Google can now show you restaurant waiting times to help miss the queue
Search results and soon Google Maps will be able to tell you how long you’ll have to wait to get a table.
Google has unveiled a new tool to help users skip long lines when waiting for a table at a restaurant – by adding waiting time information to search results.
The new feature has started to appear within the existing popular times graph that Google displays within business information in search results. Now a new live counter will give users an estimated time they’d have to wait to get a seat.
The feature appears to already be going live for some users.
“Rolling out soon, wait times on Google Search (and coming soon to Maps) shows you the estimated wait at your favourite restaurants. Now you can decide whether that cronut is really worth an hour wait or plan ahead to get your fix at a time when you can avoid a wait entirely.”
