Another idea: Maybe they want the restaurant software to continue running locally if it is offline, but they want to sync data while online. This would make a

Another idea: Maybe they want the restaurant software to continue running locally if it is offline, but they want to sync data while online. This would make a lot of sense with something like CockroachDB - if the restaurant was offline, their local data would be preserved. But, as soon as it goes back online, then corporate would have access to all of the data.