{"id":365,"date":"2006-10-13T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=365"},"modified":"2006-10-13T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T13:23:03","slug":"cue-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/cue-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/35917697\/wait.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to Inc.com<\/a>, if you live in Baltimore, you spend more time in line than any other major metropolitan city.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With an average wait time of 5 minutes, 13 seconds, Baltimore ranked last in the comparison of customer service speed in the 25 most-populous U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose what really matters is what you are waiting for. Personally, I would wait 10 times that long for crab cakes in that town. Now for the coup d&#8217;gras:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Phoenix had the shortest average wait for service at 3 minutes, 5 seconds. Residents of Portland, Ore., finished second, with an average wait time of 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and <strong>Minneapolis came in at third place, with 3 minutes, 41 seconds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Inc.com, if you live in Baltimore, you spend more time in line than any other major metropolitan city. With an average wait time of 5 minutes, 13 seconds, Baltimore ranked last in the comparison of customer service speed in the 25 most-populous U.S. cities. I suppose what really matters is what you are waiting for. Personally, I would wait 10 times that long for crab cakes in that town. Now for the coup d&#8217;gras: Phoenix had the shortest average wait for service at 3 minutes, 5 seconds. Residents of Portland, Ore., finished second, with an average wait time of 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and Minneapolis came in at&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/cue-up\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1381,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/cue-up-for-dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":365,"position":0},"title":"Cue Up For Dinner","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not British so waiting is not my specialty.\u00a0 This factoid is from the JustSell.com daily newsletter: According to the National Restaurant Association, the average consumer is willing to wait 23 minutes for a table for dinner. That number rises slightly to 31 minutes if it's a weekend. 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