{"id":116210,"date":"2025-11-03T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116210\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:44:11","slug":"mcdonalds-is-rounding-cash-transactions-with-pennies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116210\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s is rounding cash transactions with pennies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) \u2013 McDonald\u2019s is among the many businesses dealing with the penny shortage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some of its fast-food restaurants are now rounding cash purchases, either up or down, to the nearest five cents when customers don\u2019t have exact change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Mint stopped making pennies two months ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The change in McDonald\u2019s policy to round up or down only affects people paying cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most people in the United States use credit cards or other cashless payments to buy their food and drinks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) \u2013 McDonald\u2019s is among the many businesses dealing with the penny shortage. Some of its fast-food restaurants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,82444,111,139,69,82443,82446,82445],"class_list":["post-116210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-mcdonalds-rounds-cash-purchases","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-penny-shortage","tag-rounding-cash-purchases","tag-us-mint-stopped-making-pennies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}