--- title: Blog - Chu's wine | Cheng-Tao Chu description: "I am a passionate entrepreneur / wine enthusiast. Prior to starting Chu's Wine, the only wine wholesaler which enables restaurants to offer premium wine selection at no cost, I was a Software Architect at Cubist (Point72) Investment ($91.3B AUM) where I lead the engineering initiatives to build the next generation of research/simulation/trading infrastructure for our intraday future trading strategies. Prior to Cubist, I headed various data infrastructure and machine learning initiatives at different companies including Tudor investment ($38.4B AUM), my own startup, Codecademy, Square, LinkedIn and Google where I had gain extremely in-depth yet diversified experience.\nBoth LinkedIn and Square have since IPO'ed . My 2006 paper published in the prestigious NIPS proceedings, \"Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore\", has received over 1,600 citations and is the basis of the open source Apache Mahout library.\n[Blog] ML in the valley: http://ml.posthaven.com\n[Open Source Project] EventHub: http://github.com/Codecademy/EventHub" image: https://blog.chus.wine/hubfs/logo%20square.png --- [Skip to content](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog/author/cheng-tao-chu#main-content) ![Chu's Wine](https://blog.chus.wine/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-nobg-3.png?width=601&height=152&name=logo-nobg-3.png) - [Home](https://www.chus.wine/) - [Blog](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Home](https://www.chus.wine/) - [Blog](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog) - [Contact us](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog/author/cheng-tao-chu#contact) [Contact us](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog/author/cheng-tao-chu#contact) # Premium Wine Program for Every Restaurant [Book a Demo](https://meetings.hubspot.com/cheng-tao) [![](https://blog.chus.wine/hubfs/AI-Generated%20Media/Images/Wine%20Menu%20Design%20Impact%20Restaurant%20Revenue%20And%20Customer%20Satisfaction-1.png)](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog/your-wine-menu-is-costing-you-money-heres-how-to-fix-it) ## [Your Wine Menu Is Costing You Money — Here's How to Fix It](https://blog.chus.wine/en/blog/your-wine-menu-is-costing-you-money-heres-how-to-fix-it) Apr 6, 2026 12:51:47 AM Most restaurant owners obsess over food costs, kitchen efficiency, and front-of-house ambiance. 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