On 9 May, 16:18, Old Boy <mazold...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The First Post presented De Bono with the age-old conundrum: how do
> you make the theatre crush bar less of a crush at the interval?
>
> DURING an interval at the theatre, queuing at the pre-order table is
> barely preferable to the scrum at the bar. But apply one of the
> specific techniques of lateral thinking - using random words - and
> even this problem seems surmountable.
>
> (Interesting look at De Bono's thought processes and how he responds
> to a problem)
>
> More:http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1369
My way out of this would be be to to get them to 'notionally queue' in
advance by optionally booking their drinks and paying for them against
a numbered voucher given them in the foyer, but I suppose you could
also attach an arbitrary name to this booking, which you could then
shout out across a busy bar! 'Andrew!' It would still be 'first come,
first served' - with, hopefully, no ire! Well, just a quick stab,
though I'll bet there is a better solution. I worked in a theatre bar
for a bit, and the big problem, though, was dealing with money, which
really slowed things down! What we used to do was make lots of
predictable drinks and, so, could provide them fast! (About 20%,
anyway,ordered by patrons in advance!) Often, though, we had to tip
them back into their respective bottles! Not so predictable!
(Sometimes, illicitly, we drank a few of them ourselves!). All the
same, do people really want to organise their drinks in advance in
such a way?
--
'foolsru****n.'
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