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Turkey and cheese on a roll. if youre one of these customers at village cheese shop in palo alto california that sandwich looks like lunch. but if youre lindsay hiken, the owner here that sandwich looks like data, raw data. >> these are their bread choices, these are their spread choices, meat, cheese, toppings. if they wanted any deli side. >> at the 50 year deli shop which lins say has owned and operated since 2007 she turns everything into a number. >> weve been open 19 minutes, weve made 266...

Their information too late. >> they may have overpaid six months. theres money left on the table when you wait until you arbitrarily notice. >> food costs are not the only numbers she monitors. lindsay also uses breadcrumb software to track the cash in the cash register. >> we assigned a single cashier to a register. if theres a consistent she works every wednesday, every wednesday the cash register is short you can tell. >> alan says this kind of access to data allows owners to make decisions a...

And suddenly found herself with an empty nest. she took a class in quilting fell in love with the craft and found she was a natural. inventing short cuts that allowed her to block, stitch, patch far faster than everyone in their class. >> i had made 12 of them by the time i was done. i was so addicted. >> with the economy shaky in 2008 and ron near retirement the doane children were concerned that the parents had little money for their golden years. since jenny was spending so much time on her n...