Restaurant Industry Wants the Fed's Help—on Pennies
The lack of small change is creating big headaches for restaurants, which are asking the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury to help ease a growing penny shortage.
The National Restaurant Association trade group is imploring federal leaders to let coin terminals again dispense pennies to businesses. The Trump administration earlier this year moved to stop the minting of new pennies, and restaurants and retailers have run short sooner than expected as many coin depositories, operated by local banks and the Federal Reserve, have stopped circulating the coins...
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