Really? I’ve seen it pretty often when an order is going to take a minute and there’s cars in line behind the slow order.
They also do curbside order pickup, and are one of the only places I can think of where that makes sense (for food orders). Since their system is timed very precisely and already has a queue system, of a person says they want their order at 2, you just drop it in the prep queue the right amount of time beforehand. You also know approximately how many orders of which type you can process at once, so you can disable pickup slots when typical in person orders and booked orders get too close to the threshold.
Every other type of place just has to make the food early to avoid keeping you waiting, and it results in damp steamy food, inevitably.
None of that had anything to do with what you were asking, I just went on a tangent. Some places do curbside pickup, particularly in cities.
Really? I’ve seen it pretty often when an order is going to take a minute and there’s cars in line behind the slow order.
They also do curbside order pickup, and are one of the only places I can think of where that makes sense (for food orders). Since their system is timed very precisely and already has a queue system, of a person says they want their order at 2, you just drop it in the prep queue the right amount of time beforehand. You also know approximately how many orders of which type you can process at once, so you can disable pickup slots when typical in person orders and booked orders get too close to the threshold.
Every other type of place just has to make the food early to avoid keeping you waiting, and it results in damp steamy food, inevitably.
None of that had anything to do with what you were asking, I just went on a tangent. Some places do curbside pickup, particularly in cities.