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Wait Time
In a recent restaurant review on Yelp.com - someone wrote:
...The last time I was here it was an agonizing wait; granted it was a Friday evening but still for arriving at 7:40 and for 3 people to not be seated until 9 is just crazy. Maybe I would have gone elsewhere if they had been honest about the wait time, but they said 20 min...
My open question: In that situation, how long would YOU wait? Would you wait at all? I'm curious to read your thoughts - so please click and share your comments!
...The last time I was here it was an agonizing wait; granted it was a Friday evening but still for arriving at 7:40 and for 3 people to not be seated until 9 is just crazy. Maybe I would have gone elsewhere if they had been honest about the wait time, but they said 20 min...
My open question: In that situation, how long would YOU wait? Would you wait at all? I'm curious to read your thoughts - so please click and share your comments!
5 Comments
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Comment by Infytur on February 20, 2009 at 11:16pm - I guess it depends on how far away the next place was. Not more than 15 minutes beyond the 20?
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Comment by Mary Jones on February 21, 2009 at 1:04pm -
I might wait 10 minutes beyond the 20, but I wouldn't wait beyond that. It's not worth it. I certainly wouldn't wait an hour and twenty minutes--not unless my friends refused to leave, and even then I'd probably consider leaving anyway.
I was down the shore for Valetine's and my husband had made reservations at the restaurant, and it was fine. But there were people showing up at the restaurant without reservations, and waiting for two hours just to get a seat. That's just really stupid--give up and go home and make some pasta.
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Comment by Robert Drake on February 21, 2009 at 1:17pm - yea - i agree - esp. on the fact that to head out for Valentine's Dinner and not have reservations ?! It's one of the craziest nights for the year in the restaurant community ... amateurs hehe :)
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Comment by Christina on March 21, 2009 at 1:18am - id wait about 3o min to an hour if it was a place that i really wanted to eat at. On a fri night any place you go to will prob be an hour wait. But if they told you 20 min and it ended up being an hour, thats crazy. I would have left.
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Comment by Kurt on May 27, 2009 at 8:03pm - If they say anything less than a half hour I'm OK with that. If that turns out to be false (the time is longer than they said) I go elsewhere. I need to eat. LOL
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