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Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican Pesos
Dallas Morning News ^ | 01/07/2007 | Karen Robinson-Jacobs

Posted on 01/07/2007 5:58:37 AM PST by devane617

Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos. Restaurant experts and economists said they knew of no other food chain with locations so far from the Mexican border offering such a service. "We're trying to reach out to our core customer," Antonio Swad, president of Pizza Patrón Inc., said Friday. "We know they come back [from Mexico] and have pesos left over. We want to be a convenient place for them to spend their pesos." While U.S. restaurant chains have stepped up their marketing to Latino consumers and incorporated Latin flavors in the menu, it's unusual to see that outreach extend to the cash register. "I think it's a very interesting idea," said Ron Paul, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based restaurant market research firm. "They are catering to that audience." But Mr. Paul said he did not see other chains rushing to emulate the program, in part because of bookkeeping headaches.

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KEYWORDS: aliens; atzlan; illegal; illegalimmigration; immigration; invasion; reconquista
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To: Cheburashka; All

No, U.S. dollars being legal tender here means you must accept them if they are offered to you, though you could accept pesos or wampum in settlement of a debt if you wanted to.


21 posted on 01/07/2007 6:21:03 AM PST by since 1854
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To: zook

Thread hijack!


22 posted on 01/07/2007 6:21:06 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: cripplecreek

Haven't gotten a Euro yet, but Over ten years of dumping excess pocket change in a "wish jar", I've got a baby food jar full of international currencies accidentally accepted. I also had family in northern Maine, until I was about 12, shops on either side accepted either currency, at least for small purchases, I think Canada was about 95 cents for a long time. I wouldn't try to turn customer service into a big political statement here.


23 posted on 01/07/2007 6:22:34 AM PST by barkeep (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
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To: zook
That's funny because didn't Canadian coins always used to stick to magnets? That's why they wouldn't work in a lot of vending machines.
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Vending machine owners care about things like selling a $.50 candy bar for $.35. Do that often enough and you're out of business.

Government bureaucrats are barely able to grasp the concept of inhaling and exhaling. So when it came time to put out the bids for the automatic coin machines, no doubt the bid specifications didn't mention anything about magnets. So the vendor saw a hole and ran his furniture van through it. Made the low bid and got the contract. And the Tollway Authority was stuck with their own stupidity. First time in the history of bureaucracy that ever happened.
24 posted on 01/07/2007 6:24:05 AM PST by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: zook

By my experiences in visiting north central Minnesota, you're quite likely to find a Canadian coin or two in your change.


25 posted on 01/07/2007 6:24:18 AM PST by ErnBatavia (recent nightmare: Googled up "Helen Thomas nude"....)
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To: codercpc

I went to Italy and England last fall and they still HONOR their own Country by only accepting pounds and euros not American dollars in most establishments.

And that was fine with us ..."when in Rome"...
but this is just another way for the mexican illegals to take hold and ruin a country.

I am going to city hall and attempting to keep our city one you wouldn't be afraid to visit, once they infiltrate a city it looks worse than a inner city. I know I am fighting it now, they have a home here in our area with adult males coming and going and 20 or more living in a private home.
I will take this fight to city hall and to Austin.

Disgusted in Texas!


26 posted on 01/07/2007 6:25:02 AM PST by stopem (God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
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To: codercpc
we also want to travel into Tijuana for the day

Be prepared for a very long wait to cross back into the U.S.

27 posted on 01/07/2007 6:27:50 AM PST by ErnBatavia (recent nightmare: Googled up "Helen Thomas nude"....)
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To: devane617

Good-bye Texas..it was nice knowing ya.


28 posted on 01/07/2007 6:29:06 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Conservative and Republican are not synonymous.)
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To: devane617

How soon before we have to "Press 1 for English"?

Oh wait,....we already do. How soon before we have to "Pulsar dos para Ingles"? Or do we already have to?

Also disgusted in Texas.


29 posted on 01/07/2007 6:29:26 AM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: ErnBatavia; 1rudeboy

Canadian Money Quiz Time!

What is on the face and back of each Canadian coin?

Penny?

Nickel?

Dime?

Quarter?

[Extra Credit] Half Dollar? One dollar? Two dollar?


30 posted on 01/07/2007 6:31:06 AM PST by zook (America going insane - "Do you read Sutter Caine?)
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To: codercpc
"...I realize that Mexican immigration (illegal immigration) is a huge problem in the border States..."

Don't get out much, uh?

31 posted on 01/07/2007 6:33:50 AM PST by devane617 (It's McCain and a Rat -- Now what?)
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To: since 1854
No, U.S. dollars being legal tender here means you must accept them if they are offered to you,...
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In payment of debts. Open your wallet and read it if you don't believe me.

A subtle distinction, I admit, but real. If you can't see it, not my problem.
32 posted on 01/07/2007 6:37:45 AM PST by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: devane617

That's pretty funny that they are screwing them on the exchange rate.


33 posted on 01/07/2007 6:38:42 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: Cheburashka

The only reason anyone pays for anything is in payment of a debt.


34 posted on 01/07/2007 6:40:31 AM PST by since 1854 (www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: devane617

As a business decision, this is not a big deal. It is, however, symbolic of a social issue that is a huge deal.


35 posted on 01/07/2007 6:42:21 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
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To: Graybeard58
Coming back from Canada, I stopped in New York to eat and gave the waitress about $8 in Canadian money as a tip because I didn't want to bother with exchanging it, she was delighted to get it.

I'm pretty sure the value of any cash in the world is 100% dependent on its acceptability in another venue. I guess I'd be pleased to trade in Monopoly money if it had value beyond paper that could be reasonably ascertained.

36 posted on 01/07/2007 6:43:43 AM PST by stevem
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To: since 1854
The only reason anyone pays for anything is in payment of a debt.
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I see the distinction is too subtle for you.
37 posted on 01/07/2007 6:46:38 AM PST by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: 1rudeboy

Those Necco candy wafers used to work in the Illinois booths, too.

Not that I remember from my own experience.

My real beef is the I-pass where you are FINED for using legal money.

Maybe they can take pesos, too!


38 posted on 01/07/2007 6:49:45 AM PST by Neo-Luddite
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To: zook

Brief History of the

Mexican Bank Note

Due to the huge mining wealth of the New Spain Viceroyalty, during the three hundred years of colonial rule in Mexico, currency consisted only of gold, silver and, in a smaller quantity, copper coins. Paper money did not appear until the 19th century in Mexico, after the independence was reached....snip
http://mgossart.free.fr/english/brief_history.htm


39 posted on 01/07/2007 6:49:50 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Cheburashka

A distinction without a difference.


40 posted on 01/07/2007 6:51:53 AM PST by since 1854 (www.republicanbasics.com)
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