The Miscellany of Stewart McCoy

‘We wanted a service that lets you dine out and pay without waiting for the check,’ Cove said. ‘Dining out should be about the people at the table around you. We wanted to make it about that experience.’

What they set out to build, then, was a payments platform and mobile application that would reduce all the fuss and calculations that happen when the check comes. It was important to them that the platform would be able to gracefully handle large groups, and also that it would work with restaurants’ existing point-of-sale systems so that they wouldn’t have to install a whole new order, ticket, or payments system.