Under the dim glow of his screens, the Wishmaster pondered the inefficiencies haunting his SPOON project. His enchanted tablets—lightweight devices through which patrons of Primeval Pyre could browse the menu and place orders—were weighed down by complex front-end scripts. Each tablet, delicate yet powerful, struggled beneath the burden of processing and displaying data. So the Wishmaster devised a powerful spell to alleviate this strain: RESTful APIs.

With careful precision, the Wishmaster began weaving RESTful endpoints, turning his SPOON server into a fully-fledged backend system. Each endpoint was crafted with purpose, delivering exactly the data required by the tablets and handling the heavy logic once bound to the front end.

He created RESTful API routes to fetch menu items, submit orders, and add modifications, ensuring that each interaction was structured, fast, and efficient. The SPOON server became an orchestrator, receiving requests from the tablets and transforming them into responses ready to display without extra computation. Now, when a tablet makes its request, the server would return data prepared and formatted, ready to display, with minimal strain on the device.

Yet, even as his RESTful APIs began to take shape, the Wishmaster sensed a lurking presence. Session-based storage—a volatile and unpredictable magic—haunted his progress. This session-based persistence had worked for initial testing but now threatened his refined structure with data that could vanish at any moment.

He knew he needed a more durable solution, one that could be managed on the backend but without the heavy configuration of advanced caching systems like Redis. So, the Wishmaster settled on SQLite, a local database fit for temporarily holding data until orders could be finalized and sent to FORK. Each order, seat number, item, and modification could now rest safely in the temp_orders table, resilient against the instability of sessions.

The new architecture was built not just for stability but for ease. By moving the data and logic to the backend, his RESTful APIs lightened the workload of each tablet, allowing the devices to perform smoothly without computation-heavy scripts. Now, the tablets could simply call upon the backend to fetch, add, or modify data as needed.

In crafting this RESTful approach, the Wishmaster brought together the lightweight persistence of SQLite and the API-driven backend logic of RESTful design. The transformation was complete: a backend system capable of handling both data and computation, leaving the tablets as efficient windows to display the data.

By the session’s end, the Wishmaster beheld a project reborn. With RESTful APIs powering his backend, a secure data persistence layer in SQLite, and the tablets freed from their earlier burdens, SPOON had evolved into a robust platform. The polymorph spell had worked its magic, and the SPOON server now stood ready to meet the demands of Primeval Pyre.