Texas-based pizza chain accepts Mexican pesos (1 Viewer)

[KidRocks]

Can Wal-Mart and McDonalds be far behind?











Texas-based pizza chain accepts Mexican pesos - Yahoo! News

DALLAS (Reuters) - Mexican pesos won't buy you much north of the border. But from Monday they'll buy you a pizza.

A Dallas-based pizza chain which caters to the Hispanic community is accepting the Mexican currency at all of its 59 U.S. stores starting on Monday, giving the greenback some unusual competition at the cash register.

"Unlike many other businesses for us it makes sense. Our stores are located in predominately Hispanic communities and so the majority of our customers are Hispanic," said Andrew Gamm, director of brand development for Pizza Patron...

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

More useful for American tourists than Mexican immigrants.

Mexican immigrants come here to work and get paid in American dollars. Only people who need to buy food in Texas with Mexican money are Mexican visitors-- not immigrants-- and Americans who've just come back from Mexico.

 

[jujuman13]

Makes perfect sense as the US Dollar is fast becoming a junk currency.
Whereas the Mexican Peso being backed by Oil is fast becoming a hard currency.