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Restaurant loyalty programs increasingly use personal data to decide which guests receive which offers, and that raises a question many chains would find hard to answer from their own records: which guests pay more than the menu price, which pay less, and why.

For the past several years, the quick service restaurant industry has operated under a straightforward assumption: consumers are feeling the effects of inflation and economic uncertainty, so the brands that win will be those that charge the least.