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6 U.S. Business Sectors Still Running on Software That Wasn't Built for Them

  Healthcare and fintech get most of the attention when people talk about industry-specific software, and there's a good reason for that. Both have obvious regulatory stakes if the software gets something wrong. But plenty of other sectors run into the same core problem without the same spotlight. A restaurant group, a fitness studio chain, a logistics company: none of these face HIPAA fines, but all of them get stuck trying to run a specialized operation through software built for a generic one. Bitcot's page on industry-specific software development lists several of these sectors directly, alongside the more commonly discussed ones. Here's what actually goes wrong in each, and what software built specifically for the job looks like instead. Food & beverage A restaurant or food business runs on timing. A restaurant on any given night is juggling orders from a POS terminal, a couple of delivery apps, phone calls, and maybe a kiosk out front, and every one of those o...