Super Organized Starbucks

Even ordering Starbucks in Japan is organized and methodical.

Here's how it works:

1. There's one employee who makes sure everyone is standing in single file against the wall before ordering.
2. Another employee goes down the line passing out this illustrated menu and taking each person's order. She writes it down on a piece of paper and hands it to you.
3. Once you get to the front of the line, you don't have to waste time perusing the wall menu or, for that matter, uttering a single word. Just hand the paper over to the cashier, and she'll ring you up.
4. Your coffee comes out from the opposite end of the bar the same way it does in the US.

Comments

[Jonny]

Yes, Japan is very organized. People and organizations in/from Asia can be very organized. Note how organized and methodical the killer Cho Seung-Hui was.

[Pixoshiru]

I signed in just for that comment.
Virgina Tech's tragedy IS a tragedy, in this word very meaning. But you're stigmatising one whole continent for the act of one isolated man.
By the way, in a country where you cannot buy guns that easily, maybe things would have been different.

Maybe not. But here's definitely not the place to argue on that disastrous subject.

Anyway, this sad context won't make me miss this opportunity to say hello to you, Katayama san, and congratulate you for this website.
Keep on posting.:) おげんきでね！

[mq1986]

Actually, where I live (Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa area) in the U.S., the really busy Starbucks do the same thing. But generally, there are so many now that there are fewer people coming in, so the lines aren't so long.