The important point is that J D Weatherspoons DO accept cash, in over 800 pubs, unlike so many other businesses.
Particularly disgracefully, many public-funded not-for-profits and charities who are members of the Association for Cultural Enterprises do NOT accept cash.
The Payment Choice Alliance is pressing the UK government to make the provision of public funding conditional on the British publics cash being accepted by these greedy “enterprises”...
Source: thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/15278312/wetherspoons-bans-scottish-cash-in-hundreds-of-pubs