

The well-liked Mexican quick meals chain Chipotle is now accepting cryptocurrency funds by way of digital fee supplier Flexa in any respect of its over 2,950 United States based mostly eating places.
Flexa introduced the partnership on June 1st which is able to see Chipotle settle for all of the 98 cryptocurrencies Flexa presently helps together with Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and 7 U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins together with USD Coin (USDC). Chipotle’s web site doesn’t comprise any data on the announcement nevertheless.
Bitcoin, however make it **burritos.**
We’re delighted to share that @ChipotleTweets is now accepting funds in #bitcoin, #ether, #dogecoin, and extra, completely by way of Flexa. https://t.co/W0ktwPX7i3
— Flexa (@FlexaHQ) June 1, 2022
The quick meals big is the newest Flexa associate becoming a member of different massive companies comparable to cinema operator Regal Theaters and Bancoagrícola, El Salvador’s largest monetary establishment the place Flexa permits each retail and service provider Bitcoin transactions for the financial institution’s prospects.
Chipotle has briefly experimented with cryptocurrencies prior to now. In April 2021 to have a good time National Burrito Day it gave away $100,000 value of Bitcoin together with free burritos and claimed it was the primary U.S. restaurant model to supply a crypto giveaway.
For the so known as “chiptocurrency” giveaway Chipotle partnered with former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas, making a recreation the place gamers guessed a code probably profitable both a burrito or as much as $25,000 value of Bitcoin.
The recreation parodied Thomas’ expertise of shedding over 7,000 BTC as a result of forgetting the password for his crypto pockets which at the moment could be value over $208 million.
Other quick meals names have explored or signaled curiosity in crypto and metaverse functions for his or her manufacturers. Burger King partnered with buying and selling platform Robinhood in Nov 2021 and gave away free Dogecoin (DOGE) BTC and ETH with meal purchases.
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McDonald’s, recognized for poking enjoyable at crypto Twitter, filed a number of trademark functions in February together with plans for “a virtual restaurant featuring actual and virtual goods” within the Metaverse and “operating a virtual restaurant featuring home delivery.”
With crypto adoption within the U.S. remaining excessive regardless of market turbulence retailers have expressed need to implement fee options to seize the rising curiosity.
A Crypto.com world survey of retailers launched in February confirmed solely 4% had been already accepting cryptocurrency funds, however almost 60% of retailers responded with an curiosity in accepting crypto funds throughout the subsequent yr.
Although enthusiasm from retailers general was excessive solely round 25% of the hospitality trade respondents had been eager on crypto fee adoption.