[bgill]

Do the math. The restaurant has X amount of seating. It’s open X number of hours. If the customers took 1 hour per seating in the past but now they’re taking 2 hours per seating, then how can the restaurant still serve as many customers? Simple math shows they can only serve half the number they were in the past.

[discostu]

Only if they were regularly at capacity before. If on the other hand they regularly ran at 1/3 to 1/2 capacity there’s plenty of room for people to take longer.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually that’s not a problem - as the other reply stated.

What concerns me here is the lack of info, except to claim it’s in NYC. No name of restaurant.

Expecting this to appear on Snopes.

But, completely believable. People ARE obnoxiously pathetic about their relationship with a device.

My husband thinks what is odd is about the recording system - too much the same for 10 years passing.

[Swordmaker]

Do the math. The restaurant has X amount of seating. It’s open X number of hours. If the customers took 1 hour per seating in the past but now they’re taking 2 hours per seating, then how can the restaurant still serve as many customers? Simple math shows they can only serve half the number they were in the past.

You are assuming 100% occupancy in both time period at the venue. . . looking at the time it took to be seated, it wasn't.