Interview with Javier Dutan: Restaurant Automation ‘à la Bitcoin’
While technological innovation is seldom heard of in the restaurant industry, New York City-based entrepreneur Javier Dutan saw a chance to innovate using Bitcoin. Dutan is CEO of Novaux, a restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system with Bitcoin at its heart. Dutan saw a clear opportunity in the NYC restaurant business, which has over 22,500 restaurants, most of them using point-of-sale systems that charge varying but unanimously high bank fees and charges. He realised that Bitcoin could be just what the restaurateurs needed. The stress of running a restaurant in New York City has certainly not....
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Diners in Midtown Manhattan can buy bitcoin from an ATM now that Zen Palate, a vegan Asian restaurant, has a General Bytes bitcoin ATM on the premises. The placement of the ATM at the restaurant on Third Avenue in East Midtown takes Ann Arbor, Mich. -based Bitcoin Brands one machine closer to its goal of operating 100 ATMs. Patrons can buy bitcoins from the unidirectional ATM, which sits on the restaurant's bar and can be seen from the street. The ATM distributes bitcoin from wallets and bitcoin exchanges. Bitcoin Brands, which owns and operates the ATM, pays the restaurant a commission on....
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