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Everyone likes to sit down in a restaurant with a nice atmosphere, and sit there, eating and socializing.
But nobody likes waiting in line at Burger Hut or waiting for the waiter at Le Croissantary to get to the table and take the orders.
Instead of all that, you could instead order your meal
(and your guests could, too) through the restaurant's website and it will be delivered to your reserved table. By the time you get there, your food is ready. Or, if you're already at the restaurant, use your laptop or smartphone to order.
Halfbaked
TakeOutEatIn_20Restaurant
[marked-for-deletion] redundant [DrCurry, Nov 18 2007]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
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The latter sentence might form the basis
of a similar entire idea. Instead of
queueueing, go in and order online and
then use the time viewed as wasted by
standing inline, instead in a more
productive manner by wasting it browsing
the web. |
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A place where you "wait in line" is not a
restuarant - it is a "fast food outlet". (Not
to be confused with "fast food outlet" as
an anatomical term.) |
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[MB], // or waiting for the waiter at Le Croissantary to get to the table and take the orders // The service would be more effective because the waiters would spend less time taking orders and more time bringing the food. |
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Sounds cringingly similar to something someone (bungston?) already posted. |
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That idea is nothing like this one. |
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First of all, there is only 1 type of food here, second, its prepared in 1 place, third, you're at that place when you eat, and finally, its digital. |
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Just no. You need to start going to
better restaurants. You arrive, and you
enjoy a drink at the table while you look
at the menu and discuss culinary
possibilities with your companions.
You soak up a little atmosphere,
discuss a few options with the waiter,
nibble a few olives and generally act like
a civilized person in a civilized place. |
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If you want to do point-click-eat-go,
why not opt for a pizza delivery? |
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All this discussion of possibilities and
options, wine and olives, sounds hideously
and pointlessly expensive. |
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The pointless expense is half the point.
Surely, Mr. Tindale, you are being ironic? |
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I don't think so. Even wealthy people want to increase their consumer surplus. |
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And the point of consumer surplus is, in
large measure, to enjoy restaurants. I
can't believe this place is so lacking in
civilization. |
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You're all trying to wind me up, aren't you? |
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All the civilization has diffused outwardly from me. |
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That would imply that, in the initial
condition, there was a greater
concentration of civilization in you than in
the world in general. Long leagues be it
from me to doubt. |
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I just love eating with good friends. We arrive at the table, our food is there. We discuss the mundane differences of each plate, between each delictable mastication. An added point of interaction, usually, is which part of the bill we are obligated to. Oh, the conversations this point brings up. In competition with the raging debates I enjoy on the 'bakery. Of course, the lack of waiting is more than made up by the lack of conversation. |
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If you have never gone to a restaurant and been so engrossed in the discussion that you only realise you have not eaten when you leave, you have not lived. Food is for eating, restaurants are the bricks and mortar 'bakery. |
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Long discussions in restaurants are all well and good; but you can have them anywhere. The most important things to look for in a restaurant are large portions, tasty food, speedy service and well trained waiters. |
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For that reason, I like this idea [+] as it helps the 'speedy service' bit; but that doesn't excuse all the others. |
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What you mean, then, is that you want to
eat by mass, and to be processed and
billed as quickly as possible? 4.5 billion
years of evolution appear to have been a
bit of waste. |
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[admin: I agree that the idea DrCurry links to is different from this one, and am ignoring the marked-for-deletion tag.] |
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