I work in a restaurant.
Anyone that reads my blog knows this.
For the 11 years since I've worked there, a certain lady has been emailing her lunch order every single day.
Here's the strange thing about that....
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It's not a complicated order.
It would only take us a few minutes to take that order over the phone.
Most people don't even know that we have an email address.
As a matter of fact since we rarely ever check our email she literally has to call us to tell us that she emailed her lunch order.
It seems like it would take her much less time to call and order the food with our bartender.
Emailing the order creates an extra step especially because she has to call us and tell us that she emailed it.
It also means that our manager has to stop what she is doing to go load up the computer and check the email.
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There are a lot of different strange types of people out there.
Not everyone walks down the same path.
Still I have to ask........ have you ever thought about emailing a restaurant to get your lunch order in when they have a phone and so do you?
I mean....... given that you actually have to call them to tell them that you emailed them because they're not set up to get an email order.
I personally think it's incredibly unusual.
I'm glad that my boss is a good sport about it because she literally has to get off of the line to go deal with it.
I see this lady everyday and she seems very friendly.
I guess she just really likes to email. It's possible she's looking for a paper trail so that she can keep track of how much money she spent.
If you think about it like that it's probably a lot easier to keep track of your email then it is to keep track of a bunch of different little receipts.
Even knowing that I still think it's pretty strange thing to do.