Originally Posted by tmiw

Yeah, it actually hasn't been all that long since you could start pretty much assuming everywhere accepted cards in the US. I remember a fair number of smaller places here being cash only all the way up to maybe the early 2010s, for instance (and even one donut shop that finally gave in and started accepting cards with a surcharge a year or two into the pandemic, but that might have been more due to Dunkin' opening down the street than anything else).