Saturday, October 22, 2005

Your Wait Is, Like, 15 Minutes. I Swear!

Chance of snow here today! Already? Guess it's time to haul that old Christmas tree to the dump...

At a restaurant last night with a friend and was told it would be 15 - 20 minutes until we could be seated, and the hostess kept telling us that we were 'next' (it actually turned out to be 30 minutes). Four or five other parties all arrived, and they were also given seemingly arbitrary wait times (I was totally mystified when one couple was told 30 minutes, and the couple right after them was told 20). Why can't these restaurants be more honest?... "We'll have a table ready for you in x minutes, where x is a variable anywhere from 5 to 50 minutes."

1 comment:

Kahnman said...

Better yet is when you have reservations for a certain time and they tell you it will be a 30 minute wait.