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MargaretDumont t1_j4p3le4 wrote

Reply to comment by decaf_flower in Single file line for a drink at AS220 by AgedParmy

A line would gum up the room. Nobody wants a line in the middle of a bar. Also if you're spread out across the bar you have a place to take your time to pay, a place for them to put your drink down. Things would take much longer if each person had to wait for the person in front of them to move. You spread out and let the bartender do their thing more efficiently than the line can.

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whatsaphoto t1_j4q4jpn wrote

> Things would take much longer if each person had to wait for the person in front of them to move.

Would it though? I could see if there are many bartenders yeah a single file queue would get clogged pretty quickly, but if there's only one person serving they'll only have so much power to get so many people's orders out the door before moving onto the next person. I can't imagine it taking longer/shorter if there were an organized queue or not, there's still going to be time taken to take the order, get the drink, open/close the tab and move on. It's unorthodox, sure, but it doesn't really feel like this should be something worth calling out tbh.

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MargaretDumont t1_j4q59z5 wrote

Yes it would take longer. At a full bar while you're gathering your drink and your wallet and maneuvering out of the way, the bartender has typically already taken two or more orders from the people waiting nearby. Watch a bartender work and they're rarely if ever dealing with one person at a time. And again, no bar needs a line in the middle of it gumming up the flow of the room.

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whatsaphoto t1_j4q5qhg wrote

Fair points. Never considered the overall inconvenience of a physical line cutting through the middle of the room like that either haha

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