[limegreencoolaid]

How many times have you been waiting to be seated at a crowded restaurant with one of those pagers they give you and have no idea how many people are ahead of you. My idea is a cheap lcd counter built in or stuck on to the pagers they give you displaying the number of customers in front of you.

Reward: Free food at all participating restaurants.

[alken]

I see that idea as having great potential, possibly being made already. Here's a few additional suggestions:

The lcd screen would list the following data: Patron's first and last name, estimated wait time*, people ahead of you, time and date.

*Estimated time would be the time in which you must wait until getting a table, this would be set by the restaurant and will continuously count down.


Opinion?

[virole]

Might i recommend going to outback steak house. They have this system in place and it is amazing Good idea but its already in place. I suggest you talk to the individual restarants you would like to see this in.

[sippykup]

There's a solution called QLess that lets you find out at any time how many people are ahead of you in line, it forecasts how long your wait time is (on demand), and it uses your cell phone:

http://qless.com