common in the past, before the “age of the debit card” almost forceably made them accept these highly popular forms of payment.
These days, fast food restaurants realize that people really use their debit cards a lot, so much so that that don’t even carry around cash very much any more. Rather, they use their debit cards as both a cash supply and as another form of credit, only they know there is a finite limit to that credit based on how much they hold in their related checking account, unless they are millionaires!
I’ve seen the Credit and Debit cards accepted signs now on almost every fast food restaurant, including the immensely popular McDonald’s, Arby’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, and many many others that are kind of on the sidelines in popularity, but nonetheless offer their customers the convenience of paying by debit or credit instead of having to lug around cash with them for the priveledge of getting a bite to eat on the go. No doubt fast food restaurants have seen this help their business. How many times have you really wanted to order a Big Mac value meal, only to find you had no cash?
