MY WIFE wanted to shop, I’d had my fill and suggested she go ahead while I had a coffee in the new super comfortable restaurant.
Clearly a sensible choice, but no procedures had to be followed. Once started, there was no way out.
I will enumerate...
1 Wait to be allocated a seat in the empty restaurant (five minutes)
2 Wait for the waiter/waitress to take my order – “Flat white, please” (ten minutes).
3 Waiter/waitress goes to the counter and submits order (ten minutes)
4 Barista completes order and shouts: “Flat white ready” (15 minutes)
5 Waiter reports to barista and collects flat white (ten minutes)
6 Cold flat white delivered, rather past its best but drunk (15 minutes)
7 Wife about finished shopping but no time left to get a coffee (ten minutes)
8 Ask for bill (ten minutes)
9 Waiter/waitress goes to cashier and seeks the bill (ten minutes)
10 Cashier seeks confirmation as to what I have had (ten minutes).
11 Cashier prepares bill (ten minutes)
12 Waiter/waitress collects bill and delivers for payment (ten minutes)
13 Bill delivered and payment made (ten minutes)
14 Waiter/waitress delivers payment to cashier (ten minutes)
15 I shout to the waiter/waitress: “Keep the change” (five minutes)
16 Leave the restaurant (Total: two hours and 15 minutes). Is this what makes Britain great?
Keith Wareham, Linton Road, Nether Poppleton, York.
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