The Burrito Joint eatery at the corner of Packard and Dewey in Ann Arbor might seem an unlikely birthplace for a tech startup. But that was where Verdi Erel Ergun, 27, the Joint’s owner and an MBA student at the University of Michigan, decided he was fed up with his cash register. And frustration, when felt by a creative entrepreneur, is often the spark of a new business idea.
When Verdi Erel Ergun graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006 he started an eatery in Ann Arbor called Burrito Joint. Quickly, he learned about the limitations of cash register technology. That tickled his entrepreneurial funny bone. He sold the restaurant and formed Ergun Technology.
