shabby

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   by shabby 19y ago

   So, why won't a big restaurant chain try out order-at-table? 6% net margins. Small changes in restaurants can result in big changes to the bottom line, either good or bad. And, changing the customer experience is considered a big change.
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   by shabby 19y ago

   The first problem is that existing restaurants have POS systems that are (1) expensive, and (2) essential for operations. If you want to build an order-at-the-table system that reduces workload, you have to integrate with the POS system or
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   by shabby 19y ago

   I spent a year of my life shopping a business plan for the tablets-at-the-table concept. I made a prototype system and tested it extensively at a restaurant. Guests loved it. Men came up with all kinds of efficiency-based reasons why the
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   by shabby 19y ago

   And the memory footprint thing.... I understand the concern for mobile/embedded stuff and don't know much about how well Java does there. However, when a half gig of RAM for a server costs well under $100, it just doesn't matter much for re
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   by shabby 19y ago

   I have a similar technique for phone screens. Candidates are told to do the interview where they can receive email. To avoid cheating, we send them a couple of code snippets right as we call them. Then, we talk about the code. We found th
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   by shabby 19y ago

   I work in a Java shop but do some statistical work using R. For me, Java is the easiest way to gather together data for an analysis. R is the clear winner over Java for doing statistical modeling. Gluing them together is possible, and so