Comment by harperlee

Look, I'm speaking from personal experience only, but due to work needs I travel almost every week to Frankfurt (purportedly the financial capital of Europe) with an amex, a visa and a mastercard; and each time I pick a taxi or I go to a restaurant there is about a 50% chance they do not take anything but EC Karte, or Cash only. It is so annoying that at work we have a running Splitwise group of about 25 people because always someone does not bring enough cash on them, only some spare change from last day plus all the usual cards. This is something that I have not suffered in UK, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Louxembourg, France, Italy or Sweden. So I think German is an outlier here, and in a bad way. It is not the worst problem in the world; I just said it is annoying.