I read somewhere, years ago, that malls don’t have clocks so you can’t tell what time it is and will thus stay longer (and presumably buy more). Hey, that’s marketing…
Okay…
So how come fast food places never have a fucking clock? They have the opposite problem, stragglers who stay forever and take up seats too long. You think they’d encourage people to cram it in and get the hell out. So why don’t they? I hate being late, and although I usually wear a wristwatch, sometimes I forget. Then what? Ask a random customer every 10 minutes or so what time it is?
Why don’t fast food places have fucking clocks? :mad:
Is this just an American thing? The fast food restaurants here (including US-based ones) usually have a clock or two in the general dining areas, and almost always have one behind the counter, just below the posted menus.
Based on the OP this seems like a great place to post rants about very minor things and making them sound like Satan is trying to steal children’s souls.
The other day I ran the AC in my car to get it cooled down before putting my baby in her car seat, it being a very hot day and all. Well, when I go to get in the car, all the fucking windows are fogged up! What the fuck?! So hear I am having to wipe down the goddamn windows like some sort of fucking, I don’t know, window wiper or something, maybe even like a worker at a car wash.
That is odd, come to think of it. Even the cafe across from my building, exclusively patronized by employees of three large companies during the workday, doesn’t have clocks. You’d think they’d have a couple for the benefit of people who forgot their watches.
On the other hand, virtually everyone there has cell phones and/or blackberries now, so it’s rather difficult to be absolutely without any means of telling the time.
Fast food places likely assume that anyone who cares about the time will bring their own timekeeping device. As does pretty much every public place I’ve ever been. And with the advent of cell phones, that assumption is correct for a lot of people. Come to think of it, I’ve never noticed clocks in bookstores, drugstores, real restaurants - anywhere, really. Why should a fast food place be any different?
What you should really be pitting is your own inability to remember to wear your watch. I mean, I forget things too, but come on. If you put your watch on every morning, it becomes a habit, like putting on socks. Also, you don’t have a cell phone?
Yes, the OP is an absolute dinosaur, dependent on a wristwatch and/or clocks.
You should be like everyone else in the restaurant, staring at the face of your cellphone for the time and all the other vital data that makes existence possible. That is, when you’re not actually calling everyone in your address book to tell them that you’re eating at a fast food restaurant.
I haven’t worn a watch in many years. As a result I know where lots of hidden clocks are in the city. (Pay phones, TTC transfer machines, some specific stores I know.)
There is one big coffee chain with a clock in EVERY shop. I am sure it gets them business. I know I go in sometimes just to see the time.
It used to bug me that hotel rooms didn’t have clocks. It seemed like it would simpler for the hotel to buy a bunch of cheapo digital alarm clocks and bolt them to the nightstands than have to worry about giving people wake-up calls. I think now some do have them, in addition to irons and ironing boards, coffeemakers and somtimes little fridgies. All of which make it more fun to travel.
I never wear a watch. I rarely look at my cell phone for the time unless I have to be somewhere at a specific time. But I think the OP is trying to say that if McWendys had a clock, it would move people out of the seats faster.
I disagree. People will move as fast as they need to. Sure, you might have a couple of folks just hanging out, killing time long after the food is gone, but they are vastly outnumbered by those who will eat and immediately leave.
