Cafes should have 2 lines...

Having 2 queues at bus stops wouldn’t make any difference to how quickly the bus sets off though. The bus wouldn’t leave until everyone in the queue was on no matter how quickly/slowly they took with the driver.

I used to work in a cafe and hated making the teas!
Coffee: super easy, 10 seconds through the machine and warm the milk up at the time. The emptying/filling/clunking the portafilter in was always really satisfying. Usually 3 jugs on the go for different milk types. Skoosh of syrup if wanted. One mug.
Tea: pot, teabags with fiddly tongs, hot water machine separate from coffee machine. Find mug and saucer. Decant milk into stupid tiny milk jug.

And then the cleaning up after was an arse as so much more crockery.

Give me a decaf caramel latte with oat milk to make any day!

There is. It's called using the app

There's a place reserved in hell for those kind of people alongside all the people who use the "pay at pum" and go into the kiosk to pay!

Can we have two escalators going in each direction?

One for people who are able to keep moving when they get to the top and the other for people who get to the top then immediately stop and stand there a while wondering where/what to do next while people are piling up behind them.

Ditto for shop exits.

Ta.

Not sure about tea vs designer personalised coffee, but there should definitely be a separate queue for people who are just grabbing some food or drink from the shelves, do not want any hot drinks, and just hope to quickly pay and go.

That's a really weird perspective on life where you define people's personality based on their drink of choice.

You sound really boring and dull. Spice up your life abit

I'm not a massive herbal drinker but Pukka or Yogi are the ones I tend to go for when I do. I don't know do either brand do nettle on its own but they both definitely do mixes with nettle in them. Yogi Happy Belly has nettle and Pukka Radiance also has nettle. I haven't tried to happy belly but the Pukka one is lovely. It has peppermint and fennel in it as well as the nettle.

Because tea is on offer presumably. Maybe you think there should be special hot chocolate shops.

Why are you buying tea in a coffee shop and then complaining about people quite rightly buying coffee? Its seems like you are wasting everyone elses time. Go to a tearoom. Problem solved.

As a tea expert... can you recommend a brand of nettle tea? DD got a free sample with her Christmas present (of tea) but would prefer it in bags rather than loose leaf

I know. I was in a very fancy hotel which had a very fancy tea room with a huge tea menu and the manager was amazed when I told her the different temperatures needed for different teas. At least she seemed interested in learning. I sent her off to the solaris botanicals website which is where I buy my tea. They have a page on water temperature. Their boxes of tea also have the correct temperature on them.

I'd vote for 2 queues in all shops - clothes/supermarkets etc at Christmas time. One queue for normal shopping and a separate queue for all things Christmassy.

Yes, I make my green tea at home at 80, oolong at 90.

It drives me mad how coffee drinkers can have the world on a stick and I can't even get water at the right temperature.

Getting the correct temperature water would be amazing. Most places throw boiling water on green tea (should be 70-80 degrees). I should probably be in the complicated queue for my green tea as i always ask for the bag on the side and a glass of cold water so I can avoid scalding the tea.

Tea just needs a vending machine arrangement. Chose your tea bag, then a dispenser of the correct temperature water.

I for one am delighted with Oyster and Key Smartcards, never having to queue behind some old biddy who wants to know how to get to Skegness and back for the cheapest price, and THEN doesn’t even buy a ticket!

In my local beach cafe I’d like 2 queues, one for those who know their table number and know what they want to order. A second queue for those who don’t know the table number, don’t know what they want til they get to their turn to be served, have a big discussion about the choices, ask if they can swap some of the sides, don’t know what the others want( those sitting at the unknown table number) so that they send one person off to find out what aunty gill wants and who wants white bread and who wants brown bread.
Despite huge display boards outside, menus on every table, along the walls inside and above the counter plus a huge notice that you have to walk past which says “ please take note of your table number before queueing”.
The lovely staff have the patience of saints.

Absolutely! I would love this.

Although 9 times out of 10 I'd be in the dickhead queue. I'm always lured in by some frappichino of the week or what have you. Like a stupid beverage magpie. And then bitterly disappointed by my saccharine sweet cup of tepid and wishing I'd just got a tea.

You are soooo right!! Especially when in a pub (A PUB!!!) with one server and the person in front wants 6 mocha choccas with extra shots and whipped cream ….. I only want a glass of Malbec!!

I often wish in shops there was a line for people who know what they want, and another for people who want to know the full extent of exact contents of the menu, throwing in their life story as well and adding in variations on the order for the exclusion of bits they don’t like. And another for staff to be guaranteed not to try and upsell you stuff.

How do you solve a problem like me?

*I love cake a cafe.
*I hate coffee. All coffee.
*I only drink tea or hot chocolate but
sometimes I don't want all the sweetness of a HC.
*I am nowhere near 80 😄.

M&S foodhall is my place to want to deck folks. Stand in a long queue with a sandwich and get lots of older people (of which I am one) who dithering about once they get to cashier, take forever to pack their shopping THEN look for their "sparks" card and payment!!! Finally find card at bottom of huge bag then ask several times how much before changing their minds and paying cash. Yet more searching for the correct money and more of my life lost waiting. As for those who pack at the tills at Aldi rather than at the packing bench they need tazering. The reason your prices have gone up is because the scan rates are down due to you packing your months grocery shop into specific colour coded bags at the till 🤬 But thats humans for you 🤷