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Restaurants
By: Mac Date: February 6, 2012, 12:04 pm
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Let's start of with something weird
[glow=red,2,300]Modern Toilet
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At Modern Toilet restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan, enjoy the dining
comfort of a toilet seat and sip something from a glass that
resembles urinal.
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Re: Restaurants
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 6, 2012, 1:19 pm
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What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?!
I wonder how many smartasses try to actually use them once
seated.
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Re: Restaurants
By: Mac Date: July 13, 2014, 12:23 pm
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Need to take news with a grain of salt, but from my
observations, I see a lot of this...
... my step daughter being a prime example. She takes a picture
of all her meals... and posts them to her media sites.
I asked once... why?
Nevermind, no matter what her reason is, it won't make sense.
[glow=red,2,300]NY Restaurant Figures Out Surprising Reason for
Customer Complaints[/glow]
The owners of a NYC restaurant were receiving far more
complaints than they used to about the kitchen speed and quality
of service, so they decided to go to surveillance tapes to
figure out the issue. The answers, which they posted to
Craigslist, were not what they expected.
The owners of the unnamed restaurant had noticed that online
reviews (UGH) had pegged them for slow service/wait times. They,
too, had noticed that customers appeared to be sitting longer
than they used to, despite the expansion of the staff and the
slimming down of the menu. Fortunately, they had surveillance
tapes from 2004 and from 2014, so they could compare and
contrast what had been and what was going on. The answers were
mind-boggling, to say the least.
Here's a side-by-side cut of what they discovered:
[quote]2004: They gets [sic] seated and are given menus, out of
45 customers 3 request to be seated elsewhere.
2014: Customers get seated and is given menus, out of 45
customers 18 requested to be seated elsewhere.[/quote]
[quote]2004: Customers on average spend 8 minutes before closing
the menu to show they are ready to order.
2014: Before even opening the menu they take their phones
out, some are taking photos while others are simply doing
something else on their phone (sorry we have no clue what they
are doing and do not monitor customer WIFI activity).
7 out of the 45 customers had waiters come over right away,
they showed them something on their phone and spent an average
of 5 minutes of the waiter's time. Given this is recent footage,
we asked the waiters about this and they explained those
customers had a problem connecting to the WIFI and demanded the
waiters try to help them.
Finally the waiters are walking over to the table to see
what the customers would like to order. The majority have not
even opened the menu and ask the waiter to wait a bit.
Customer opens the menu, places their hands holding their
phones on top of it and continue doing whatever on their phone.
Waiter returns to see if they are ready to order or have any
questions. The customer asks for more time.
Finally they are ready to order. Total average time from
when the customer was seated until they placed their order 21
minutes.[/quote]
[quote]2004: Appetizers are fired within 6 minutes, obviously
the more complex items take longer.
Out of 45 customers 2 sent items back.
2014: Food starts getting delivered within 6 minutes,
obviously the more complex items take way longer.
26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking
photos of the food.
14 out of 45 customers take pictures of each other with the
food in front of them or as they are eating the food. This takes
on average another 4 minutes as they must review and sometimes
retake the photo.
9 out of 45 customers sent their food back to reheat.
Obviously if they didn't pause to do whatever on their phone the
food wouldn't have gotten cold.[/quote]
OK, I'm going to pause this right here to say: you are terrible,
people who do this. Please just stop. Tom Haverford was created
to mock you, not to be your glorious prophet, a beacon for the
coming age of cheese sandwich pictures.
[quote]2004: After guests are done, the check delivered, and
within 5 minutes they leave.
Average time from start to finish: 1:05
2014: 27 out of 45 customers asked their waiter to take a
group photo. 14 of those requested the waiter retake the photo
as they were not pleased with the first photo. On average this
entire process between the chit chatting and reviewing the photo
taken added another 5 minutes and obviously caused the waiter
not to be able to take care of other tables he/she was serving.
Given in most cases the customers are constantly busy on
their phones it took an average of 20 minutes more from when
they were done eating until they requested a check. Furthermore
once the check was delivered it took 15 minutes longer than 10
years ago for them to pay and leave.
8 out of 45 customers bumped into other customers or in one
case a waiter (texting while walking) as they were either
walking in or out of the Restaurant.
Average time from start to finish: 1:55[/quote]
The restaurant ends the Craigslist posting with a plea for
courtesy:
[quote]We are grateful for everyone who comes into our
restaurant, after all there are so many choices out there. But
can you please be a bit more considerate?[/quote]
It goes without saying that this might be (and probably is)
entirely made up. There's literally no evidence other than a
Craigslist posting, so yes, shout "FAKE" all you want, internet
people — we're already well aware.
Still, for me and every other server I know, it lines up with
experiential evidence — I can't count the number of times I had
customers not eat their food for the first five minutes after it
was at the table, then complain that it was cold. People bumping
into other tables because they were looking at their phones is
also ringing a familiar bell. Also, I swear to God every time I
see someone take a picture of their food in a restaurant, I want
to brain them with their plate.
Basically, I just really, really hate Instagram and want this to
be true, even if it probably isn't.
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Re: Restaurants
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 13, 2014, 4:06 pm
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I do scratch my head at how some people will take a pic of EVERY
meal. With that said, if I was lucky enough to eat at a 5 star
restaurant and have a famous chef cook my dish and it looked
awesome, I'd probably take a pic or two. But I'll never be the
one that takes a pic of every Big Mac I order.
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