Re:Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
by tedmiston on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:05AM
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In that case, you're lucky. It varies a lot.
While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes.
We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.
While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes.
We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.