{"id":128896,"date":"2025-05-09T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128896"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:18:16","slug":"bitcoin-accepted-at-fast-food-chain-steak-n-shake-from-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128896","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin accepted at fast food chain Steak \u2019n Shake from May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAmerican fast food outlet Steak \u2018n Shake has announced it will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment at all locations starting on May 16.<br \/>\nThe firm said on X on May 9 that it was making the cryptocurrency available to more than 100 million customers, adding that \u201cthe movement is just beginning,\u201d before signing off as \u201cSteaktoshi.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nThe fast food chain initially hinted at accepting Bitcoin (BTC) in March when it posted \u201cShould Steak \u2018n Shake accept Bitcoin?\u201d on social media.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe tweet drew the attention of the crypto community and Bitcoin proponents such as Jack Dorsey, who rapidly replied with a \u201cyes.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nThe firm has built momentum since then with Bitcoin-themed marketing, Tesla promotions, and visual hints on its social media feeds.<br \/>\n\u201cThe future is bright,\u201d said the firm in April. Source: Stake n\u2019 ShakeRelated: How to buy food with Bitcoin?<br \/>\nThe acceptance of Bitcoin represents a significant development in mainstream crypto adoption, as few restaurant chains have moved beyond limited pilot programs to full-scale payments.<br \/>\nCointelegraph reached out to Stake \u2018n Shake for more details but did not get an immediate response.\u00a0<br \/>\nCrypto for fast food<br \/>\nStake \u2018n Shake will join a growing number of fast food chains that accept crypto payments.<br \/>\nSince 2022, Chipotle has accepted almost 100 different cryptocurrencies via Flexa, including Bitcoin, Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL).<br \/>\nOne of the earliest adopters of crypto payments is Subway, which has piloted Bitcoin payments as far back as 2013 at select franchises.\u00a0<br \/>\nKFC offered a \u201cBitcoin Bucket\u201d promotion in Canada in 2018, allowing purchases with BTC, while McDonald&#8217;s accepts Bitcoin in Lugano, Switzerland, as part of a local crypto initiative.<br \/>\nBurger King accepted crypto gift cards and direct crypto payments in select countries like Germany, the Netherlands, and Venezuela. In September, Donald Trump used Bitcoin to buy burgers at a New York City bar.\u00a0<br \/>\nPizza Hut became one of the first mainstream outlets to accept BTC in El Salvador, where it was made legal tender in 2021.<br \/>\nThe first-ever Bitcoin transaction was made to buy fast food by Laszlo Hanyecz on May 22, 2010, which later became the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day. He paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, worth $40 at the time. Today, those pizzas would be more than a billion dollars.<br \/>\nMagazine: Bitcoin to $1M \u2018by 2029,\u2019 CIA tips its hat to Bitcoin: Hodler\u2019s Digest<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/steak-n-sats-bitcoin-accepted-steak-n-shake-locations-may-16?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAmerican fast food outlet Steak \u2018n Shake has announced it will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment at all locations starting on May 16. The firm said on X&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}