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It blows our hivemind that the United States doesnāt use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).
Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of Americaās little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:
The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram
[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]
ISO 216 A series papers formats
AO
A1
A3
A5
A7
A6
Et.
A4
Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. Weāre not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.
Iām in Australia and itās a mix. Some places add the surcharge to the bill and can use cc for as low as$1, some donāt and donāt accept payments thatās less than 2 peopleās meals ( and also donāt accept split bills).
But itās very very hard to find a place thatās cash only. It comes to mind empanadas, so I got a laugh at the other reply about tamales.
I mean charging the vendor a processing fee, not the vendor charging the customer for the credit card fee. Thatās actually illegal in the US, though businesses can offer a cash discount, they canāt charge fees for using cards if they accept them. When I ran my business our card handler charged 3. something percent on every transaction with card, higher for credit than debit.
