Originally Posted by
VivoPerLei
I think that's about right. When I'm in the USA and lazy enough to eat at a chain restaurant I'm certainly not going to wait - I can almost always get the same crap at some other restaurant in the strip mall.
Inertia is a powerful force. There are many here who would wait a reasonable length of time rather than go back and get in the car and drive to the next restaurant down the road. Not everywhere in the US are chain restaurants lined up next to one another as far as the eye can see.