Here's the current line to get into my favorite BBQ place.
How long would you wait in line for a restaurant? How long have you waited in the past?
>>7679262
Did the restaurant provide the chairs or did people bring them?
>>7679279
It's a hipster restaurant the owner has everyone bring they're on tables and chairs if you don't bring a table you sit on the floor. It's pretty cool
>>7679262
Why don't they just make a reservation before they go?
Never more than 15 minutes, and that would be a Saturday night/special occasion place that you traveled a significant distance to get to.
A huge line to me is called poor customer service. And I don't patronize places with poor customer service. A business needs to find a way to meet demand, if they can't, then I go elsewhere.
That said, BBQ can be exceptionally good, and I'd guess OP's pic is a bunch of regulars who know about and expect the line. They treat it like tailgating at a football game, its part of the fun for them. No reasonable person would wait to eat, unless waiting is a built-in part of the experience. At least popular places often have a bar where you can drink, but sitting/standing outdoors? Or even in a cramped waiting area... NOPE, move on.
>>7679312
Get a load of this faggot
>>7679262
I've waited about 25 minutes for Stubbs BBQ in Austin, it was pretty good.
Also, your picture is from Franklin's in Austin as well, I just googled it to make sure. It's pretty good as well.
>>7679262
I don't wait in line if I can avoid it. If I want to check out a place where I know people wait on line I will go at an odd hour, like 4:30 on a Tuesday.
That said I have lined up for good BBQ because sometimes there is no choice.
austin got ruined by all the californians who swarmed it after they ruined their state
>>7679262
> wait in line
this is some Anglo pleb bullshit I won't put up with
you people love lines
line at the club
line at the restaurant
line at the fucking museum where there's actually no fucking need for a fucking line
no, fuck all y'all, I either make a reservation or just go somewhere else that isn't jam-packed
not that fucking hard to pick up a phone, either
>>7679312
>not going early and spending 3 hours there while you watch the poor fucks calm their kids who cry of hunger
That's how it's part of the experience
>>7679486
Lol where the fuck do you live? Here in Texas no single place worth eating takes reservations. The places that do, you don't need them.
>>7679376
A lot of them are trying to make the city ban outside smokers.
Because they don't like the smoke and smell permeating around their houses.
I've waited about 2 hours for La Barbecue. It went by easy because they gave away free beer.
>>7679503
Those parents are absolutely selfish and shouldn't be parents.
>>7679629
Your point? everybody knows ex-californians are intolerable. They're hideuous.
>>7679629
i remember living in austin until 2009. went back in 2014. the city had banned plastic grocery bags and you had to pay for them. the grocery store staff looked at me like i was a rapist when i tried to bag my own groceries with them.
I waited around 40 minutes for a bowl of Ramen in Tokyo after I checked out of my hotel. It was worth it 2bh.
>>7679639
let me guess. chicken stock, scallions, ginger, salt, pepper, some sugar, water.
and noodles.
wow. thats so worth the wait.
I waited about half an hour for a ramen place in downtown vancouver, it was kind of worth it but not really. I decided that when I want lunch, I want it at that time, not an hour later, so I'm not going to wait, it's not worth it, food is a big part of my life but no restaurant is good enough for that. if it's legendary and busy, I'll make a reservation.
>>7679641
Wrong. It was from Kikanbo Spicy Ramen. I would post the pic but I'm on my phone and it is too large.
>>7679604
yurp, i think you call it
>>7679658
What do you mean, "Wrong"?
I listed the ingredients you waited like 3 days for. Not the place. Tard.
>>7679604
>in Texas not a single place worth eating takes reservations
>Oxheart
>Consistently voted one of the top 5 best restaurants in Houston, often placing number 1 or 2 with a relatively quite cheap (for a fine dining tasting menu type place) meal
>only takes reservations
>>7679662
My b. No, it wasn't the type of Ramen you listed.
>>7679604
Just because you don't need to make reservations when you go to Olive Garden and Chili's for your "fancy" dinner every week with the rest of the trailer trash doesn't mean that no restaurants in the entire state worth eating at take reservations.
>>7679296
>it's a hipster restaurant
I was old and got laid off by the coal mine before it was cool
>>7679731
> I love capitalism so much I'll cheer as it inevitably races toward the bottom
die class traitor
>>7679759
Hot Doug's closed a couple years ago.
The few times I went I waited 10-15 minutes tops, which is all I'm willing to wait for anything.
>>7679262
That is obviously a pic from faggot tier Franklin's, which can suck monkey dick and balls. There's SO MUCH better bbq than that faggoty hipster bullshit in the Hill Country.
>>7679604
Shut the fuck up, you know nothing. I'd love to see you get in for dinner at Green Pastures without a reservation, redneck.
>>7679845
Did it ever occur to you that lead battery disposal and porn and spam gangs are never in your interests to have as part of the local economy?
High cost of living is usually a symptom that the state is doing something right. If happiness is impossible for you unless you can fuck chickens and discharge firearms from your front yard, it is your freedom to move elsewhere.
>>7679629
>A lot of them are trying to make the city ban outside smokers.
Ban smokers, in Texas? Dude, fuck Californians.
>>7682190
Texas is better off being leveled and redone by humans. I'm OK with this
>>7679262
i generally wont wait. 15 mins or im out, plenty of good food out there. I have waited 2 hours for pizzeria bianco before. It was kinda of thing so I didnt have a choice, how ever I just spent the whole time in the bar next door so it wasnt *really* waiting.
Im from NY, I don't wait online for anything. Restaurant has a line, walk across the street, end of block, around the corner for another great place. My favorite Pizza, Italian, Chinese and Thai places are all less than 2 blocks from m house. Other great restaurants just a bit further up the street ... and Im in Queens not Mnhttn. I love good metro areas with lots of stuff.
>>7679376
This.
Austin has always been a containment zone.
Regardless, the entire city should be burnt to the ground.
>>7682680
>my studio apartment doesnt have an adequate kitchen so i have to eat out every meal
>i don't have a car so i have to walk
>walking 2 blocks to eat a greasy pizza is convenient, culturally enriched and classy
>>7682716
What tv shows are you watching? Do you know anything about NY? I have a 4 bedroom, house with a large kitchen, 2 car garage (Lexus Es 350 and Rx 350), front and backyards. Its like you think there are no real neighbourhoods. Its a big city and your ignorance shows.
You would probebly be surprised that people live lives like any ordinary city.
My front yard faces Forest Park. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/realestate/woodhaven-queens-subway-stops-and-hiking-trails.html?referer=
>>7682749
"front and back yards"
lol is that what you call the 10 sq foot patch of dirt in front of your house?
>>7682755
>muh lawn
Stay in your levittown where you belong
>>7679343
>stubbs
your'e a little faggot
>>7679376
Californian here. A bunch of my friends have been moving to Austin lately, and I don't get it. Fuck Texas. I went to Oregon, and it's much better here. The "too many Californians" meme is here too though. It's funny because so many people from all over move to California, so it's hard to pinpoint a particular state and blame them for things you don't like. I bet lots of people that spout the "too many Californians" meme have lived in California or at least visited there at some point.
i don't wait
i make a reservation or find somewhere else
fuck hype
I would wait zero minutes tops.
If there's a wait, I would just go somewhere else.
Nothing personnel, kid.
Fuck waiting in line like that. I live in Florida and I've never seen anything like that garbage. Even the little famous places like Munchies are productive enough that you don't have to wait in a fucking line so long you need chairs. And all the really nice places usually need a reservation unless you get crazy lucky. This is why everyone hates the West Coast, we might be assholes, but you're a bunch of faggots.
>>7682849
>west coast
>picture is texas
nigga kill yourself
>>7682812
fuck off, cali
>>7679262
>People wait 3hrs in line for 20$ per lb meat and regular store bought pickles and onions
Never because I can cook my own food
>>7682913
t. Poorfag
>>7679262
>How long would you wait in line for a restaurant?
About an hour if I knew it was gonna be busy.
>How long have you waited in the past?
An hour or so for the Magpie in Whitby, once. But that was 'the second-best fish and chip restaurant in the world' at the time, and the first best didn't take walk-ins.
They've since branched out to have a takeaway bar attached, with a half-hour wait between joining the queue and getting your food.
For one I had a choice in, about 20-30 minutes for a chain restaurant on a saturday evening. I was with a girl, and we wanted to wait to get decent food instead of eating chicken from a bucket. And even then it was 'here's a bleeper, go wait by the bar while we find you a table'.
We were told 40 minutes, seated in 20-30, food arrived quickly. Waitress got a significant tip for that.
At peak times, you're gonna have to wait.
>>7682812
So true. I'm actually a born and bred Texan, and I've been living in NorCal for 6 years; moved here for higher wages in my field. There's no way I could make the amount of money in TX as I do here. Anyway, I'm just trying to bank right now, because I'll have to move back to TX eventually (family obligations ), but I think all the time about how much I'll miss the diversity and awesome fucking scenery and climate of NorCal. LA is pretty shit tier, but I don't think anyone could hate NorCal if they've ever come and explored out here. There's places that are pure magic.
>>7682852
>implying Austin isn't overrun by west coast faggots
Look at the picture and the people waiting in line. Fuck off you west coast faggot.
