[Blue_Nose]

This is something I've noticed over the past little while, and I'm wondering if it's actually an established protocol.

Whenever I buy a coffee with a $20 bill, I almost never receive a $10 bill with my change anymore - it's always two $5s. At first I would assume it was because they ran out of $10s, but unless every shop I go to never has $10 bills, I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

Is this a conspiracy to give patrons smaller change which they'd be more willing to spend on small items like, say, MORE COFFEE?? I don't think I have any preference in avoiding breaking larger bills, but I know some do, and I'm guessing this is the reason I get all this small change.

Anyone else noticing this?

[Indelible]

i usually pay for coffee with a toonie, unless i eat food too....

[HyperionTheEvil]

Blue_Nose wrote:

This is something I've noticed over the past little while, and I'm wondering if it's actually an established protocol.

Whenever I buy a coffee with a $20 bill, I almost never receive a $10 bill with my change anymore - it's always two $5s. At first I would assume it was because they ran out of $10s, but unless every shop I go to never has $10 bills, I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

Is this a conspiracy to give patrons smaller change which they'd be more willing to spend on small items like, say, MORE COFFEE?? I don't think I have any preference in avoiding breaking larger bills, but I know some do, and I'm guessing this is the reason I get all this small change.

Anyone else noticing this?

If its a conspiracy Calgary123 will know all about it, you shoud ask him

[bossdog]

I just miss coffee shops. We have a ton, and I mean a TON, of caffe bars heres. One thing that I hate is that you can not get a) filtered or drip coffee in any of them and b) you can't get anything to go. I am getting used to the cappacino with an espresso shot on the side though

[Mr_Canada old]

It's a Canadian thing to have lots of small change in the pockets.

You come home, empty your pockets, and then the glass table starts cracking under the weight.

It could be a conspiricy. The Smaller amount of money could be used to buy coffee easier. So yeah, that could be true.

They could also be getting excess small-change aswell, say, 20 people come buy coffee with 5's as small change, while 5 buy it with a 10 probably buying more than coffee, and then 5 buy some with a 20 buying wither more than coffee or as a last choice with current change in wallet.

The cashier looks at the money when she opens the cash register.

Let's see.... Waaay to many 5's....

Tries te get rid of a few so she won't have it overload and to try and equalise the amount of money in each slot in order to maximize the possible amount of moeny you can filt the register with.

*shrug*

[Firecat]

Mr_Canada wrote:

It's a Canadian thing to have lots of small change in the pockets.

You come home, empty your pockets, and then the glass table starts cracking under the weight.

It could be a conspiricy. The Smaller amount of money could be used to buy coffee easier. So yeah, that could be true.

They could also be getting excess small-change aswell, say, 20 people come buy coffee with 5's as small change, while 5 buy it with a 10 probably buying more than coffee, and then 5 buy some with a 20 buying wither more than coffee or as a last choice with current change in wallet.

The cashier looks at the money when she opens the cash register.

Let's see.... Waaay to many 5's....

Tries te get rid of a few so she won't have it overload and to try and equalise the amount of money in each slot in order to maximize the possible amount of moeny you can filt the register with.

*shrug*

Well reasoned, practical and most likely accurate.

Waiters take care to give you change appropriate for a tip while trying not to be too obvious about it. But coffee shops don't look for $5 tips. Mr_ Canada's got it, I think.

[ziggy]

HyperionTheEvil wrote:

Blue_Nose wrote:

This is something I've noticed over the past little while, and I'm wondering if it's actually an established protocol.

Whenever I buy a coffee with a $20 bill, I almost never receive a $10 bill with my change anymore - it's always two $5s. At first I would assume it was because they ran out of $10s, but unless every shop I go to never has $10 bills, I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

Is this a conspiracy to give patrons smaller change which they'd be more willing to spend on small items like, say, MORE COFFEE?? I don't think I have any preference in avoiding breaking larger bills, but I know some do, and I'm guessing this is the reason I get all this small change.

Anyone else noticing this?

If its a conspiracy Calgary123 will know all about it, you shoud ask him

It's probably Bush's fault.

[stratos]

Firecat wrote:

Mr_Canada wrote:

It's a Canadian thing to have lots of small change in the pockets.

You come home, empty your pockets, and then the glass table starts cracking under the weight.

It could be a conspiricy. The Smaller amount of money could be used to buy coffee easier. So yeah, that could be true.

They could also be getting excess small-change aswell, say, 20 people come buy coffee with 5's as small change, while 5 buy it with a 10 probably buying more than coffee, and then 5 buy some with a 20 buying wither more than coffee or as a last choice with current change in wallet.

The cashier looks at the money when she opens the cash register.

Let's see.... Waaay to many 5's....

Tries te get rid of a few so she won't have it overload and to try and equalise the amount of money in each slot in order to maximize the possible amount of moeny you can filt the register with.

*shrug*

Well reasoned, practical and most likely accurate.

Waiters take care to give you change appropriate for a tip while trying not to be too obvious about it. But coffee shops don't look for $5 tips. Mr_ Canada's got it, I think.

Not just that but if they have a money drop system to get rid of big bills a $10 counts as a big bill for most places so they might take that 20 and the couple 10's in the drawer and drop em into the safe. Thats what they do at 7-elevens at least.