BTC, ETH, USDT (on ERC-20, TRC-20, BEP-20, Solana, TON), XMR, SOL, LTC, USDC, BNB, TON, DOGE, NEAR, TRX, and 20+ more across 30+ networks. Pick any supported asset at quote time — uSwap routes it to the gift-card payout.
Buy El Pollo Loco gift cards with crypto
Buy an El Pollo Loco gift card with bitcoin, monero, ethereum, or any of 30+ supported cryptos. Redeemable at participating US El Pollo Loco restaurants and at elpolloloco.com. 0% platform fee on the swap.
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Fire-grilled chicken, paid in crypto
El Pollo Loco built its name on citrus-marinated, flame-grilled chicken — bone-in quarters, burritos, family meals, and the avocado salsa people drive across town for. A uSwap gift card converts BTC, ETH, USDT, XMR, SOL, or any of 30+ supported assets into a code you redeem at any participating US El Pollo Loco location. Use it for a weeknight family meal, a stack of chicken bowls for the office, or the late-night double-chicken burrito after a long shift. The card lands in your inbox as soon as the swap confirms, ready to scan at the counter or punch into the app for pickup and delivery orders inside the US.
Why pay with crypto
Crypto-to-crypto on uSwap is 0% — there is no platform fee and no spread baked into the quote. The card itself carries the standard retail markup that funds the engine, which is how the rest of the protocol stays free. For people sitting on bitcoin gains, mining payouts, freelance USDC, or privacy-routed XMR, this is the cleanest path from on-chain balance to a chicken dinner without a card-issuer KYC wall, a third-party off-ramp, or a wire to a bank. Send the asset you already hold, get a code that spends like cash at the register.
What the El Pollo Loco card covers
Redeem at participating US El Pollo Loco restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Colorado, and Louisiana — wherever the chain operates. The balance works on dine-in, drive-thru, takeout, and on app and web orders at elpolloloco.com for pickup or delivery. Spend it on Fire-Grilled Chicken meals, Pollo Bowls, Chicken Avocado Tacos, family-size 16-piece spreads, sides like creamy cilantro dressing and pinto beans, or churros at the end. Treat the code like a prepaid balance: use a portion now, save the rest for the next run.
Privacy that matches the asset
Pay in Monero and the deposit side stays private — no public chain to trace from wallet to chicken bowl. Pay in Bitcoin or Litecoin and uSwap routes through liquidity that does not require a custodial account on your end. There is no uSwap login, no profile, no recurring identity tied to the card. The only personal data is the email the gift code is sent to, which can be a throwaway inbox. For people who prefer to keep grocery and restaurant spending off a financial graph, this is a real path, not a marketing line.
Anything in, anything out
uSwap is the universal swap layer underneath the gift-card surface. The same engine that turns ETH into an El Pollo Loco code can turn TON into USDC on Base, SOL into XMR, or BTC into a deposit on a chain you have never used. 30+ networks, one quote, no platform fee on crypto legs. If you bookmark your bridge URL, one address handles every future swap from this device — top up the same address with any supported asset and route it wherever you want next. The gift card is one exit; the protocol is the rest.
How the swap and code delivery work
Pick El Pollo Loco, choose a denomination, pick the asset you want to pay with, and uSwap returns a live quote with the deposit address. Send the crypto, wait for the network confirmations the asset requires — minutes for Solana or TRON, longer for Bitcoin under load — and the gift code is emailed automatically. If something fails mid-route, recovery is real: refund to a wallet you control, hold the balance until the market moves, or re-quote the swap. You decide.