How long should it take for a server to approach a table after a customer sits in a restaurant?

[Kross]

Customer experience is the crux of business now. I went to a restaurant, sat down at a spot and waited for 10 minutes, no server approached my table to take order from me. Disappointment is an understatement to what I felt.

How long ideally should it take a server to approach a table that a customer just sits in a restaurant?

 

[kit_hung]

A waiter should come to a table as soon as a customer takes a seat. I get annoyed when I have to summon a waiter after being at a table for several minutes..

 

[Trush Jodie]

Why would I have to wait at a table for more than three minutes before a waiter shows up. That's an inefficient restaurant.

 

[Min George]

It should not take up to two minutes before a server talks to a customer that just walks into the restaurant and sits on a table.

 

[eLdavis]

I think a minute or two should be more than enough, customers often gets irritated when they are made to wait too long.

 

[kit_hung]

I think two minutes would be too long. Some of us are not patient to keep waiting for such a lengthy duration.

 

[Kera]

I think two minutes would be too long. Some of us are not patient to keep waiting for such a lengthy duration.

It still depends. You have to check the scale of the restaurant to temper justice with mercy.