"The restaurants’ productivity growth rates are strongly correlated, however, with reductions in the amount of time their customers spend in the establishments, particularly with a rising share of customers spending 10 minutes or less. The frequency of such ‘take-out’ customers rose considerably during COVID, even at fast food restaurants, and never went back down."
Well, duh.
I feel I'm in the way eating in a restaurant when 90% of their business is filling DoorDash/Uber orders.
Restaurants are closing earlier. 8 PM closing isn't unusual now. By then, the delivery business has dried up, and they want the onsite customers to clear out.
I previously mentioned a place in Silicon Valley near Apple HQ where not only did they want onsite customers to order via a QR-code menu, they tried to get customers to go through onboarding and set up an account. Eating onsite was simply a delivery with a very short distance, bag and all.
I hate places like that, and I especially hate still being asked to tip 18 (or often 20) to 25 percent when I effectively did everything myself, including picking up my order (often in plastic containers, for my daily dose of microplastics and other funs tuff), getting water, and clearing my table.
Fortunately that's still the exception rather than the norm where I live, but I try to actively avoid such experiences.
Well, duh.
I feel I'm in the way eating in a restaurant when 90% of their business is filling DoorDash/Uber orders.
Restaurants are closing earlier. 8 PM closing isn't unusual now. By then, the delivery business has dried up, and they want the onsite customers to clear out.
I previously mentioned a place in Silicon Valley near Apple HQ where not only did they want onsite customers to order via a QR-code menu, they tried to get customers to go through onboarding and set up an account. Eating onsite was simply a delivery with a very short distance, bag and all.
Of course "productivity" is up.