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#### I recently came across a post by @progressivechef
#### He is opening a new restaurant in Mauritius and he will be accepting payment in steem or SBD.
#### PMC Grill and Resto @progressivechef believes will be the first restaurant to do so.

* https://steemit.com/steemit/@progressivechef/introducing-the-first-restaurant-to-accept-steem-and-sbd-as-payment-pmc-grill-and-resto-a-place-where-i-want-to-promote-steem I am sure there are a good number of restaurants around the world that take bitcoin or even other alt-coins like litecoin, but I suspect the PMC Grill and Resto may well be one of a very small number of restaurants in the world running on steem. #### Do please let me know if you know of any others...

This got me thinking where else can you use steem or SBD in the 'real world'? I'm not a cryptoconomist but I'm guessing if steem and SBD had some wider use beyond the steem blockchain then demand would go up and then presumably the price would follow likewise? #### Everyone would be happy with that.

So I have started hunting around. A quick search in steemit has uncovered a few other places taking steem : * [EINSTEIN Kaffee Bistro in Potsdam, Germany](https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@einsteinpotsdam/introduction-post-einstein-kaffee-bistro-potsdam-attention-beautiful-pictures-inside) - does anyone know if this is still open? * [Urban Reclamations reclaimed furniture shop in Seattle, USA](https://steemit.com/steemit/@kewpiedoll/are-we-first-we-are-a-merchant-and-we-take-steem-as-payment) - although it is unclear from their website whether they still accept steem A post by @fiserman five months ago identified a few other places that accept payment in steem such as [Crypto Jeweler](https://www.cryptojeweler.com/) and [PexPeppers](https://www.pexpeppers.com) : * https://steemit.com/steem/@fiserman/stores-that-accept-steem @fiserman referenced the Coinpayments.net site. Searching on that site now for steem shows a few more steem accepting outlets : * https://www.coinpayments.net/store-directory-coin-STEEM A couple that caught my eye included [Ballistic Bodyboards](http://www.getballistic.com/) and [Finna Tour & Travel](http://finnatravel.com/).

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#### While many sites have an easily recognisable 'bitcoin Accepted Here' logo I haven't seen anything similar for steem. We definitely need one.

As well as conventional shops and businesses I have also found a number of steemians with Etsy shops that accept steem such as @elew and @kokibyivana : * https://steemit.com/steemit/@elew/we-are-now-accepting-payment-in-steem-in-all-of-our-etsy-shops-in-need-of-steemit-logo-for-promotion * https://www.etsy.com/shop/kokibyivana I have also found the interesting enterprise of @greatness96 selling foodstuffs to people in Nigeria : * https://steemit.com/shopwithsteem/@greatness96/vip1h-shopping-with-steem-project-first-arrival-of-foodstuffs-a-call-to-all-steemians-to-buy-with-their-steem-sbd Within steemit itself @SteemBay is beginning to take off : * https://steemit.com/steembay/@steembay/daily-report-2017-11-30 * https://steemit.com/whalepower/@em3/steembay-first-and-bonus-how-to-ppw1 The new [PaywithSteem project](https://steemit.com/@paywithsteem) is showing promise, and now is offering to supply anything from Amazon wish lists. Although as I understand it that basically involves a 15% markup on Amazon prices : * https://steemit.com/paywithsteem/@paywithsteem/paywithsteem-announcing-our-amazon-wish-list-feature It is very encouraging to see all these developments. It is still very early days for widespread use of steem in the 'outside world'. #### Questions

* Is it a good thing for steem to be used outside of the steem blockchain? * Would you want to buy products in the real world with steem? * If you have a business or offer some sort of service would you be prepared to take steem? On this last question I have thought about it as I have business. And why not. Yes I would take steem for payment for our work. (It is web design and application development by the way). #### If anyone knows of any other real world businesses that take steem or SBD as payment please do add in the comments below. I will compile them into a fuller post if there is sufficient demand.
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