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One thing the article doesn't point out is that, in Japan, coffee shops don't usually take your name during your order. This means that the customer must liste
by pixelcort 13y ago
One thing the article doesn't point out is that, in Japan, coffee shops don't usually take your name during your order.
This means that the customer must listen for the name of their drink instead of their name. Also, when two people order the exact same drink, it can be ambiguous who gets the first served drink.
- ska 13y agoThe article does mention this, at the end of the correlation paragraph.
- esolyt 13y ago> In the US, most Starbucks use an explicit correlation identifier by writing your name on the cup and calling it out when the drink is complete. In other countries, you have to correlate by the type of drink.
- officemonkey 13y agoIn my Starbucks, they keep the drinks in a FIFO stack. My drink might be done, but they wait until the other drinks in the queue are delivered before they call mine. This is okay most of the time, but it is annoying when the person in front of me has a large drink order and I can see my drink ready.
- re_todd 13y agoThat sounds like my Starbucks. I was sitting at a table and overheard a customer complaining that they got their coffee after someone that ordered after them. After the customer left, I heard the Starbucks manager explain to the new hire that the "queue" is very important. It thought "wow, this sounds like my old Data Structures class!"
- AYBABTME 13y agoLIFO is a stack, FIFO is a queue =)
- jloughry 13y agoThis topic was explored further in a recent article [1]. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1618 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1618 [1] Cham, J. G., Slackenerny, M. A. and Smith, B. S. Coffee Security: A need-based analysis for infering bio-related buzz-concepts. Intl. J. Temporal Deflective Behavior 4(1618), pp. 396, 2013.