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Re:Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit (Starbucks ... by dagw on Thursday March 15, 2012 @09:20AM (#3708285)
The one big differences that I can think of is that basically everybody orders the same thing (an espresso) so there is no need to take and manage orders in the same way. This also makes it a lot quicker to prepare the coffee. Also payment is a lot quicker when there is basically one order at one prices.

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