You are on your way to a restaurant craving for delicious food, you get to the restaurant, you smell the food in the air, you can see people eating what it seems to be the most delicious meal on the planet, all of your senses get activated, now you are starving. You ask the hostess for a table and the response is “There are 10 tables before you”, your desire is to scream to the hostess, but you keep it together and ask “how long does it take for those 10 tables to be seated?” the response is “45 minutes” , now you want to cry or punch her, depending on your style.
The hunger keeps growing minute by minute, smell by smell, you don’t know how to keep your sanity any longer. 45 minutes have passed, you are finally sited and now you need to wait for your waiter, for the people to decide what they want to order, for the food to be ready and to be delivered. Your own personal hell.
We have all been there and if you are anything like me, all of my thoughts after I heard “10 tables before you” are how can I reduce the world population so that I don’t live like this any longer? Since reducing part of the world population might not solve the problem and could create different more problematic ones I have never opted for that solution, so I kept struggling on how to never wait on line.
After years of living in a city with more than 6 million hungry souls like me, I have come to the realization that lines are inevitable but being prepared for them is not. How? Google it. Yes easy as that might sound, google the place you want to go and check the reviews, all people hate lines (and if you like them I honestly believe you come from Mars) and when it gets too bad people more often than not will let a review saying “go early or be ready wait” or something similar and you need to be ready.
How you can be ready?
- Get early, you will get the best service from rested waiters and with no lines.
- Make a reservation, in some cases, this would even get you a free dessert.
- Change places, if the place has a bad rep for big lines, change it before you get there.
I know what you are thinking “the problem is not solved, the lines are still there” and I know that but I have not yet figure out how to skip lines all together but once step a time will get you far, and so far I am happy with this, so happy that I now leave reviews on restaurants, especially if they have long lines.