re: What is your max time you will wait for a table?

7 minutes after you sit to get water?,that is terrible.

Lunch - 1 minute
Supper with no bar - 15
Supper with bar - 45

A really nice restaurant, weeks to months. If the restaurant doesn't take reservations, precisely zero minutes. I understand that some nights are more crowded than others and I'll go back another time if I want to try it. If the restaurant is always on a wait, though, I just won't eat there. I'm not wasting my time in a lobby and rewarding a restaurant's inability or unwillingness to properly manage their crowd; any restaurant really worth waiting for will properly manage their crowd with reservations.

I will never understand the average idiot's willingness to wait an hour for something like Outback.

Depends on the place. I'm not waiting an hour for a place with basic food like Sammy's. However, I've been told an hour at many places and it ended up being 15 or so minutes. So if it's a place I really want to try, I'll wait at the bar.

I don't wait. If they don't have a table when I show up, i move on to the next place.

20-30 minutes tops.

It's a reason why I avoid hot spots that don't take reservation.

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7 minutes after you sit to get water?,that is terrible.

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Not quite the same, it was 2 mins for greeting, and 5 more mins for drinks, but this was max, mostly happened well before this. The drinks depended on if it was just soft drinks or drinks from the bar (that took a little longer).

It worked very well. We had runners, so the waiter didn't have to worry about that.

We had rules such as every table had a #1 chair assigned to it, so the waiter would place the food order with #1 chair than go around the table clockwise, so the runners would not walk up to the table asking who had what. Unless it was a large table, all plates were placed in front of customers at the exact same time.

It was a nice restaurant with great food, too bad it sold some time later then finally closed.

When I worked there, it was owned by the company that also owned Einsteins, Cowtippers, The Martini Bar, the Speak Easy, and Mystic Pizza. They were the happening places in Atlanta in 1996. Einstein's and Cowtippers were (still are) a large gay community restaurants. Best customers to have, tip well, easy to serve, etc.

Cheyenne Grille (were I managed), was in Buckhead, and we also had a side Martini/Cigar Bar.

really depends on the food. But, i can't see waiting an hour anywhere.

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