Places where you have to pick a number and wait to be called?

Do you shop for groceries in a large supermarket? I can’t think of any that I’ve been in where they don’t use a numbering system and either call or post the number that’s next to serve.

In addition, the customers often leave a list of items that they want from the deli case, and are then paged back to the counter when the order is ready for pickup.

I just picked a number at the deli section of my local market. The sign was on 70 when I walked in, my number was 74.

And the same store does it at the meat counter before big holidays.

In a busy bakery, yes you take a number.

Deli counters. I have to take a number at the deli counter even at my supermarket.

The Chinese place I ate at in Chinatown last time I was in NYC. That one even surprised me. LOL.

This is also the case with many fast food places like McDonalds. There’s a big number written on the top of your receipt. When you food is ready, they call that number.

Butcher, bakery, anywhere where there is a long case, and no natural place to make a line I suppose.

Suddenlink Cable store.

Been to the VA hospital lately?

”...too much Seinfeld.”

I’m sorry, but I find the above concept incomprehensible. Can someone please explain it to me? ;-o

@Brian1946
It was a crappy tv show that was only liked by nincompoops.

There’s a bulk food store near me that has been so successful they are swamped. They added a deli counter and the line is usually 8 to10 people deep. The number system is the only way they could manage the volume of customers they serve.

Texas drivers license office

@Pachy Here it’s the dreaded DMV

@stanleybmanly, where’s the Soup Nazi when we need him???

@Pachy It really is phenomenal, the effect that one series had on the American lexicon of phrases and quips. “a Festivus for the rest of us”,

^^^ He stopped short? That’s my move.