Derin Alemli-Square Roots Kitchen- A New, Fully Customizable, and Healthy Dining Experience
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When you walk into the Square Roots Kitchen in Chicago, IL, you'll be in for a new type of dining experience: immediately greeted by a 32-inch touch screen panel, you'll have the ability to scroll through the main entrees, view a detailed list of the ingredients and macro-nutritional content in each, customize any item and receive real-time nutritional transparency, and filter the entire menu by dietary allergens.
As an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Square Roots Kitchen, Derin Alemli noticed a gap in the market for a customizable, high-quality ingredient dining experience. He noticed that traditional methods of dining out and ordering food weren't reliable enough, with too much room for human error--something that can become more than just inconvenient for customers with dietary needs and restrictions.
To find out more, visit squarerootskitchen.com, or to reach out with questions, email Derin at orders@squarerootsquestion.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. My guest today is Darren Lemley. |
| 0:32.0 | He's a co-founder at Square Roots Kitchen. |
| 0:34.6 | They're a technology-based healthy quick service restaurant. |
| 0:37.7 | So Darren, how you doing? |
| 0:38.9 | Doing great Richard. Happy to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. Yes, so tell me about how did the concept for the restaurant start and you know tell me how it functions? |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, absolutely. Well I got the idea for this concept sort of in the middle of my journey into entrepreneurship I started another |
| 0:55.7 | company called Downbeats which is a brand of high fidelity ear plugs for concerts in 2012 and |
| 1:01.8 | about a year and a half into that once I've gotten more to the point of automation and I had really understood that I was shifting my career from a previous career in finance to being a full-time entrepreneur and just being a creator of ideas and companies. |
| 1:16.0 | As a healthy eater myself I really saw that there was a big gap in the market in terms of |
| 1:22.0 | customizable healthy food. |
| 1:24.3 | And the main thing for me that I saw was that healthy food |
| 1:27.8 | is just such a broad concept. |
| 1:29.8 | By saying something is healthy, that |
| 1:31.6 | could actually mean something very different from a lot of different people. |
| 1:34.1 | For me that was a little carb, but I also found that for a lot of different people |
| 1:38.0 | that could be vegan or gluten-free or low calorie restriction or |
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