In many states if the goods or service is essential they are required to offer a free way to pay. Ironically the free way often costs the recipient more to process than the card processing fees would.

One reason to do it as an add on fee is if they believe the prices will come back down. Reprinting menus with different prices for what they believe will be temporary is an unnecessary hassle/expense.

>Those who aren’t making the “cost of business” more expensive since they’re paying by cash/check get to also pay a smaller amount.

Except that the entity receiving payment has higher costs in processing and accounting for cash/check payments that they do on funds received electronically.

The really funny thing is that it costs them a LOT more in labor to process a physical check that it would an electronic payment.

>who don't understand physics and shit.

Or in this case the physics OF shit.