1 year ago

— Panera Bread’s development team had a problem: Its homegrown solution to deploy applications to its more than 2,000 locations nationwide worked about 85% of the time, creating a significant problem and validation gap for the restaurant chain. Each café has a server that runs everything — from the system telling workers how to make the food, to managing the drive-thru timers.

Panera switched to Chef’s Habitat, an open source automation tool for rolling out applications across operating systems and platforms.

Using Habit, they were able to redeploy the old version within 10 minutes — which was a conservative time frame, Canty added.

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