café

cappuccino at Curto Café in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio's best café lets you pay what you want

December 29, 2016
Business

There are no cashiers. No cash registers. No computers to ring up bills and no credit card machines. Instead, there is just a bowl, into which people drop voluntary cash amounts. Remarkably, the honor system is working, says Curto Café’s owner.

Rio's best café lets you pay what you want
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