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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by crispyambulance on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:34PM (#15119382)
Yeah, wherever there's money, there's valuable information.

POS' are a goldmine if you can acquire data from huge numbers of them (unfortunately that's hard).

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Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by mipmap04 on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:47PM (#15119488)
That's definitely true. I would have had to operate at a loss for a while until I could enough data to sell. I never did the math to see how long that period is, but I'm pretty sure it's worse than my back of the napkin calculations.
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