Blerk betters the perc

The days of keeping piles of coffee loyalty cards in wallets may be over, thanks to a Hamilton-based civil engineer-turned-coffee maestro. Hendrik van Blerk and his team have developed the new technology on one app and there are plans to take the technology New Zealand-wide. With the app, all loyalty cards can be stored on phones and will register patronage, alert the user to benefits, and renew cards when they have been filled. All users have to do is download the free app for iOS or Android, go to their favourite coffee outlet or cafe, and ask if they are using SmartCoffeeCard. Each participating cafe has a unique QR code. Cafe and coffee outlets get benefits too. SmartCoffeeCard's users are listed on their website with details like the type of beans the cafe uses and a link to the roaster's website. This could be a great app for both coffee shop and customer to look into and potentially benefit from. Also set to benefit from recent developments are pregnant women seeking abortions in Texas, because a vote on a new law which could close most of the abortion clinics in the US state of Texas came too late to pass. The senate had approved the bill, which bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and requires all procedures to take place in surgical centres. But Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst later confirmed that the vote had not met a midnight deadline. This is why meeting deadlines is important. No matter what side you are on regarding abortion or any other hot-button issue, it would be a lot better for you if you meet deadlines as often as possible.