Measuring Queue-Ticket Integrity

A Five-Level Maturity Model for the Deli Counter, the Butcher's Number Board, and the Food-Truck Call

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement builds a five-level Queue-Ticket Integrity Maturity Model scoring supermarket deli counters, strip-mall butchers, and food-truck order boards on duplicate and expired ticket handling cross-checked against EFTPOS transaction timestamps, and reports a loyalty scheme's decision to keep restricting its featured-store locator to traders holding Level Three regardless of what a covert re-audit later finds.

@misc{slop_s9dqbb,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Renke Sabel and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Measuring Queue-Ticket Integrity: A Five-Level Maturity Model for the Deli Counter, the Butcher's Number Board, and the Food-Truck Call},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.s9dqbb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-establish-a-five-level-s9dqbb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}