Restaurant of Russian cuisine “by Dr. Zhivago, located in the hotel “national” in the center of Moscow, began to accept only cards of the national payment system and cash, rejecting card acceptance VISA and Mastercard. About it write on Tuesday, 14 June, “Vedomosti”.
Information about the refusal of the acceptance of cards of other payment systems, except for national, confirmed the administrator of the institution. “We support all national,” he said.
Restaurant owner Alexander Rappaport in an interview with the Village noted that the payment system “World” — one of Russia’s main financial products that needs support. “We believe he [financial product] requires quite an active support, so decided to enter the restaurant “Dr. Zhivago” pay credit card “the World”. Thus we want to attract people to the system: it corresponds to the task that stands before us all, namely to support the Russian product, and the concept of the restaurant. After all, for a restaurant important a clear concept, and we love when she is brought to the maximum,” — said the restaurateur.
While Rappaport expressed his confidence that the restaurant will not have problems with payment. “We warn at once that only accept certain cards. All over the world can come anywhere and say: “We only accept American Express” or conversely, “We do not accept American Express. This is normal. Moreover, in each of our restaurant’s ATM machine”, — he added.
As the “Vedomosti”, Visa and MasterCard are not accepted and in another Moscow restaurant, owned by Rappaport, in the “Chinese literacy”. There’s only American Express or China Union Pay and also cash. In this case, as in “Dr. Zhivago, the institution is ATM allows to withdraw cash with the return of the Commission the administration of the restaurant.
National system of payment cards “the World” started to work in Russia on 1 April 2015. The need of its creation came in the summer of 2014 when Visa and MasterCard because of U.S. sanctions against Russia stopped servicing cards of some Russian banks (SMP Bank, InvestCapitalBank, the Bank “Russia” and Sobinbank).
