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You scoured the wine menu and found your perfect match. The sommelier presses the correct combination of buttons — it's really only two; the system is incredibly user-friendly. Then, the wine case's backlight and individual spotlights dim slowly and dramatically, save for the uncommon bottle you've chosen to savor a rare single glass of — it glows, tantalizingly, like a prize. And the Italian Enomatic wine system made it all possible. Here's how.

Jeremy Markham and Kyler Juckins are small town, baby-faced college-aged kids. "We will just have to see where we end up," the duo muse when asked about their long-term career plans. So what makes the pair different from other people their age? Well, for one, they created a popular food app and secured investors...at age 18. Read on.

Chef Robert Luna spent nine months drafting the new menu and he and owner Jeff Ellermeyer took a gamble: they put their e-mail addresses at the top of the menu for feedback. And, guess what, people wrote in. Many. Could this be a technological leap in the customer-chef relationship?