We deal with a challenge of frequent network outages or latency issues... keep in mind that we have locations out in the middle of nowhere with no QoS. There are a variety of loads at the restaurant that require low latency and high up time. On site K8s clusters were a natural fit for that solution.

Trust me, it would have been way easier to just hook this stuff up to the cloud :-P . I still dream that we will be able to some day.