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Originally Posted by outlander78
I live in Toronto, Canada, so I'm not east or west coast.  |
Toronto is East Coast.
I can tell most Canadians by their accent, but people from Toronto sound like they are from Jersey to me.
The economics are working out just fine. You say that the lines are 20 people deep. So they are getting as much, if not more, business than they can handle. As for those table hogging loungers, I bet many of them go in there every day or every other day. How often does the family of four go in? If I were a business owner, I would prefer to get the regular customers than hope for sporatic ones. Especially since the line is already 20 people deep. It also saves the cost of hiring someone to do the clean up after the families. Many times when a family with kids comes in, it looks like there's been a food fight centered around the table. At my local coffee shop, they roll their eyes since it takes a couple of them a few minutes to clean up afterwards. The loungers tend to be fairly low maintenance.
I spend a fair amount of time in New York. The line for the restroom is always longer than the line to buy something. Most of the restroom users aren't customers. Coffee shops, particularly Starbucks, are considered the unofficial official public restrooms in Manhattan.