I don’t know how it is in the states, but fast food places here give you a small beeper with a number on it, when your order is ready, it beeps/vibrates and you pick your order up. No one shouting names, no overhearing names, no losing attention when a device in your hand starts beeping/vibrating. The number on it serves as a secondary backup. I’ve not been in a place where name giving was required. Different culture I guess.
Around my parts in Scandinavia, the most used method is a number on your reciept and a screen where the number shows up when the order i ready. If someone isn’t paying attention to the screen, that’s on them, and they should feel bad. There’s no shouting names or number, and people don’t get the wrong order.
Never seen those for fast food here in the US. Sit down restaurants used to issue them to let you know when a table was ready, but that seems to have been replaced (at least in my limited experience) with asking for your number to text you. Which I’m sure is definitely the only way they’re using that number and they totally don’t keep it and sell the collected numbers off to data brokers later or anything.
I don’t know how it is in the states, but fast food places here give you a small beeper with a number on it, when your order is ready, it beeps/vibrates and you pick your order up. No one shouting names, no overhearing names, no losing attention when a device in your hand starts beeping/vibrating. The number on it serves as a secondary backup. I’ve not been in a place where name giving was required. Different culture I guess.
Around my parts in Scandinavia, the most used method is a number on your reciept and a screen where the number shows up when the order i ready. If someone isn’t paying attention to the screen, that’s on them, and they should feel bad. There’s no shouting names or number, and people don’t get the wrong order.
A civil system where I don’t have to share my name, I like it.
Never seen those for fast food here in the US. Sit down restaurants used to issue them to let you know when a table was ready, but that seems to have been replaced (at least in my limited experience) with asking for your number to text you. Which I’m sure is definitely the only way they’re using that number and they totally don’t keep it and sell the collected numbers off to data brokers later or anything.
They ask for your phone number ? that’s not alright