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by Kerbonut 731 days ago
Treat each drive through ordering system as an edge compute location, run the software right there and then transmit only the order instead of streaming audio from the ordering system.
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Edge compute requires field IT for servicing. You can hire 3-4 employees for the price of a single field service specialist.

Servicing industrial edge compute is insanely expensive for B&M businesses. This is a big part of why so many companies have spent the last decade offloading everything humanly possible to public cloud workloads.