The American fast-food restaurant chain Shake Shack is giving bitcoin rewards to customers leveraging Cash App’s debit card payment rail, Cash Card. Shake Shack claims that participants will be able to get back 15% of the purchase in Bitcoin. This promotion will continue until mid March.
Shake Shack tries Bitcoin to lure Gen Z and Millennial customers
Shake Shack, a fast food restaurant chain, is now offering cryptocurrency rewards. The company has partnered up with Block Inc. to offer bitcoin (BTC) as prizes. The announcement stems from a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report authored by Ann-Marie Alcántara and Shake Shack explained the move is meant to lure younger customers.
Executives at the burger chain told Alcántara that while it’s looking to attract millennial and Gen Z-age customers, Shake Shack is also “interested in more cryptocurrency options.” The offer will give Shake Shack consumers the ability to receive 15% of their purchase back, but paid in bitcoin. Essentially, customers need to leverage Block’s Cash Card and Cash Boost system in order to get the BTC reward.
Jay Livingston, Shake Shack’s chief marketing officer, told the WSJ reporter that the fast-food restaurant chain has not seen demand for crypto payments. However, Livingston said the experiment with the Block’s Cash App is a good way to determine whether the restaurant should accept digital assets.
“You’re always trying to place your bets on those things that truly will be meaningful and not waste resources on the ones that won’t,” Livingston told Alcántara. “If we just started taking crypto right now at our kiosk, it would have very low adoption. But through someone like Cash App, who’s been promoting it, you will get some more people that want it and that also want to learn,” the Shake Shack CMO noted.
Shake Shack was not the only company to experiment with cryptocurrency solutions. Robinhood (BK), Burger King (BK), and Robinhood (Robinhood) gave one dogecoin reward (DOGE), to BK shoppers who spend $5. Robinhood and BK distributed 200 Ethereum and 20 Bitcoin during this rewards event.
McDonald’s has yet to trial crypto payments but the fast-food giant has been testing non-fungible token (NFT) technology. For instance, McDonald’s introduced the cult-classic “McRib” NFT collectible last November, and McDonald’s France tweetedSee images of NFTs taken in April.
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