Bottoms Up Beer Tap and Austin Street Scenes
A new beer tap technology called Bottoms Up uses magnetic valves in the bottom of specialized cups to fill beverages quickly and reduce waste. Sir Warren Carroll, a co-owner of the company, met with one of the hosts in Austin to discuss how the system improves bar revenue by 30%. The conversation shifts to the current state of downtown Austin, noting the contrast between high-tech scooters and the local homeless population.
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00:00 That's what I'm talking about. Have your mom do it! Protecting producers from phoneliness and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas In the Cluedio. In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where XL is the new M I am John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot and Buzzkill In The Morning! Well I happen to be someone who is an expert on women's clothing or are you talking about men's clothing?
00:39 About minced t-shirts. Oh man, she's like people people only wear t-shirts nowadays Really shirts are too expensive it is true that t-shirt sizes are very unclear It's like when Horowitz sent me the DH unplugged t-shirt the coveted very expensive dh unplugged to t-shirt I might add yeah Yeah Two Adams could have fit in this thing Or one programmer. Oh, dude's name Ben? It's John at Dvorak dot org. Yes Yeah now okay any other reason for saying that or it was just that's just your
01:21 That was my thing. Just how you want to get into it today? Might as well. All right, I had a nice lunch yesterday with Sir Warren Carroll from Indianapolis he was in town yes he's been itching to have lunch with you and he is part owner co-owner of a very interesting company called Bottoms Up have you ever heard of this There's a bunch of bars in San Francisco called Bottoms Up. Yeah, different kind of bar I think but no he and his partners invented a beer tap
01:57 Which of course comes with special cups that fills from the bottom up. So you just place it onto like a little round thing and plop! And it pops up a magnet valve inside the cup, and it fills up the beer really quickly perfect head, perfect everything So I guess there's a great need for this. Actually, it turns out within six months any bar or restaurant that uses this improves their bottom line on alcohol sales by 30%. Wow! Yeah that is what i said just by speaking alone. If you can go with that pitch from place to place you can sell quite a few of them. That's the idea This is a great story these guys went through It's really very interesting
02:42 There's less chance of the mug being stolen. It just, well it's speed! It's just speed of filling up the glasses really quick... You can YouTube it bottoms-up yeah make sure you have your safe search on otherwise might get something wrong but it is very interesting so we had a nice little chat and as I'm pointing out to exactly what's going on we were right in the corner of Second Street, and I'm saying look we've got all these douchebags here. Look there's all those scooters driving by and low and behold there was a homeless guy eating out of the trash can at the same time. It's like welcome to Austin. Nice! Perfect as if I had scripted it it was fantastic and he says he's in like an Airbnb kind of business Airbnb
