[chironjit]

To add, Germany is an outlier when it comes to cashless payment adoption, even (and especially when) compared to its neighbours.

Overall, our experience is that it is impossible to be out and about cashless in Germany as there is no telling which bar / beergarten / restaurant / shop only accepts cash.

[cedilla]

It's changing in larger cities. I only have to use cash very rarely now - in small Döner or pizza shops that evade taxes.

[OfSanguineFire]

Germany’s slow adoption of cashless payment is, or at least was, shared with Austria, and even to some degree with Slovenia (which takes after Austria in many ways).