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Customers are spending nearly twice as long at the restaurant because they are busy with their phones, yet the restaurant says "the number of customers we serve
by Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Customers are spending nearly twice as long at the restaurant because they are busy with their phones, yet the restaurant says "the number of customers we serve on a daily basis is almost the same today as it was 10 years ago." How can they serve the same number of customers if each is taking twice as long? Were half of their tables empty 10 years ago?
- informatimago 12y agoor they have more tables. In any case, they conclude by asking people to be more "considerate". Whatever that means. Perhaps there's a market for restaurants where you can be fed in 30 seconds, I could imagine something. Or perhaps there's also a market for more expensive restaurant where you can take time to eat and have other social activities like talking, texting, taking pictures and having pictures of your table be taken. Also perhaps they could widen the space between tables so that we don't bump into one another when walking while texting. Otherwise, it might suggest a feature in smart phones: a little camera on the top side of the phone that would display on the screen when the phone detects movement in that direction. (only the last paragraph was half a joke, the rest is serious).
- dllthomas 12y agoI was quite recently fed in 30 seconds at Umami Burger in Oakland. I placed an order online, walked there en-route to BART, they had my food ready.