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Code Story
Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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The Death of the Black Box POS: Insights from Qu
Code Story podcast features Niko Papademetriou, Co-Founder and EVP of Qu, discussing how he identified the fragmented restaurant ordering landscape and built a unified commerce platform to replace the traditional black box POS system. The episode covers his journey from finance and restaurant ownership to co-founding Qu, which now scales across 2,000+ locations by solving the menu API challenge.
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Summary
Code Story podcast features Niko Papademetriou, Co-Founder and EVP of Qu, discussing how he identified the fragmented restaurant ordering landscape and built a unified commerce platform to replace the traditional black box POS system. The episode covers his journey from finance and restaurant ownership to co-founding Qu, which now scales across 2,000+ locations by solving the menu API challenge.
Tags
pos-systems · restaurant-technology · unified-commerce · startup · menu-api · podcast · entrepreneurship
Key entities
Niko Papademetriou (person, 1) · Qu (organization, 1) · Unified Commerce (concept, 0.9) · Black Box POS (concept, 0.9) · Menu API (concept, 0.85) · Washington, DC (location, 0.95) · Code Story (organization, 0.95) · 2008 Financial Crisis (event, 0.8)
Classification
transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 24 Jul 2026