 I'm Ornella Hernandez with Cointelegraph and I'm in Clearwater, Florida where a new restaurant hopes to fully reflect the crypto space from its decor to its food item menus and it even allows customers to pay using crypto. Let's go talk to the owner, Ricardo Barona. So, Ricardo, tell me about how you got started in the restaurant, who gave you the idea and how it was to decide it out? So we've had a restaurant before and we had some restaurants that we didn't have the liberty that we have right now so we wanted to be more independent and do something new and something that was more us and that we could bring our flavors into it. I was thinking about it for a while and then also I've had crypto conversations with my son which we had for years and I was totally on the other side like totally like I would not believe that it was going to happen and I was afraid that he was going to lose his money and all that and within time and within him you know things that he'd done starting watching it more then it was more I guess for me more made from when it was in Robin Hood because I was trading and I've been trading forever but I also were just because of the new thing I was doing it on Robin Hood as well. So then I see that they had a few I got in and we actually got lucky because by the time I got in it was a little bit over a year so it was like with Dogecoin that wasn't even that was considered a joke that he even told me to be careful that even when I got some and I made a little bit of money he's like yeah yeah but get rid of it it's a joke so the guy that's selling me that he knows and talking about Litecoin and Bitcoin and all that he tells me that but then I did keep some really good so then it helped me make this transition easier because of the money spent and all that came something from it from actually that so and I was then also trading all you know holding some Bitcoin holding some of the more known Ethereum's and stuff like that and then learning about them so the idea is like to promote crypto and they use and education in a in a lightweight already with approach with people that want to come and do like conversations I want to have like 10 people here 20 people here a couple people have talked to me about it I'm also working with a couple of people that have news venue that are starting my idea would be to sit that in the system where like the employees will all benefit so we anybody can do any of them please could be trained that we go we do it we put in it's like gonna pool and then plays the benefit like from like the kickbacks and stuff from like coin basically not like they well I have it just on my account but I've told them that as I'm training them you know that whenever one of them then we're gonna do that you know that whenever they're doing it the ones in the front which is me soon I just got this done two days ago and actually Haley took a payment in Bitcoin just right there while I was talking to the Neo Kabuto thing Haley took a payment these are like my received from Coinbase so I started printing them out the mayor and yes so like if you you have your crypto and you put and the cool thing too is that you write the amount not me so like I tell you okay so you're kind of 35 bucks no you're gonna put okay 35 bucks send and and your thing has a thing to read the code whenever whatever coin best or whichever even your wallet the personal was so you can send it from anywhere to one of these and it happens immediately like well Bitcoin depending because like these guys use the lightning network and happening me I before no Bitcoin can take a couple hours but at least you see that is confirmed like if you're paying me I see that you got to confirm so it doesn't matter that if I don't see it it's gonna come because you cannot get a refund on crypto so it's safe and you so it's not like a credit card that you can come and and then go and call and say I wasn't there people cannot do that with crypto so that's really safe for us and plus the fees are less too because what it the person that sent me for example the 70 bucks he posted that he what he pay was point zero zero three some of that you know that I was kind of like afraid of that thinking you know people are down because the crypto is down it's too early for me to say that because right now we're like in the slowest season of the of the year in the in the beach and whatnot it was lower than the yesterday that everything you know crashing one I was always unexpected but I don't think that he had to do with that as much yeah yeah so fan favorites are definitely like the the crypto Cuban the so that the Cuban surface the club we said a lot of it is huge too so a lot of times I if it's somebody that's like more you know on the petite side when I tend to tell them hey share it or you know you can take some home because we make it real big and then the dose drug it's actually a not worse so it's been pretty popular because we don't do like a regular hot dogs are kids dog they're all boys heads so it's pretty good stuff but then for the dose drugs that's a nice thick not worse so it's been pretty popular thank you