The hospitality sector in 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 restaurateurs who managed their business with analog methods, where customer memory, the order notebook, and direct interaction took precedence over any management software. In an era dominated by booking apps and digital POS systems, his tavern functioned like a legacy system, stable and reliable, based on years of accumulated experience in the trade.
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 meat doneness with an artificial intelligence algorithm seems no easy task. We suppose heaven is a perpetual beta, and that up there they are already asking him to update the ham's firmware.