Not really. I’ve bartended (and managed bartenders) in this state for twenty years. The only binding thing is the 2am cutoff, and that means no one is allowed to have ANY alcohol at 2am. For that reason, most places call last call 15–30 minutes before 2. Nothing out of the norm there, but he absolutely could have sold me one more beer at 1:40 saying that it has to be finished by 1:59.

Credit card minimums are a local business thing. Every credit card transaction costs the business either ~3% of the total, or some minimum amount of it's below a certain number.

Ten dollar minimum just means that they don't make enough profit on a sale smaller than ten to be worth it given the minimum charge per transaction.

Same way speeding in your car isn't allowed.

Cannot wait for the new payment systems being worked on. Visa and mastercard are going to lose out on their biggest bloc because of greed and stupid voters.

$10 is the amount generally outlined as the acceptable minimum. What information are you relying on? Can you provide a source for that?

It’s against the credit card company tos because the credit card companies want to force small businesses to lose money on small transactions or not have the option to take cards.

So ratting to Visa helps Visa and hurts the small business. Great job! With friends like you who needs enemies! Just bring fucking cash ffs.

There are european countries that have made the practice illegal.
There are countries that said you should always, without extra costs, allow digital payment.
Funny enough, they bypassed cards then and went for things like payconiq, wero, apple pay, google wallet, ... to bypass the costs of card readers haha

Shota, cota, wota

You're not paying for the booze, you're paying for space and time in that spot. It's so expensive to keep the doors open. All the licencing and insurance. Wages, rent. It all adds up so quickly. I worked at a modest sized place for a few years and got to know the business side of it. It was at least 7k a week through the till to break even.

Edit: to all the bar haters out there; find a spot without TVs or blaring music. You may be surprised by how nice it can be just chilling and having some drinks. So many bars are just sensory overload. A nice quiet drinking hole is worth its weight in gold.

I wish a bottle lasted me a whole week