All Kopitiam(food court) outles going CASHLESS!!!
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Is our system so screwed up that we have to introduce so many 'cashless cards' and sow CONFUSION within the public?
Why can't they just expand to include the cash card into this 'innovative' cashless payment? Or adopt easylink like how MAC have done?
Instead of making things easier and straightforward, our people like complicated and intricate methodology. -
cos if u hold their card,ur more likely to eat their foodOriginally posted by BillyBong:Is our system so screwed up that we have to introduce so many 'cashless cards' and sow CONFUSION within the public?
Why can't they just expand to include the cash card into this 'innovative' cashless payment? Or adopt easylink like how MAC have done?
Instead of making things easier and straightforward, our people like complicated and intricate methodology.
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oh.. you didn't know?
management and our gabrament is absolutely smitten with anything "hi-tech"
just throw "hi-tech" into anything and the project will be accepted...
look at the bloody NEL and Circle Line... driverless but it cost so much more for so much less...
go to work.. how much have the IT systems screwed things up and how much have they cost?
there you go..
why? because the management LOVES hi-tech no matter how useless it is... btw, this love of useless hi-tech just screwed SonyOriginally posted by BillyBong:Is our system so screwed up that we have to introduce so many 'cashless cards' and sow CONFUSION within the public?
Why can't they just expand to include the cash card into this 'innovative' cashless payment? Or adopt easylink like how MAC have done?
Instead of making things easier and straightforward, our people like complicated and intricate methodology. -
i think they shd just partner with ezlink card lah
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For all the inconvenience of carrying one more card, who gives a flying damn.Originally posted by FireIce:if u use the card, got 10% off.....
I'd tell them to shove it up where the sun don't shine.
And Bear has a point, either Kopitiam get its act together, or they will suffer the consequences of pissed off customers. -
The establishment has a sordid affair with purely surface whizbangs.
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dosent it encourage people to spend more? with that $5 min ?
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Are they really going to make ALL outlets cashless? ? Hahaha - I am constantly amazed at the levels of stupidity some people display. Why would they think that is a good idea?Originally posted by 39th:Was @ Kopitiam, Bukit Panjang Plaza two days back and they only accept their Kopitiam Prepaid Card for payment and do not accept cash at all.
The min purchase of each card is $5. And this apply to all outlets.
I witnessed a few unhappy customers when I was there. There are some who dropby to get a cup of drink or a fruit and yet they would need to purchase the card before they could do so.
There are also students who only have $3 to have their meal and now they simply can't as their parents are not with them and they do not have enough cash to purchase the card.
As for me, only after I ordered my food then I was told that they do not accept cash.
Imagine the meeting:
A: "I propose we make all our premises cashless! By doing so, we alienate a large chunk of our existing and future customers, and we will probably lose market share too! HOWEVER, we get to boast that we are high tech and that we are very concerned about hygeine. I believe that these will help us win more customers and make more money than ever before."
BOSS: "What a BRILLIANT idea! I am concerned, however, that Singaporeans might not be as understanding as you make them out to be. So what I will do is give those people a 10% discount! We can always increase the prices of our food anyway. Who will notice a 10/15c anyway? "
A: -smirks-
----- To the OP, I hope you walked away without paying for the food. -
Are there any ACsians on the Kopitiam board? I ask because ACS(I) had such a system (w/o the discount). The justification given was that it was more hygenic as sellers will not handle food after handling money.
The difference, of course, is that the students at ACS(I) had no choice. -
But they are not refusing that as a form of payment. All they are asking is for you to pre-pay. Like in Casinos. And at the movies...Originally posted by the Bear:that's stupid actually..
i gotta go ask the legal fellas at the office... because, the notes we have say one thing:
THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER
which supposedly means that under law, you are not allowed to refuse this as a form of payment.. -
If there are, I'll kick them at the next OBA meeting.Originally posted by lwflee:Are there any ACsians on the Kopitiam board? I ask because ACS(I) had such a system (w/o the discount). The justification given was that it was more hygenic as sellers will not handle food after handling money.
The difference, of course, is that the students at ACS(I) had no choice.
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RI used to have that kind of system too. Luckily they realised soon that it's a stupid and inefficient system actually and reverted back to cash.Originally posted by lwflee:Are there any ACsians on the Kopitiam board? I ask because ACS(I) had such a system (w/o the discount). The justification given was that it was more hygenic as sellers will not handle food after handling money.
The difference, of course, is that the students at ACS(I) had no choice. -
That's the whole point. Duh!Originally posted by alexkusu:dosent it encourage people to spend more? with that $5 min ? -
with things going cashless and cards being linked to ur credit card accounts, it makes spending money invisible. u wont "feel the burn in your pocket".
good psychology.... -
i went to bangkok.. they make you buy coupons.. any amount you want.
then u buy yuor food with those coupons..
in JB malaysia, some food courts make you pay first then wait for your cook to be cooked -
Emm..... Going cashless is fine but if just use one card is fine...........So troublesome 2 use so many cards........ 
What is 10% out of a few dollars??? ai yah
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its got to do with hygiene as well
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LoLz...i hope that nvr happens..like that might as well everyone eat at home and at each others houses..aiii...i still prefer cold hard cash..if the card lost den problem big big ah..worse still..you pay 5 bucks for the card and it aint work..faulty..what if the dude refuses to exchange your faulty card ?Originally posted by kalangkabo:
next thing u know, u must sign 1 year membership to eat at food court -
a fat wallet full of cold hard cash looks better than a thin wallet full of useless card..ltr you foget which card is used for what..den fed up..burn the whole wallet ..At least with cash..we dun need to remember its specific use..its all-useful-general-purpose
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have they implemeent at all the kopitiam?
now i always lunch at kopitiam..last Fri go, still paying by cash
my mum yseterady bought 2 liao...coz been asking for it for almost a year...den now got..
first $20 is no discount 1..
after the $20, you can change to a blue card
den got 10% discount -
Yes. It was somewhere near their weekend market right?Originally posted by 105090:i went to bangkok.. they make you buy coupons.. any amount you want.
then u buy yuor food with those coupons..
in JB malaysia, some food courts make you pay first then wait for your cook to be cooked -
Did you copy the scanned image from HWZ?Originally posted by ^tamago^: -
Not all, but in stages I believe.Originally posted by BufPuf:have they implemeent at all the kopitiam?
now i always lunch at kopitiam..last Fri go, still paying by cash
my mum yseterady bought 2 liao...coz been asking for it for almost a year...den now got..
first $20 is no discount 1..
after the $20, you can change to a blue card
den got 10% discount
I've the 'privilleage' to buy their blue card straight. I'm already the holder of one. -
they shld just farking use EZ link la. Macs could do it why cant they.. come out with so many cards.. fark.
