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by party_possum 774 days ago
One of the last bastions of ugly/functional design I encounter on a regular basis is restaurant/bar Point of Sale systems. Look over the host's shoulder at a busy restaurant and you'll see something that looks like it just woke up from a nap it took in 1995. Do an image search for "restaurant POS" and you'll see what I mean.

Even this is changing though. Online SaaS POS platforms have to be "beautiful" and "modern" to sell to startup restauranteurs, so they're slowly just becoming fashionable websites. But in most large/busy/established restaurants, you'll see people running software that would make an art school grad weep.

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I think I know what you mean. I guess one reason could be what a restaurant, especially an established one, prioritizes.