News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining. Parent comment

Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by majormajor on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:32PM (#15121023)
Shoot, I'd bet money it's been done for decades if not even longer by good waitstaffs.

I know that I've been recognized by employees at places I go to frequently, and media depictions of people being asked if they want "the usual" seem to predate widespread computers.

Slightly dystopian in that regard: let's take something that used to be part of being good at your job and building a rapport with your customers, and outsource it to a machine.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining by dogruck on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:54PM (#15121385)
Googling for restaurant notes yields a bunch of relevant news stories about such information management.

Here's one in the New Yorker, from 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/dining/what-restaurants-kn...

Here's another from May of this year: http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/the-incognito-way-this-restaura...

[ Parent | on HN ]