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Chipotle Caught Cheating Customers Out Of Pennies
Bank of America may round your bill up and put the change in your savings account, which seems good, but what if your favorite restaurant was tacking extra pennies onto your check - but for their potential benefit?
Chipotle locations around the country have been doing just that. A few confused New Jersey residents were caught off guard recently when they noticed their checks were rounded up to the nearest even amount.
The Star-Ledger's Karen Price Mueller investigated and found that in Chipotle's busiest markets - such as New York City and New Jersey - its registers round down or up depending where the coin falls nearest to a nickel.
A spokesperson for Chipotle told the Star-Ledger that the company employs the practice to curb long lines and create greater efficiency in these high-volume locations."The idea is simply to limit the possible combinations of change on cash transactions to keep the lines moving quickly in high volume areas," spokesman Chris Arnold tells the newspaper. Canada already did away with their penny in March. 4, 2013. The last Canadian penny was minted in May.
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HuffPost High School welcomes a lively, thoughtful debate in the comment section. I pointed out that, No, it was $2.99, and was given the penny. When I mentioned it to a friend, he felt that it was not important, but, darn it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I should at least have been given the option to not take the change, rather than the cashier not offering it. Yes, it is "only a penny",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it is MY penny. I have probably eaten my last meal at Chipotle (not that I eat there often), more because of the annoyance factor than anything else-a bill not adding up correctly would really irk me. (Yes, I know I am being rather absurd, so I will simply avoid the establishment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than get into a silly tizzy.)
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