The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that the recently opened NFT-themed burger joint Bored & Hungry no longer accepts cryptocurrencies as payment. reported.
When the Los Angeles Times asked the Bored & Hungry employee about this, he refused to answer the question, saying he had no knowledge of it. At the same time, he said he did not know when the decision to remove crypto as a payment option from the menu was made and whether crypto payments would be brought back.
An employee at the time told the Los Angeles Times that the majority of their customers don’t care about crypto payment options, and customers generally don’t care much about the restaurant’s commitment to crypto.
“People want to keep their Ethereum, they won’t want to spend it,” said the boss of another Bored&Hungry restaurant. “I don’t know how crypto purchases will work in case of any crash,” said client Richard Rubalcaba.
Customers of the restaurant stated that they are not very crypto enthusiasts and often go to Bored&Hungry to eat.
The change in the venue’s payment policies seems to be linked to the crypto decline and macroeconomic collapse occurring across the globe. However, according to news that puts hardcore crypto customers at ease, the Chipotle restaurant began accepting crypto payments through Flexa in early June.
Cointelegraph reached out to Bored&Hungry owner Andy Nguyen to comment on the restaurant’s removal of crypto as a payment method, but received no response before the article was published.