---
title: "Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash"
description: "Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food."
date: "2022-06-25"
modified: "2022-06-25"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/bored-ape-crypto-dollars-crash"
categories:
  - "Blockchain"
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "blockchain"
  - "bored ape"
  - "cryptocurrency"
  - "the digest"
---

# Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash

![Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/bored-ape-crypto-dollars-crash.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty \</em\>*

## Postcryptopocalypse

The Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency.

The [*Los Angeles Times* reported yesterday](<https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-06-24/this-restaurant-is-crypto-themed-you-still-have-to-pay-in-dollars>) that when the fast food shop opened in April, it accepted digital currency as well as dollars — but that was before record-breaking market crashes that depleted millions in investor dollars and [tanked entire crypto coins](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/class-action-lawsuit-binance-stablecoin>).

Now, the Bored Ape shop is no longer accepting cryptocurrency in exchange for vegan burgers or sodas. The *LA Times* said owner Andy Nguyen didn't respond to emails about the change, either, although a cashier gave some noncommittal answers and very little detail when asked in person.

Since the giant market meltdown, [crypto companies have been laying off employees,](<https://futurism.com/crypto-exchange-layoffs>) and Congress even made the first moves toward regulating the industry for the first time in history.

## No Worries

The report said customers and buger-lovers didn't exactly seem perturbed by the restaurant's backtracking.

"Yes, ethereum is a currency in a way where you can exchange NFTs and stuff … but as far as buying food and all that, maybe not," a crypto investor told the LA Times while munching down on ape-themed food.

The fact is that while, yes, the crypto market tanked there are customers willing to buy in. One [startup has increased hiring](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/binance-hiring-crash>) and there's at least one financial planner out there telling [clients to hop on board](<https://futurism.com/financial-planner-bitcoin-crash>). Whether those folks get more than a meal out of Bored Ape is another story entirely.

**More on societal constructs:** [*Google Insider Claims Company's "Sentient" AI Has Hired an Attorney*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-insider-ai-lawyer>)