At full service resturants, it is the maître d′s duty to control the pace of orders so they arrive in a steady stream at the kitchen, instead of batches of 20 t

At full service resturants, it is the maître d′s duty to control the pace of orders so they arrive in a steady stream at the kitchen, instead of batches of 20 tickets at once that could easily overwhelm the chefs. The logic here is not dissimilar at all: if the backend has no ability to queue and prioritise the requests, then the same function needs to be done elsewhere to safeguard quality of service.