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Why Resy Founder is Building in Crypto | Ben Leventhal & Li Jin

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CHAPTER

The Emotional Attachment and Access to Restaurants

This chapter explores the challenges faced by restaurants in sourcing fresh produce and the emotional attachment people have towards dining out.

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Well, the
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beauty about this is that you can only farm so much, right? Because you can only go to so many restaurants. I mean, you could overeat, but that's not going to happen. So unlike yield farming, there's
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a human limitation. One would hope
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you'd be surprised. Well, maybe maybe
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as we wrap up Ben, what's like the craziest thing that you saw in Rezi whether it's like from a user perspective, from restaurants, like just kind of curious.
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I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff that goes on. I'll give you two. One is just how well, it's all about people, how emotional people are about restaurants. You just can't you don't you can't underestimate how deeply people feel about restaurants, both in terms of how they're treated and in terms of access. The the the number one, this is like a fame inside of Rezi. There's it's no longer open because I think they've changed it, but the Tiffany Blue Box Cafe on 57th Street was a pretty early Rezi customer. And every day they released their tables. I think it was at noon and this is before the restaurant bots that are now running things took over. They would release their tables and like at 1201, the emails would start coming from people who did not get a table at the Blue Box Cafe. And they were so angry. I just beside themselves with like anger and sadness and confusion, like, how can you not be letting me into the Blue Box Cafe?

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