CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, December 3, 2016 (BBC): A vegetarian cafe is refusing to accept the new #5 note after it emerged the currency contains animal products. Sharon Meijland, owner of the Rainbow Cafe in Cambridge, has put up signs warning customers about the policy.
Mrs. Meijland said she had made a “promise” to customers that the cafe was an “ethical establishment”. “Tallow’s an animal product isn’t it? Our whole business is based around not having anything like that on the premises,” Mrs Meijland said. Posters have been put at the cafe entrance and at the cash till. Since the posters went up on Wednesday no customers had complained, she said.