It sounds a bit like pre-cloud business IT architecture. Put the servers somewhere on-site. It is really hard to see much new here. 20 years ago you might put

It sounds a bit like pre-cloud business IT architecture. Put the servers somewhere on-site. It is really hard to see much new here. 20 years ago you might put a Windows 2000 server in each restaurant... What's changed is we have better server management tools: ansible/puppet/docker/kube... The reason we moved to the cloud was because the Internet gained massive capacity and there were economies of scale in huge datacenters. What chick-fil-a is doing is'nt wrong, but feels more like the pendulum swinging than actually new tech.