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Designs to Reduce Waiting Time, Real and Perceived

Soon after I started at LS3P I was asked by a College of Charleston Hospitality and Tourism Management professor to present to their students regarding the myriad ways that design can affect the guest or customer experience of a company. He had recently read (and had his students read) a paper titled Servicescapes: The Impact of Physical Surroundings on Customers and Employees, and tasked me with providing a broader view of the research on the subject for his students.

Waiting

Who doesn't like waiting in line?

While the scope of the research presented is too broad to cover in a single post, one of the favorite topics relates to the ways in which architecture can influence actual and perceived wait times of customers, a topic described well in a 1985 article from David Maister titled the Psychology of Waiting Lines...

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