If your name is Betty and you opened a place, that place would be called BETTY’S PLACE? No? That’s the story of Betty of Betty’s Place Nyeri. She of course refused to confirm or deny my allegations. Like any Kenyan person, she blamed this to the guys who did her Branding. If I opened a fast food joint, I would call it D&S not Maina’s Place but if the constitution required it to have a person’s name, I would then call it Ami’s. Betty is different, she doesn’t require it to be in the constitution to tell her anything. I forgot to ask if she follows the constitution to start with but I am sure she doesn’t. She believes in the future and the constitution is not the future. So she called her place Betty’s place.

This is however not about why Betty of Betty’s Place decided to call her place, Betty’s place but about how a restaurant in Nyeri is making it in the world map for accepting non-conventional ways of payments. You see Betty is the kind of person who receives attention from all directions and I sitting at her restaurant waiting for her was starting to feel like a bad idea. I felt like a young bikozulu waiting to conduct his first interview. I thought Betty would be huge. The kind that has specs and drives a harrier, maybe she does I didn’t ask her. She was easy and had locks on (I think locks are the future too) and spoke softly but with confidence.

Betty’s Place, this is the last time I am  mentioning the name by the way, accepts Bitcoins and Nurucoins as modes of payments. Crypto currency is something I don’t understand and talking to Betty didn’t change anything. I still don’t believe in the money of the future but according to her, in the next say five years, Crypto will have broken even and will be an acceptable currency.

I asked her  how she knows how much to charge for cappuccino in BTC and she said it varies with the exchange rates. Bitcoin is a fragile currency and it fractuates often, but Betty is and entrepreneur  and that doesn’t worry her. She’s futuristic, she even accepts a Kenyan coin called Nurucoin. One nurucoin is around Ksh 86 which is not bad for a Kenyan coin but how acceptable will it be?  She told me Crypocurrency is at the stage where the internet was in the 90s, uncertain but see where the internet is now?

Her place, I told you I wouldn’t say the name again, is nice and they have nice coffee and a nice ambience. I sat there having coffee as I waited for her and it is a place I would take my girl for coffee. It is not really uptown but not bad and Betty is doing some renovations at her place. It also has and outdoor space which is not complete but operational for the outdoor person. It is painted yellow, I don’t know why but it is.

So next time you are in Nyeri and you have something in your BITCOIN wallet, go grab coffee at Betty’s Place.