There was no doubt that many small and medium businesses took a huge loss during the early stages of the pandemic and this is an encouraging real life story for them. The only negative thing there is they still do not accept BTC as payment but I also understand the decision as it gives them more option or become more flexible on the amount they want to invest.

And wants to start accepting only these days which means they've bought the BTC they have.

For a restaurant to plan 20-25 branches in the coming years seem to have profited a lot while the economy is crumbling down. Bitcoin saves the lives of the employees too. I wouldn't really try to expand if I were the owner of the restaurant for now. As long as the covid19 crisis still exists, there may not have a good result. Maybe try to if the country where they'd be expanding is more stable than where they currently have.

Bitcoin is deflationary because its total supply is 21M at beginning and in the end, in 2140 after 21M all mined, no more new Bitcoin will be created on Bitcoin network. Real total circulating supply will be less than 21M because millions of Bitcoin were lost and will be lost.

With Bitcoin, if you don't own or lose your private key, you will lose your Bitcoin. I am sure many people lose their Bitcoin because lack of knowledge, carelessness and unexpected accidents from catastrophe to human-made reasons.

Fiats can be printed by governments if they want to print more. All fiats lose their purchasing power because of inflation which controlled by governments. Unfortunately, governments don't want to control inflation and their policies are only delaying effects from inflation. In long run, effects occur and affect our lives.

I guess the restaurant owner is already knowledgeable of bitcoin that time that's why he take the "risk" on hedging his balance sheet into BTC. So I emphasize risk because that's how it is, and the good thing is that we are just in the bull run that time so at $12k->$69k all time high indeed it did paid a lot.

So it's a cool story but I'm sure not everyone has the guts to put their capital on bitcoin right now as we might be in the bear market already.

Timing is everything if we wanted to hedge on bitcoin against inflation, in my opinion. Specially if you are in a business just like the guy in the story.

Can we really call it a hedge against inflation? I don't think so! It is a hedge against uncertain times. Every business has their investments. What unique here is that they have invested in bitcoin which has given them an unexpected return which saved them from going bankrupt when pandemic hit.

It is good that such stories are coming to light. I am sure we have millions of such stories available all over the world where bitcoin has done great to someone's life. That's the beauty of bitcoin and decentralized technology.

Well, I bought bitcoins in Feb 2017 for $1,189 and then sold some of them in Oct 2021 for $61,374. So in 4 years and 8 months my return on my initial capital investment was 51.6 times my investment back in 2017.

Ok... using an online Interest rate calculator ... I calculated that with an investment of $1,189 back in 2017 ... your return on investment at an interest rate of say 5% p/a .... you would get compound interest of $328.50 for the 5 years and your end balance will be $1,517.50.
  (After a 4% Inflation Adjustment = $1,247.27)

Does any other investment options, even compete with Bitcoin ? ( Was I just lucky .... No several other people could have done the same, during that 5 year period... with a little less profits that would still wipe out any competition )

Accepting Bitcoin for small shops is nothing more than an addition, but it cannot build an economic model by accepting BTC alone.
Thus, retailers are using bitcoin as a hedge rather than as a payment method, but with cheaper fees and increased adoption, more users will use cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

After several years, we will start hearing stories of establishing shops that accept BTC ONLY without relying on other payment methods, just as is happening now from digital shops that do not accept cash.

I have highlighted some points that can be taken and the readers are very clear that this is proof that the benefits that Bitcoin offers are long-term durability of value. The addition of 5x more branches than usual indicates that the restaurant owner already knows what he should allocate for his future. This story is a big picture for the economic industry when it is experiencing a crisis that is not balanced in financial management during a pandemic.

I do think some people consider it a currency and some consider it an investment, I do think that considering Bitcoin an investment is always a good idea, I do think that it's nearly impossible to trust any investment right now because of the current market situation but when we consider bitcoins and cryptocurrencies they are not only profitable for the people during the time of pandemic but at the same time the whole system is collapsing and close to destruction. Inflation is something that people have to tackle right now and in some countries like Ukraine the government is ordering the cheapest markets to remove the cheap products because the government wants to regulate the prices. It's not just the pandemic it's the whole government handling of the situation.