To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining

Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by bungie4 on Monday August 28, 2017 @01:52PM (#15118617)

I know a restaurant that is fantastic. It seats hundreds, yet they all feel private. The decor is meticulous down to the last detail. Theirs fresh flowers on every table, they serve dishes from a hundred lands. No dish takes longer than 10 minutes from order time, and, no dish costs more than $20. They have the most extensive wine list in North America. They have free valet parking, in fact, if you don't have a car, they'll send a limo to pick you up and, bring you home, free of charge.

They went out of business though.

Their food sucked.

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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by saganus on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:29PM (#15118900)

How can a restaurant have such service (limo from- and to- home??) and have bad food?

I mean, I can imagine the food being "just good" (not great). But sucky food? With such a great wine list?

Something sounds terribly off with the.management of that buisness.

Can you share the name? Or is it something like a chain restaurant?

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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by jdmichal on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:47PM (#15119029)

I think the story is meant to be allegorical.

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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by saganus on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:47PM (#15120778)

Ah.

It might be. Didn't think about it that way.

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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by komali2 on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:16PM (#15118802)

Well it sounds like they were also jetting money out of every artery.

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