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Interview with Velocity founder Zia Yusuf

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The Sybarite spoke to Zia Yusuf, co-CEO of Velocity - a London based app that allows us all to "dine and dash”.

It was a particularly patience-testing restaurant experience which saw former Goldman Sachs man, Zia Yusuf, and his childhood friend Alex Macdonald forced to wait 45 minutes for the bill - that led the Londoners to create Velocity.

The smartphone app which - despite only having launched in January 2014 - has already changed the way we dine out. In a nutshell, Velocity lets you find a restaurant,...

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