The hospitality sector of Zaragoza is in mourning. José Mari Aso, founder of the high tavern Pedro Saputo, passed away at the age of 73 after a long illness. For four decades, his establishment on Calle Antonio Agustín was a benchmark in the Magdalena neighborhood and a meeting point for lovers of good traditional Aragonese cuisine.
The legacy of an artisanal management system in hospitality 🍷
Aso belonged to that breed of innkeepers who managed their business with analog methods, where customer memory, the order notebook, and direct treatment took precedence over any management software. In an era dominated by reservation apps and digital POS systems, his tavern operated like a legacy system, stable and reliable, based on experience accumulated over years of practice.
How to update the firmware of a Teruel ham 🥩
Now that José Mari is gone, the neighborhood's IT specialists wonder who will maintain his legacy. Because replacing his intuition for the perfect doneness of meat with an artificial intelligence algorithm does not seem like a simple task. We suppose that heaven will be a perpetual beta, and that up there they are already asking him to update the ham's firmware.