Restaurant Watches Old Surveillance And Shares Shocking Results On Craigslist
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FILEMAKER, but I found this article a fascinating look at how smart phones have changed so much of our culture. This NYC restaurant looked into why they started getting more complaints about slow service. It turned out they had some surveillance tapes from ten years ago, so they did some comparisons to present day. The results were startling, to say the least:
2004:
Customers walk in.
They gets seated and are given menus, out of 45 customers 3 request to be seated elsewhere.
Customers on average spend 8 minutes before closing the menu to show they are ready to order.
Waiters shows up almost instantly takes the order…
Average time from start to finish: 1:052014:
Customers walk in.
Customers get seated and is given menus, out of 45 customers 18 requested to be seated elsewhere.
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…
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
I left out some of the details–you need to follow the link to read it all and get a full appreciation of how things have changed so much in just ten years.
Restaurant Watches Old Surveillance And Shares Shocking Results On Craigslist.