Phumfeinz Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Just got my place at uni confirmed 5 minutes ago. So happy. How old are you? 26 Late bloomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) Edit. Edited July 16, 2014 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted July 16, 2014 Moderator Share Posted July 16, 2014 Tight chest and a pain in the middle of my sternum - a muscle injury from golf or chest AIDS? Sounds a bit heart-attacky... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Hullllooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Seems like I'm another late to the party... Trapped in the closest might be mans greatest ever achievement, at least until operation yew tree gets hold of him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Hullllooooo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Tight chest and a pain in the middle of my sternum - a muscle injury from golf or chest AIDS? Sounds a bit heart-attacky... He he. I apologize for any of the wedding related comments. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted July 17, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2014 I thought this was quite interesting , didn't really know where else to put it A busy NYC restaurant kept getting bad reviews for slow service, so they hired a firm to investigate. When they compared footage from 2004 to footage from 2014, they made some pretty startling discoveries. Like most restaurants in NYC we have a surveillance system, and unlike today where it's a digital system, 10 years ago we still used special high capacity tapes to record all activity. At any given time we had 4 special Sony systems recording multiple cameras. We would store the footage for 90 days just in case we needed it for something. The firm we hired suggested we locate some of the older tapes and analyze how the staff behaved 10 years ago versus how they behave now. We went down to our storage room but we couldn't find any tapes at all. We did find the recording devices, and luckily for us, each device has 1 tape in it that we simply never removed when we upgraded to the new digital system! The date stamp on the old footage was Thursday July 1, 2004. The restaurant was very busy that day. We loaded up the footage on a large monitor, and next to it on a separate monitor loaded up the footage of Thursday July 3 2014, with roughly the same amount of customers as ten years before. I will quickly outline the findings. We carefully looked at over 45 transactions in order to determine the data below: 2004: Customers walk in. They gets seated and are given menus, out of 45 customers 3 request to be seated elsewhere. Customers on average spend 8 minutes before closing the menu to show they are ready to order. Waiters shows up almost instantly takes the order. Appetizers are fired within 6 minutes, obviously the more complex items take longer. Out of 45 customers 2 sent items back. Waiters keep an eye out for their tables so they can respond quickly if the customer needs something. After guests are done, the check delivered, and within 5 minutes they leave.Average time from start to finish: 1:05 2014: Customers walk in. Customers get seated and is given menus, out of 45 customers 18 requested to be seated elsewhere. Before even opening the menu they take their phones out, some are taking photos while others are simply doing something else on their phone (sorry we have no clue what they are doing and do not monitor customer WIFI activity). 7 out of the 45 customers had waiters come over right away, they showed them something on their phone and spent an average of 5 minutes of the waiter's time. Given this is recent footage, we asked the waiters about this and they explained those customers had a problem connecting to the WIFI and demanded the waiters try to help them. Finally the waiters are walking over to the table to see what the customers would like to order. The majority have not even opened the menu and ask the waiter to wait a bit. Customer opens the menu, places their hands holding their phones on top of it and continue doing whatever on their phone. Waiter returns to see if they are ready to order or have any questions. The customer asks for more time. Finally they are ready to order. Total average time from when the customer was seated until they placed their order 21 minutes. Food starts getting delivered within 6 minutes, obviously the more complex items take way longer. 26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food. 14 out of 45 customers take pictures of each other with the food in front of them or as they are eating the food. This takes on average another 4 minutes as they must review and sometimes retake the photo. 9 out of 45 customers sent their food back to reheat. Obviously if they didn't pause to do whatever on their phone the food wouldn't have gotten cold. 27 out of 45 customers asked their waiter to take a group photo. 14 of those requested the waiter retake the photo as they were not pleased with the first photo. On average this entire process between the chit chatting and reviewing the photo taken added another 5 minutes and obviously caused the waiter not to be able to take care of other tables he/she was serving. Given in most cases the customers are constantly busy on their phones it took an average of 20 minutes more from when they were done eating until they requested a check. Furthermore once the check was delivered it took 15 minutes longer than 10 years ago for them to pay and leave. 8 out of 45 customers bumped into other customers or in one case a waiter (texting while walking) as they were either walking in or out of the Restaurant.Average time from start to finish: 1:55 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 My head is shot Least you've got that nice new kitchen to fall back on don't get me started on the bloody kitchen ha, it's been a nightmare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Doing nothing at all in work today, I've been so busy the last 2 weeks had to skip lunches a nice few days and I'm flat out exhausted. VT & The Open for me for the day, boss is off thank god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I'm gonna watch the cricket naked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Just got my place at uni confirmed 5 minutes ago. So happy. How old are you? 26 Late bloomer I'm going at 32..! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Today is really dragging. I've done nothing since about 11.45, and have no desire to do any more work. Bring on 4.15 so I can go home (and do more of nothing! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Today is really dragging. I've done nothing since about 11.45, and have no desire to do any more work. Bring on 4.15 so I can go home (and do more of nothing! ) 4:15? I'm stuck here till half 5 & have done anything since 3pm yesterday when I finished a massive job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I start at 8, so early(ish) finish. It's hard to get motivated when you don't give a shit, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I start at 8, so early(ish) finish. It's hard to get motivated when you don't give a shit, isn't it? Ah that's fair enough then. It is, even harder when there's nobody else in the office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) Just got my place at uni confirmed 5 minutes ago. So happy. Uni starts next week for me. Excited, terrified. Edited July 18, 2014 by legov 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Being at Glastonbury then coming back to a job I have no interest in has really done my swede in. Strongly tempted to give in my notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Just got my place at uni confirmed 5 minutes ago. So happy. How old are you? 26 Late bloomer I'm going at 32..! Will ye be really into the study part now, as in make every class, do the prescribed reading or all about the booze and boobz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Just got my place at uni confirmed 5 minutes ago. So happy. How old are you? 26 Late bloomer I'm going at 32..! Will ye be really into the study part now, as in make every class, do the prescribed reading or all about the booze and boobz. My boobz will be bigger than my fellow students, so deffo the boobiez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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