"George Leppla" wrote in message
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> "sue mullen" wrote in message
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>>I hope they don't try it while we are on the Sleezy.
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> I understand that they will have it on the Legend by then, but again, it
> is optional and I am not going to change the group. We will have standard
> late/early seatings as we usually do. Dinner time is one of the times of
> the day that the group can come together and visit and adds a lot to the
> group experience. We have done groups on NCL and Princess and open
> seating just doesn't "work" as well as groups..
>
> If any member of the group wants to change to open seating, it is my
> understanding that you can do it while on the ship by telling the
> Maitre'd.
>
> BTW - I really love open seating... but not with a group. But so far,
> NCL, Princess, HAL, Royal Caribbean and now Carnival have some sort of
> open seating options or tests in the works. It won't be long before this
> is a mainstay on all the mass market cruise lines.
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There has to be a financially logical reason that they do things... so we
have conflicting patterns.
It would seem that they started having double seatings (early vs. late) so
that they didn't have to build dining rooms large enough to accommodate all
passengers.
But now they seem to go toward the open seating concept... so... what's the
driver? Can they keep the smaller dining rooms and with having wait times
at peak periods (which might mean they sell a few more cocktails) still make
it work? Or are they building larger dining rooms to make it work?
On Crown Princess, there seemed to be a lot of waiters standing around at
times in the PC dining room... so idle waiters can't be cost effective...
What's the logic? Which one saves more money? Can they maybe save that
much more by not producing excess food if they can cook it at a constant
pace instead of all at once.
--Tom
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