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hi showdog,
yeah, pizza patron exchanges at a rate of 12 pesos to the dollar and customers get change in US currency. that's definitely a big part of the appeal.

something else I thought was interesting...I also spoke to the CEO of Value Giant and he brought up the point that people with pesos are simply that...people with pesos.
Their first customer to bring in pesos was a NON-hispanic teacher who would get pesos from students after they returned from trips to mexico. Much like you... She was thrilled she finally had the opportunity to use them.

I think this is just adding to our problems in this country.

We allow these people to come over and spend mexican money, speak spanish instead of making them learn our currency and learn our language, we give up the last bit of hold we have left.

I, for one don't want to live in the United states of AMEXICA.

Well, Ted, no matter how much we thought Monopoly money was real when we were kids, it is, in fact, fake! ;)

I just don't give a flip on this issue. If a company wants to accept a foreign currency (I don't care from which country the currency originated), more power to them.

What a private business owner accepts for payment of his goods or services simply doesn't matter. If it's foreign money, that's what Exchange Rates were created to cover. Canadian money is extremely common in all of the Northern border states, and has been for as long as I can remember. I see no difference in Mexican money being used in Southern border states.

A private business owner can accept anything he chooses in exchange - it doesn't even have to be money!! He can, at his discretion, REFUSE to take foreign money; it's all the business owner's choice.

The bad thing about taking foreign money is trying to keep up with the exchange rate ! Places in Europe take all types of monies, but they really have to keep up, or they'll be fined !

Anyone who has worked in retail there, says that it's like watching the stock market constantly !

in a year or so this also will be a non-issue. It will become more or less a common thing. Personally, I view it as the business' own decision if they want to do it. I was in Germany and France years ago in the military and I remember they would take my dollars as well as their money. I don't see us doing differently. This does not mean that I am for illegal immigration though.

Let's be serious where are these businesses located? Who is the clientele? I haven't seen a Pizza Patron in the Mall. If you use the argument of people coming back on vacation that's not enough to support the added expense of book keeping and exchange rates. The reason to accept pesos are one thing the results are another.

I've been throughout the world and the currency prefered has always been the American dollar without exception.

As for asking a business if a backlash worked or if they are doing well, that's speculative without the books. I had to cant my head to the left when I first read this post.

Shell = you found the solution : bartering !

One large pizza for five gallons of gas !!

I love it !

Pizza places deal in pepperoni and mozzerella cheese.

Banks deal in cash only. They are set up for exchanging currency. Pizza places are not. The num-skulls there may either rip off a customer or over pay the customer. Bascally, the probability of someone losing in the end is great.

Pizza place even said, they aren't making any extra money, but their business is getting more customers. Sounds like the business is suffering the loss of money.
More customers and business should mean more money...not the same amount of money.

Businesses have the right to accept whatever they want for their product. As long as they are keeping up with the proper exchange rate (which someone else brought up), then it's perfectly legal. If a business wants to accept only cows for their produce, they have that right. Whether they are successful depends on their customers. I actually know several white and black people that enjoy Pizza Patron. They don't pay in pesos, but they don't have to.
As for their increased sales. People will never learn. Once you label something bad and/or protest it, that almost guarantees profits for that business or industry. Look at the music industry when they added "Parental Warnings" to ones they found "offensive". They thought that would deter sales, but had just the opposite effect.