At the same time there are places like our local pizza shops actually accepting lightning payments and guess what ?
It is working and at the same time it's creating more awareness about Bitcoins.
We are getting dual benefits
1. We are able to use it as a currency
2. More and more people are trying to get involved.

Years before it was like * do you have PayPal ? *
Now I see like , do you have the lightning network of Bitcoin ?

This growth is amazing , how years pass and technology develop and am glad we all are able to keep up with it.

That is nice for the bar man, although I don't liquor for the sake of my faith in Jesus Christ. I hope customers don't end of buying drink work of $3,000 at a goal and after 5days, the $3,000 turns $6,000. That is part of the magic of the bitcoin though.

Today it's clear that Lightning is the most important crypto thing after Bitcoin itself, in the future most BTC users will probably only interact with it and only have on-chain BTC transactions for opening channels (and maybe some future wallets will even abstract that away from users). Eventually Bitcoin and Lightning will mean the same thing and will be used interchangeably in everyday talk.

I'm glad that you point out the growth of acceptance of LN, because most people only pay attention to the growth in the price. Price increases and development don't go well together.

Most of the development takes place in times with little to no positive price movements, which is why I'm happy that the bear market makes people aware of what really matters and keeps the gamblers away for a while.

I'm sure that when we're a year or two away from now and still haven't upgraded to LN, people will skip your site or service, especially with how the main chain fees by that time will be even higher.

I for one wouldn't be overly enthusiastic about this use case

Most certainly, after an initial rage and rush with trying out real-life payments for things like a glass of beer (or a cup of tea if beer is not your thing), people will get back to their deep-rooted practice of keeping bitcoins and spending fiat instead. In other words, LN is not going to help Bitcoin adoption (at least not in a considerable degree). Changing spending habits and consumer preferences would help but that is beyond our control or influence as it basically requires rewiring human brains en masse (and we are not there yet)

This is everyone's dream enjoying services by paying bitcoin. I hope more and more merchants will accept bitcoin. It's not shocking that Japan has adapted bitcoin in their daily activities and even started accepting it as a mode of payment even if they just lately adapted cryptocurrency. Let's hope that bitcoin adaptation will reach this level in a huge scope not just in one country but around the globe.

this is what happens when a country accepts bitcoin as a currency (in case you have forgotten, in 2017 Japanese government passed a law recognizing bitcoin as a legal way of payment which was a big part of the reason for rise to $20k).
there are lots of businesses that are accepting bitcoin payment in Japan, specially since there are 0 taxes on bitcoin payments. using Lightning Network was bound to happen on larger scale over in Japan too because of their views (seeing bitcoin as a currency not just an investment).

This is yet another step towards progress to the future of bitcoin and it's uses to the trading and economy.
hearing these kind of news is always pleasant it just proves that bitcoin can be used on a daily basis through
development and innovation that benefits it's users.

This will solve the bitcoin scalability issue, hopefully more news will be seen in the future as the market is on its progress.
For those who haven't understand yet how lightning network work, you can watch this video, Bitcoin's Lightning Network, Simply Explained!.

It is nice to accept bitcoin as payment in every purchase but you still have option to choose between fiat and crypto. Even me, I do not want to spend bitcoin like that because it takes time to have satoshi, so better to use it in most worth thing or just keep it for investment.