{"id":275974,"date":"2025-05-09T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/steak-n-shake-will-accept-bitcoin-payments-in-all-u-s-locations-starting-next-week\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:33","slug":"steak-n-shake-will-accept-bitcoin-payments-in-all-u-s-locations-starting-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/steak-n-shake-will-accept-bitcoin-payments-in-all-u-s-locations-starting-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Steak \u2018n Shake Will Accept Bitcoin Payments In All U.S. Locations Starting Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteaknShake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steak \u2018n Shake<\/a> will begin accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/how-to-buy-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> as payment at all its U.S. locations starting May 16, the company announced Thursday, marking one of the largest fast food Bitcoin integrations to date.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steak n Shake accepting Bitcoin payments at all locations starting May 16, making the cryptocurrency available to our more than 100 million customers. The movement is just beginning\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Steaktoshi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SGMifDZep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/1SGMifDZep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steak &#8216;n Shake (@SteaknShake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteaknShake\/status\/1920647356032139430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><template data-nitro-marker-id=\"83b926d767a9ed3e82c910cc56deb9c5-1\"\/><template data-nitro-marker-id=\"372de9843891598aa58675a785cc4349-1\"\/> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The news follows a wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteaknShake\/status\/1899267360269156370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cryptic posts<\/a> earlier this year, including one that asked, \u201cShould Steak \u2018n Shake accept Bitcoin?\u201d and a viral image of a Bitcoin-branded spaceship, igniting speculation among Bitcoiners online. Now, it\u2019s confirmed: Steak \u2018n Shake isn\u2019t just memeing \u2014 it\u2019s committed to adopting Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>This rollout will bring Bitcoin payments to over 500 restaurants nationwide, putting BTC into real world use for high frequency, low cost food purchases, which is a key milestone for crypto currency. Unlike previous food industry pilots limited to test markets, Steak \u2018n Shake is going all-in from day one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fast food brand has been building anticipation since March, gradually layering in Bitcoin imagery across its marketing, fueling conversations across social media and drawing support from prominent Bitcoin advocates, including Jack Dorsey, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteaknShake\/status\/1898115490368872745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> to the initial \u201cShould Steak n Shake accept Bitcoin?\u201d tweet with a simple: \u201cyes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is currently unclear how the fast food chain will implement this mass scale acceptance of Bitcoin payments or if they will also implement the Bitcoin Lightning Network for its customers as well. In addition to that, it is also unclear if Steak \u2018n Shake will be converting any earned BTC into cash or if they will HODL their earnings.<\/p>\n<p>This move also lands just days before <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/bitcoin-pizza-day-a-day-of-celebration\">Bitcoin Pizza Day<\/a> on May 22, which commemorates the historic 2010 transaction when Laszlo Hanyecz famously paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas.<\/p>\n<p>While other brands like Chipotle, Subway, and Burger King have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirrorreview.com\/restaurants-that-take-crypto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dabbled in crypto<\/a> over the years, Steak \u2018n Shake\u2019s full-scale, no-pilot launch is one of the boldest plays yet in fast food\u2019s flirtation with Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As \u201cSteaktoshi\u201d put it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movement is just beginning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/steak-n-shake-will-accept-bitcoin-payments-in-all-u-s-locations-starting-next-week\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Steak \u2018n Shake will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment at all its U.S. locations starting May 16, the company announced Thursday, marking one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}