Probably nothing more than a requirement for resiliency. With thousands of restaurants, chances of a couple of them losing connectivity each day are going to b

Probably nothing more than a requirement for resiliency. With thousands of restaurants, chances of a couple of them losing connectivity each day are going to be pretty good, through traditional interruptions like backhoes digging up cables and drunk drivers taking out telephone poles. If those messages are discarded because the store can't talk to MSK (or MSK is unavailable), then things like automatic replenishment based on order volume couldn't happen. The store manager would have to do a daily physical inventory count to know how many bags of fries, boxes of drink straws, etc. to reorder.