Should a Texas-based pizza chain accept pesos as a form of payment?
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there is nothing wrong with using another countries' foreign currency. As long as the customer has enough money to pay for what they buy.
It is their own business, actually.
This is just another way that the Mexican population is trying to infiltrate the American way.
Bullshiit, now you are creating jobs that discriminate against AMERICAN CITIZENS who only speak English!
Who really cares. As long as they are getting money. It's the owners choice if he wants to accept pesos or not. In the North by the Canadian border they accept Canadian money. And the Mexican government does accept US money.
It's their business. It's not like they're accepting pesos only/. And many places in texas require employees to be bilingual. I don't agree with that part. But it's their business to make decisions like this. Who has the right to critisize something that could bring them more revenue.
its the usa speak english and use the american dollar. i heard about it on a radio station and i was shocked kinda. whole is stupid its the usa use usa money and speak the lang not that hard
No.... does the mexican gvnmt except US money. only if its a bribe or drug money. I wouldnt even know the exchange rates.
no, this is america. our money is what should be spent everywhere. just because someone is from mexico doesn't mean that they should still be spending pesos. they can go to the bank and exchange them for real money.
No, they should only take American dollars. This is America, if the Mexicans dont like it, they should get the hell out.
This is America, not Mexico. Sheesh. I'd stop buying pizzas there and let the pesos pay for the bills.
LMAO, pesos, LOL LOL LOL,
if u r in Roma do it like a roman
if u r here then, use dollars
No. They're still considered part of the UNITED STATES. In the long run, accepting pesos instead of the American dollar it will hurt our economy.
Don't care really. As long as they still take dollars as well they can take payment in rocks and leaves. I do have more of an issue with making it mandatory that employees speak Spanish. We're not willing to make English mandatory but Spanish is okay?
Whatever they want to do. They could accept old chicken bones as payment if they wanted.
I know most places on the boarder in Mexico and even many in lots of other countries accept US dollars, so why not pesos in the US.
Well...it's called free enterprise and thats the way our system works. The Mexican culture will spend money if they are accomodated such as the peso exchange you just described.
Also other services include a check cashing service, and a subculture type aisle in your business. The bottom line is if we do not accomodate them, they themselves will.
I regulary visit these mom and pop type grocery stores and find the products to be suitable for my tastes.
Glass bottled Pepsi's and homestyle cookin.
I see nothing wrong with it.
I live in Michigan, a short ride from Canada, and stores on both sides of the border have been accepting each country's money for decades, without any issue.
I think there's some overreaction on this topic.
They can accept any form of currency they want to, I'm all for free enterprise. But it is illegal to require employees to speak two languages, even the managers. They would lose an EEOC challenge to that policy since it is discriminatory against people who "only" speak English.
It is not uncommon for stores in towns along either border to accept the bordering country's currency.
If its a chain I'm assuming they have guidelines to follow from corporate. But I think that as long as they are paying (in Pesos) the equivalent of the US price there should beno problem. They accept US dollars in businesses in Mexico and some places in Europe and Asia. I dont think that should be an issue.
They can do whatever they want to do. It is a free country based on capitalism. If they made the wrong choice, they will lose customers. Its the same reasoning why the whole country is kissing the butts of the Hispanics, legal or illegal. Selling out the country for votes and money.
First, it is not a pizza chain. It is one restaraunt in an area of DFW highly populated by immigrants from Mexico. Second, the owner is an immigrant himself. He came to the US legally from Mexico when he was a kid and became a citizen using the due process of the INS. Third, he does not require that his employees speak Spanish.
Along the US-Mexico border, many businesses take dollars or pesos as a convenience to the customers. The controversy is not that he is taking pesos (he released the story to the media as a way to get business). The controversy is that DFW is over 300 miles from the border and the practice is seldom done here.
The facts is that a private, American business man used the pesos as a gimmick to get business. Now word-of-mouth is making the story more than it is.
Money all spends the same. You can get it converted to U.S. money, probably for a charge so I'd have to overcharge someone paying in pesos. Next, I'd hate to be the one to carry the 8 billion peso coins that equal one dollar.... but I'd still be getting paid.
First, it's their business so it's THEIR business.
If they accept pesos then more power to them. They could accept sea shells for all I care, as long as the transactions are fair and equal to all people. By that I mean anyone can walk in with pesos whether they are of Mexican decent or not and get the same price. In Europe they accept the dollar and for a long time they preferred the dollar (when it was more valuable-but now the Euro is) and no one complained.
Second, there are MANY MANY MANY jobs out there that require people to be bilingual. In fact at my job we are desperate for more bilingual people to serve our Spanish-speaking population. It would be punishing the business owner who is just trying to cater to their clients to not allow them to hire people that meet the needs of their company and to not accept any form of payment they so desire.
You wouldn't hire someone to be a doctor unless they could do the job and had a medical degree. They wouldn't hire a non-Spanish speaker because they couldn't do the job. As long as they post that as a requirement then they are just being honest, that's what the job requires.
Deal with it.
Sure.
Still legal tender. Guess what when you travel the world many many places take money that is not from their country when get their.
No big deal when you go North people take Canandian money and they take ours.
What is the problem?
Why is this an issue at all?? Even in the midwest we see and use quite a few Canadian quarters...
But maybe the U.S., Canada, and Mexico should form a continental exchange like the Euro in Europe...
sure! and we saw this post a couple days ago.
Should illegal immigrants accept 9mm as form of punishment?
I think it sucks-My wife is Mexican and she thinks it sucks!!This pizza chain will at some point encourage illegal immigration by excepting pesos.I think it is bullshit that they only hire bilingual people but, its their biz-I will not support them --Pizza Patron-- and I think a lot of other people feel the same.This is just a stunt to get publicity for a weak selling pizza joint --so who cares they will not be in biz for long!
No. Should a mexican-based taco chain accept US currency as a form of payment? no no no. This is soooo wrong.
I respectfully disagree with Jesi about the bilingual requirement violating EEOC regulations. The restaurant has a bilingual clientele. The owner can make a case that being bilingual is a reasonable job requirement. An employer doesn't have to hire someone who can't meet those requirements. Think of the guy who sued Hooters, because they wouldn't hire him as a server, and lost. He lost the case because the nature of the business required the servers to have a certain "skill set".
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