Local DC Restaurant Accepting Euros

The Amsterdam falafel shop is not in the Netherlands and the food is really vegetarian middle eastern grub--

This place is located in the District's multi cultural called Adams Morgan neighborhood were-- almost anything legal-- goes. .

Scott and Ariane Bennett, opened the shop three years ago. The husband and wife team took the name Amsterdam from the European city they love to visit--and they wanted to copy the way the Dutch laid out the ingredients for their falafels..

More recently they thought it would be good for business to begin accepting the Euro at the cash register--They posted signs advertising the Euro inside and outside their shop.

The Euro has surpassed the dollar as the currency with the most value worldwide...320million people in Europe and elsewhere use it... and the Euro is now worth about one and a half times as much as the US dollar.

Ricard Gonzalez, a journalist for a newspaper in Spain, working in DC, says he gets paid in Euros, so the more the dollar falls against the Euro, the more money he makes.

By the way, you don't get one and a half times as much food at the Amsterdam falafel shop and if you have change coming after paying with Euros, the change is dispensed in US Dollars and not Euros.

To view Bruce's report that aired On Nine News Now on the Amsterdam Falafel Shop go to the link below.

Click here to watch Bruce's DC-Euro.