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It's putting spin on old technology. This all sounds like something that could have been done in the 70s, and was mainstream in the 80s. The dashboards are pro
by nitwit005 9y ago
It's putting spin on old technology. This all sounds like something that could have been done in the 70s, and was mainstream in the 80s.
The dashboards are probably way prettier now though.
- majormajor 9y agoShoot, I'd bet money it's been done for decades if not even longer by good waitstaffs. I know that I've been recognized by employees at places I go to frequently, and media depictions of people being asked if they want "the usual" seem to predate widespread computers. Slightly dystopian in that regard: let's take something that used to be part of being good at your job and building a rapport with your customers, and outsource it to a machine.
- dogruck 9y agoGoogling for restaurant notes yields a bunch of relevant news stories about such information management. Here's one in the New Yorker, from 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/dining/what-restaurants-know-about-you.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/dining/what-restaurants-kn... Here's another from May of this year: http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/the-incognito-way-this-restaurant-labels-its-customers/ http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/the-incognito-way-this-restaura...