Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance

Re:Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old... by throwaway283719 on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:43AM (#8024646)

This started off seeming like it might be a promising article, but by the end it becomes clear that it's just terrible clickbait / blogspam.

The story seems to be "people use phones and social media more now than in 2004, one restaurant in NYC has failed to keep up with this."

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Re:Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old... by falcolas on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:54AM (#8024686)

> one restaurant in NYC has failed to keep up with this

How have they failed to keep up? Customer interactions are taking twice as long and consume significantly more of their staff's time, do we expect them to double their prices to compensate? Charge for Wi-Fi?

I found it to be a fascinating view into how cell phones and the internet have changed our interactions in an every day situation.

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Re:Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old... by gbhn on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:56AM (#8024694)

Well, one clue is that despite spending 10x longer on customer interactions, the waiters are somehow still able to immediately take orders -- no change there.

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Re:Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old... by asdfologist on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:48AM (#8024666)

What's so bad about it? I found it short, insightful, and interesting. And the problem that they described apply to many other restaurants.

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