Nutrient Farm
Food & Dining
Colorado biodynamic farm selling grassfed beef, organic produce and pantry goods with USDC enabled at checkout.
USDC
BaseEthereum +3 networks
Verified
Category
Food & Dining that accept stablecoins
Food is the category people expect stablecoins to have conquered and the one where they have made least progress. Buying lunch with a dollar token is the scenario every payments pitch reaches for, and after a decade of trying it remains close to impossible in most of the world. What exists in the United States is two chains accepting through a point-of-sale network neither of them advertises, and one platform that tried it for five years and stopped. That is not a research gap on our side — it is the state of the market, and the structural reasons behind it are more interesting than the handful of listings. Restaurants run on thin margins, high refund expectations and instant service, and an irreversible payment that takes a phone, an app and a scan is a poor fit for all three.
7 merchants USDCDAIEURCAEC
Food & Dining accepting stablecoins
Out of the Grey Coffee
Food & Dining
Pennsylvania specialty roaster shipping coffee and loose-leaf tea worldwide, with USDC at checkout.
USDC
BaseEthereum +3 networks
Verified
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Food & Dining
The largest US restaurant chain accepting digital currency at the till, through Flexa — though Chipotle itself never mentions it.
USDCDAIEURC +2
EthereumSolana +2 networks
Payment availability may vary
Menufy
Food & Dining
Restaurant ordering platform that accepted four stablecoins through BitPay until withdrawing crypto payment in July 2025.
No longer accepting
Regal Cinemas
Entertainment
US cinema chain where tickets and concessions can be paid in person with USDC on Base through Flexa, first via Coinbase Wallet and now Base Pay.
USDCDAIEURC +2
BaseEthereum +2 networks
Payment availability may vary
Select Market
Food & Dining
Abu Dhabi supermarket chain taking AE Coin, the UAE's central-bank-licensed dirham stablecoin, by QR code at the till.
AEC
Payment availability may vary
Sheetz
Food & Dining
Mid-Atlantic convenience and made-to-order food chain accepting USDC at all 750-plus locations through Flexa.
USDCDAIEURC +2
EthereumSolana +2 networks
Payment availability may vary
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Every cell comes from the merchant's record. "Pairing not documented" means the merchant lists the coin and some networks but does not say which chain the coin runs on; confirm at checkout. Evidence dates are when an editor last read the merchant's own page.
| Merchant | Coins and networks | Payment route | Restrictions | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrient Farm |
| Via Shopify Payments | USDC only — Shopify Payments supports no other stablecoin. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-07 | Verified |
| Out of the Grey Coffee |
| Via Shopify Payments | USDC only — Shopify Payments supports no other stablecoin. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-07 | Verified |
| Chipotle Mexican Grill |
| Via Flexa | In restaurant only — the option does not appear on chipotle.com or in the Chipotle app. +3 more | Corroboration only 2026-09-12 | Payment availability may vary |
| Menufy | No stablecoin named | Via BitPay | Cryptocurrency payment was withdrawn on 14 July 2025 and is no longer available. | Documentation checked 2026-09-05 | No longer accepting |
| Regal Cinemas |
| Via Flexa | In person only — tickets and concessions at the theatre. Nothing suggests a crypto option on regmovies.com or in the Regal app. +3 more | Corroboration only 2026-09-12 | Payment availability may vary |
| Select Market |
| Via AEC Wallet, Al Maryah Community Bank | In store only, by QR code. There is no AE Coin option on the online shop. +3 more | Corroboration only 2026-09-12 | Payment availability may vary |
| Sheetz |
| Via Flexa | In store only — nothing on sheetz.com offers digital currency. +3 more | Corroboration only 2026-09-12 | Payment availability may vary |
This is the shortest category on the site, and the reason it is short is the most useful thing on this page.
What actually exists
Chipotle and Sheetz accept digital currency at every US location through Flexa, a point-of-sale network that supports USDC, DAI, EURC, GUSD and USDP. Between them that is roughly 3,700 stores.
Neither company says so anywhere on its own website. We checked their homepages, help pages and payment pages before publishing those records. In-store stablecoin acceptance in America is, in practice, a private arrangement between a payment network and the customers who already have its app.
What stopped
Menufy powered online ordering for thousands of independent US restaurants and accepted four dollar stablecoins through BitPay from 2020. It withdrew cryptocurrency entirely in July 2025 and said so in a dated note on its own site.
That withdrawal is the single most informative data point in this category. Menufy was the best real example of the everyday-consumer-spending case: not a crypto-native business, not a luxury marketplace, just several thousand ordinary restaurants where you could pay for a pizza in USDC. It ran for nearly five years and then stopped.
What is Bitcoin-only, and therefore not here
Plenty of restaurants accept crypto without accepting stablecoins, and it would be misleading to list them in a stablecoin directory:
- Steak ‘n Shake switched on Bitcoin over Lightning across 393 US locations in May 2025 — the largest and best-documented restaurant crypto rollout to date.
- Burger King takes Bitcoin at franchisee level in Venezuela, Germany and the Netherlands.
- Pizza Hut and McDonald’s accept Bitcoin in El Salvador, dating from the legal-tender period.
- Subway has had Lightning at individual franchises on and off since 2013.
If Bitcoin is what you hold, those are real options. They are simply not what this site catalogues.
The honest recommendation
Use a gift card. Buy restaurant or delivery credit with USDC or USDT from one of the gift card platforms in this directory, then spend it like any other card. You pay a few percent in the exchange rate and you lose the satisfaction of paying a restaurant directly.
It also works today, in thousands of places, which direct acceptance does not.
Food & Dining questions
Which restaurants actually accept stablecoins?
In the United States, Chipotle and Sheetz, both through the Flexa point-of-sale network, and neither mentions it on its own website. Outside the US we have verified none. Several chains accept Bitcoin — Steak 'n Shake across 393 locations via Lightning, Burger King in a few countries at franchisee level — but Bitcoin is not a stablecoin and those are out of scope here.
Why are there so few?
Restaurants depend on frictionless refunds and run on thin margins, and an irreversible payment method suits neither. The merchant's usual reason to want crypto — eliminating chargebacks — matters less in food than in digital goods, because disputes are rare and the product is consumed immediately. The economics point away from the category and have for years.
What is the practical way to buy food with stablecoins?
A gift card. Bitrefill, Coinsbee and CoinCards all sell restaurant and delivery credit for USDC or USDT, which you then spend normally. You pay a small spread for the conversion and you lose the directness, but it works today at thousands of venues, which direct acceptance does not.