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unfriendly
This is Germany, my friend. :)
Personally I hate carrying cash. It's bulky and inconvenient and I prefer to swipe my phone and be done with it. Happy for the surcharge if there is one.
I don't care about personal convenience. (I'm well aware some people find handling cash hard and for them cards obviously make sense.) I prefer cash because it's not instant data collection, doesn't feed international payment system companies like PayPal that cream something off every transaction, and is lower-tech.
I think Germany has a pretty large cash-in-hand shadow economy.
Are there any countries that don't?
Oliver Schick-
I don't care about personal convenience
I mean, that's exactly the backwards part about much of German society.
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I only know of France and UK and in France cash in hand is frowned upon as employing clandestine people means heavy fines for the employer for not paying the correct taxes. While the UK seems to blame the person and not the employer.
pascalo
lynx
I'm happy for people to accept cash. I'm not happy to be barked at by some unfriendly waitress when I attempted to pay with card.
But we're in the land of "Auf der Terrasse nur Kännchen" so I'm not surprised.
Personally I hate carrying cash. It's bulky and inconvenient and I prefer to swipe my phone and be done with it. Happy for the surcharge if there is one.