Restaurants Have Down Time

The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Yu Taniguchi, the Founder and CEO of TableCheck.  TableCheck empowers restaurants with technology to enhance operations, engage guests and optimize business.

Some of the topics Yu covered:

• Moving between Singapore and Japan as a youngster
• Brought up with a conventional outlook of success
• But not wanting to live a conventional (business) life
• Initially working for a credit card company, but getting bored quickly
• Spent 8 months at a startup, but found out that a large portion was sold to VCs
• Deciding to start his own company, which felt inevitable
• TableCheck's (almost) three business models
• The volume and importance of the data that TableCheck can gather
• Optimizing the transactional part of the dining experience
• Sushi being his favorite food
• The intended future of TableCheck
• What do お父さん and お母さん think of his business

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. I Never Wanted to Go to High School
2. I Will Help You Just as Long as You Make Me the CEO
3. 95% Of the Restaurants Believed That Bookings Will Stay Offline
4. It Was Clear I Was More Capable
5. World Conquest in 15 Different Languages

This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.