No-bookings restaurants are a giant middle finger to diners. Here are five reasons why hungry people should stop standing in the street
Newsflash: apparently we’re fed up with queueing for tables in no-bookings restaurants. Thanks to a survey by Open Table, whose exhaustive research has exclusively revealed information from inside our own minds, we now know that one in five diners do not consider queueing when hungry to be a barrel of laughs, and that each year, the average Brit spends roughly a full day queuing for restaurants that do not know how to operate a telephone.
Cheers, Open Table. Thanks so much for pointing out that the roiling dyspepsia I experience upon hearing the words: “That’ll be a 45-minute wait” isn’t the sensation of the happiness fairy fluttering around my chest cavity. Oh, and given that you are in fact a restaurant booking system, you’ll excuse me if I assume that your “survey” is not exactly impartial. But, much as it saddens me to say it, I’m sort of glad to see someone – albeit for publicity – raising a fuss about restaurants that have no reservations book. After all, shouldn’t we all be up in arms about these places by now? Haven’t we all accepted that no-bookings restaurants are essentially a gigantic middle finger to diners? We really should have. And here are five reasons why.
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