Jim Choate writes:
You sound jaded to me Tim.
As I have alluded in another post, seems the perfect oportunity for doing some building if one considers it a base system. I have worked on some
Go to it, then. I'm not jaded, just well-aware that most of what is now floating around the suddenly-trendy idea of the Digital Superduperway is little more than hype. Misplaced zeal, confusing tangential developments with real progress. Much like libertarians assuming the space program is something they should somehow be working on. Pizza Hut is merely taking orders a slightly different way. Nothing more, and nothing to build on. In fact, working with them would of course slow down real efforts, as one got stuck in the cheesy workings of an encrusted bureaucracy. But don't let me discourage any others from putting on a chef's hat, slicing up some pepperoni, and helping them get "on-line." --Tim May
fries you would never eat there again!). At the present time they use the systems for record keeping only. But knowing the big boys as I do (take that one as you want) I suspect they will want to crawl before they walk.
First get folks used to using it for order only, then later on add some form of 'shell' where a limited form of credit (purchased off-line) can be used (minimizes if not eliminates spoofing of credit). As the folks get more used to it then add even more features. Sounds a lot like fishing...:)
Take care.
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