I wrote about the influence credit cards have on the restaurant industry, and how it increasingly feels like if you don't have the right card, you can't get into the cool restaurants (and how swipe fees contribute to the fact that you can't afford it anyway) www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-c...
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weareravenous.comCan You Only Dine Out if You Have the Right Credit Card?Almost 80 years after the Diners' Club was founded, eating out is increasingly a matter of having the right card. If you don't, you're probably subsidizing other people's elite reservations.
It's no secret why restaurants embrace partnerships with reservation platforms backed by credit cards-they're handing out a lot of money to a perpetually precarious industry! But the deal is saving tables for people with the right cards www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-c...
weareravenous.comCan You Only Dine Out if You Have the Right Credit Card?Almost 80 years after the Diners' Club was founded, eating out is increasingly a matter of having the right card. If you don't, you're probably subsidizing other people's elite reservations.
It's all another example of how we're paying for access. Your card doesn't actually get you a good reservation. It gets you the chance at one.
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