Takeaway platforms have made it easy to enjoy our favourite meals, but they’ve made life tough for the restaurants we love.

Current platforms demand that restaurants pay disproportionate fees, while dictating control over data, pay-out, client relations, loyalty and contact. It’s a stitch-up that results in higher costs for consumers and restaurants.

Bistroo puts an end to this, by providing a platform where businesses are back in control.

We offer better user experience, lower transaction costs and a fairer infrastructure. Our job is to provide the tools, insights and support to facilitate a peer-2-peer relationships for our merchants.

**We facilitate, never dictate**
We've created a platform that facilitates the connection between restaurants, food merchants and consumers, instead of controlling it. Merchants are in full control of their payments, product selection, orders, advertising, and analytics. They can speak directly with their customers and are paid out instantly when orders are received.

Our operational product launched on March 3rd 2020 within the Netherlands and has over 25k active and recurring users, generating 250k USD platform turnover monthly (see HERE for up-to-date stats).

The utility will become globally available through the launch of the Bistroo.com instance, eventually providing a platform for every merchant globally to onboard themselves and provide their products online to their customers.

# BIST is the network’s utility token that is used for:
- Purchase your food using BIST tokens against reduced rates compared to FIAT purchases.
- Order givebacks: For each order placed using FIAT you receive 1% of the order cost back in BIST token. If you use BIST Tokens to place the order you receive 2% of the order cost back.
- Data rewards:Share your consumption and order data & you will be rewarded with BIST tokens.
Ratings & reviews: Write community valued reviews for meals & services and be rewarded in BIST for contributing valuable info.
- Merchant staking: Staking BIST tokens as a merchant will allow you to get discounts on commision fees.
- Contribute: Be a valuable member of the community by, for example, onboarding your favorite restaurant or inviting your friends & receive BIST tokens as your reward.
- Shopping: Merchants can use BIST tokens to purchase all kinds of store attributes to enhance their customer experience.
- Premium features: BIST tokens can be used by merchants to gain access premium dashboard features at a significantly reduced price.
- Smart advertisement: Merchants can use BIST tokens for advertising to their target customer audience.
- Community & liquidity staking: Earn rewards for contributing to the network by staking your BIST tokens, or by providing liquidity.

# Who are the founders?
Bistroo was founded by Bas Roos, CEO & Bob Dohmen, CTO late 2018.

Our team has grown to 16 hands-on champions over the course of the last couple of months. With team members in development, marketing, content and communication team members, we are ready for the next leg of growth and development to scale the platform.

# Advisory Board
Chris Dawe - Founder & CEO at Effect.ai
Hans van Tricht - CFO at Jamezz
Jeff Gielen - Strategic Advisor at Kadans Science Partner