The post American Fast Food Chain Steak ‘n Shake Is Coming to El Salvador appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Steak ‘n Shake, a fast food restaurant company in the United States that accepts Bitcoin (BTC), announced on Saturday that it is expanding into El Salvador. “We were honored to be in Bitcoin Country,” the company said in an X post following Steak ‘n Shake’s participation in the country’s Bitcoin Histórico event on Wednesday and Thursday. Steak ‘n Shake started accepting BTC for payment at its stores in May, and the company’s chief operations officer, Dan Edwards, told Cointelegraph that the goal is to have BTC accepted at all of the company’s locations worldwide. Source: Steak ‘n Shake The company attributed a nearly 11% rise in same-store sales in Q2 to its decision to start accepting BTC at its restaurants. The company has become iconic in the Bitcoin community and highlights the growing number of merchants accepting BTC for goods and services. Acceptance of BTC as tender for small, everyday purchases is also a precursor to mass adoption. Related: Steak ‘n Shake Bitcoin reserve: Happy meal for hodlers or nothingburger? Steak ‘n Shake backtracks on accepting Ether as a payment method and celebrates Q3 sales Steak ‘n Shake polled its followers on the X social media platform in October, asking whether it should accept Ether (ETH) as payment at its locations. 53% of the 48,815 followers polled voted in favor of the proposal, sparking significant backlash from the Bitcoin community. “ETH is centralized garbage. Bitcoin is freedom. Doing this would lose you all your Bitcoiner business, including mine,” Bitcoin maximalist Ron Sovereignty Swanson said in response. Although initially promising to “abide by the results” of the social media poll, Steak ‘n Shake backtracked on the proposal to accept ETH. “Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this? I’m back at my desk,” the company… The post American Fast Food Chain Steak ‘n Shake Is Coming to El Salvador appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Steak ‘n Shake, a fast food restaurant company in the United States that accepts Bitcoin (BTC), announced on Saturday that it is expanding into El Salvador. “We were honored to be in Bitcoin Country,” the company said in an X post following Steak ‘n Shake’s participation in the country’s Bitcoin Histórico event on Wednesday and Thursday. Steak ‘n Shake started accepting BTC for payment at its stores in May, and the company’s chief operations officer, Dan Edwards, told Cointelegraph that the goal is to have BTC accepted at all of the company’s locations worldwide. Source: Steak ‘n Shake The company attributed a nearly 11% rise in same-store sales in Q2 to its decision to start accepting BTC at its restaurants. The company has become iconic in the Bitcoin community and highlights the growing number of merchants accepting BTC for goods and services. Acceptance of BTC as tender for small, everyday purchases is also a precursor to mass adoption. Related: Steak ‘n Shake Bitcoin reserve: Happy meal for hodlers or nothingburger? Steak ‘n Shake backtracks on accepting Ether as a payment method and celebrates Q3 sales Steak ‘n Shake polled its followers on the X social media platform in October, asking whether it should accept Ether (ETH) as payment at its locations. 53% of the 48,815 followers polled voted in favor of the proposal, sparking significant backlash from the Bitcoin community. “ETH is centralized garbage. Bitcoin is freedom. Doing this would lose you all your Bitcoiner business, including mine,” Bitcoin maximalist Ron Sovereignty Swanson said in response. Although initially promising to “abide by the results” of the social media poll, Steak ‘n Shake backtracked on the proposal to accept ETH. “Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this? I’m back at my desk,” the company…