If you’ve ever used Resy to dazzle your in-laws or scoured Eater for a dive bar the TikTok influencers haven’t found yet, you know the work of Ben Leventhal–a founder of both companies. F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives, but in the hospitality industry things always get good around the third act.

Leventhal’s third act is called Blackbird. It’s a loyalty program built on the blockchain to serve the existing relationship between restaurants and their most devoted customers, as well as create a better data model for new relationships. Each restaurant has a personalized, digital loyalty card. The relationship begins when you “check in” at a restaurant by tapping your phone against an NFC chip on-location.

The Venom Testnet is an innovative platform that offers a secure and user-friendly environment for developers, users, and enthusiasts to interact with decentralized applications (dApps), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the entire process, providing step-by-step instructions, tips, and best practices to help you get the most out of your Venom Testnet experience.

When the pandemic temporarily closed restaurants in March 2020, I had been waiting tables since I graduated college. I was free for a month or so when I moved from San Diego to New York City in 2015, but otherwise, I’d never taken more than a week off. I waitressed for longer than I attended college, longer than I’ve been writing professionally, longer than I’ve known many of my friends, longer than I’ve lived in New York.