Has "Call Ahead Eating" come of age?
Posted by Russ Ford on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 @ 01:58 PM
This could be a dream come true!!
Last weekend my wife Laurie was down in Orlando running the Goofy Challenge at Disney World. This crazy race is a ½ marathon on Saturday followed by a little 26 mile jog on Sunday. Not hard to understand where the name comes from. She was also fortunate enough to run both races in 35 degree weather with a bit of freezing rain thrown in.
In any event I found myself home on Sunday night with my 7 year old Gracie and a little tornado we call “Smiley”, our 2 year old named Noel. Grace decided she wanted to go to her favorite restaurant Outback Steakhouse. One small problem, without mom home we are talking serious “ZONE DEFENCE” for dad. Not wanting to disappoint Gracie and deprive her of that Bloomin Onion I had to think fast.
So thinking they are probably not on a big wait and won’t be using those guest pagers we at HME Wireless are famous for, I called to see if I could do a bit of not “Call ahead seating” but “Call Ahead Eating”.
This amazing concept may take the country by storm much to the delight of parents with kids under 4. The concept is sort of a cross between a “To Go” order and “Call Ahead Seating”.
You simply call in, place your order as if it was to go and show up. Instead of taking it to go you are seated and within seconds your 2 year old is eating some sweet potato fries and sipping on her milk. Your 7 year old has just enough time to finish the puzzles in the kids menu before her dinner is on the table and you are living large. As the happy parent your reward is exactly 14 minutes and 37 seconds to enjoy your meal before you hit the fourth quarter and time is running out.
So if you have a local restaurant that would love to have more guests and is a bit flexible “Call Ahead Eating” is worth a shot.
A special thanks to Ray , Heather B and the rest of the team at Outback Buckhead in Georgia for “hooking a brother up”. Outstanding execution all the way around. I think the note on the bottom of the Outback check says it all with Call Ahead Eating you can “Live Adventurous!”. Cheers
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