largely depends on the restaurant bc when they stop serving food and when they kick folks out isn’t standardized across the entire industry, if it feels like you’re cutting it close i’d make a courtesy call and let the staff decide, because if they have a heads up and say they’ll still seat you it isn’t a dick move
otherwise for sure lol
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Yeaaahhh not the best, some spots will do it (sometimes begrudgingly). on a busy night it can be fine and good to get more people seated before close, but on a slow boring night the kitchen has probably already been breaking down and everyones ready to go home.
Also I don't think it seems like a fun experience to order in less than 10 minutes hahah
Mar 21, 2024
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i never go to a establishment that’s closing in thirty minutes.
mad rude if you pu last ten minutes
they prob just wrapped everything up
yeah it says it’ll close at 10 but everyone has lives don’t forget
Mar 20, 2024
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As a coffee shop owner of almost 7 years, here’s the answer!!
If it’s crazy busy, like on a weekend and the lines out the door, definitely limit yourself.. 30mins feels like the sweet spot. Any other day of the week, please sit down and enjoy yourself forever! All day even! as long as you bought something and aren’t taking a seat away from someone who really needs it, we certainly don’t care. Especially if it’s art, we love that. People on computers doing zoom calls though, those suck haha.
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024