Sun Lounger Wars. First Rodeo.

Sea_Shell

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

Agree too.

We wouldn't order food if we couldn't already get a table!   We'd go elsewhere or get it takeaway, if possible.

But we'd never join a queue that long in the first place....unless we really HAD to!

zagfles

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

greenface2

sunbeds = just returned from Corfu .A Family reserved 4 prime beds by the pool and bar at 4 am because they bragged about it when making an argument to someone who moved their towels at lunchtime and sat down . How did they know their towels had been moved . Because they also reserved 4 beds at the beach at 4am too . The gent came up to argue about it . then returned to his beach bed . , 

Ath_Wat

zagfles said:

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

Why on earth are people queuing  for 30 minutes in a retail store cafeteria in the first place?

zagfles

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

Why on earth are people queuing  for 30 minutes in a retail store cafeteria in the first place?

Because they're hungry? They like the food? Or more likely (applied to me) they don't know the queue is going to take 30 mins when they join it, and by the time the realise how slow it is they figure they may as well continue waiting.
I know in these days of fast food waiting more than 5 mins for your meal is an alien concept to some, but I've often waited 30 mins for food whether in a restaurant, cafe or other eating establishment.

Ath_Wat

zagfles said:

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

Why on earth are people queuing  for 30 minutes in a retail store cafeteria in the first place?

Because they're hungry? They like the food? Or more likely (applied to me) they don't know the queue is going to take 30 mins when they join it, and by the time the realise how slow it is they figure they may as well continue waiting.
I know in these days of fast food waiting more than 5 mins for your meal is an alien concept to some, but I've often waited 30 mins for food whether in a restaurant, cafe or other eating establishment.

Waiting 30 minutes is fine if you sit down and order at a restaurant, not standing in a queue, though, just to grab lunch while shopping.  Surely there were other alternatives if you were hungry, or is this shop out on its own somewhere?  I mean it's not just you doing this, clearly there are enough people willing to stand in a 30 minute queue in this place to create a 30 minute queue in the first place.

zagfles

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

Why on earth are people queuing  for 30 minutes in a retail store cafeteria in the first place?

Because they're hungry? They like the food? Or more likely (applied to me) they don't know the queue is going to take 30 mins when they join it, and by the time the realise how slow it is they figure they may as well continue waiting.
I know in these days of fast food waiting more than 5 mins for your meal is an alien concept to some, but I've often waited 30 mins for food whether in a restaurant, cafe or other eating establishment.

Waiting 30 minutes is fine if you sit down and order, not standing in a queue, though.  Surely there were other alternatives if you were hungry, or is this shop out on its own somewhere?  I mean it's not just you doing this, clearly there are enough people willing to stand in a 30 minute queue in this place to create a 30 minute queue in the first place.

Well, that's your opinion. Clearly, others disagree. Personally, I wouldn't have joined the queue had I realised it'd be 30 mins. It wasn't long, it's just they were slow. The initial delay seemed to be down to them refilling the hot food but it still remained slow afterwards, it seemed they kept running out of stuff.

Some people are prepared to queue way over 30 mins for a 2 minute theme park ride! Sometimes over an hour, or even 2 hours! That I really don't understand!

Roz81

Sea_Shell said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

Agree too.

We wouldn't order food if we couldn't already get a table!   We'd go elsewhere or get it takeaway, if possible.

But we'd never join a queue that long in the first place....unless we really HAD to!

Yes, definitely get a table before ordering.
And even more important - before paying.  Just in case it takes an eternity to get a table and you get too frustrated and decide to leave.  You can't make that decision once you've already paid.

Ath_Wat

Roz81 said:

Sea_Shell said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

Agree too.

We wouldn't order food if we couldn't already get a table!   We'd go elsewhere or get it takeaway, if possible.

But we'd never join a queue that long in the first place....unless we really HAD to!

Yes, definitely get a table before ordering.
And even more important - before paying.  Just in case it takes an eternity to get a table and you get too frustrated and decide to leave.  You can't make that decision once you've already paid.

If you are waiting in a queue at a cafeteria you won't  order or pay until you have already been waiting a long while.  That's the OP's whole point - people were taking up tables for 30 minutes while someone else waited in the queue, while others could have sat at them, finished and been gone before the person they were waiting for even got to order.

Ath_Wat

zagfles said:

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

Ath_Wat said:

zagfles said:

HampshireH said:

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen

It's different in a pub with table service, you have to find a table first and give them a number so they know where to take the food! Also if there's loads of tables available it's obviously not an issue.

It is an issue in a small cafeteria type place where people are queuing for ages and half the tables are taken by people who are just waiting, not eating. There's no need to take up a table while you're in the queue, and then complain when someone else takes a seat on it which they won't need for 30 mins!

Why on earth are people queuing  for 30 minutes in a retail store cafeteria in the first place?

Because they're hungry? They like the food? Or more likely (applied to me) they don't know the queue is going to take 30 mins when they join it, and by the time the realise how slow it is they figure they may as well continue waiting.
I know in these days of fast food waiting more than 5 mins for your meal is an alien concept to some, but I've often waited 30 mins for food whether in a restaurant, cafe or other eating establishment.

Waiting 30 minutes is fine if you sit down and order, not standing in a queue, though.  Surely there were other alternatives if you were hungry, or is this shop out on its own somewhere?  I mean it's not just you doing this, clearly there are enough people willing to stand in a 30 minute queue in this place to create a 30 minute queue in the first place.

Some people are prepared to queue way over 30 mins for a 2 minute theme park ride! Sometimes over an hour, or even 2 hours! That I really don't understand!

I wouldn't do that either, to be fair.