{"id":154,"date":"2006-03-14T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/03\/14\/restaurant-usability\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:29:32","slug":"restaurant-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/14\/restaurant-usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/u-kunt-hier-ook-zitten-flickr-112435405-375x500.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"'U kunt hier ook zitten'\" class=\"wp-image-4267\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/54\/112435405_3b03da163a_m.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/u-kunt-hier-ook-zitten-flickr-112435405-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/u-kunt-hier-ook-zitten-flickr-112435405-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/u-kunt-hier-ook-zitten-flickr-112435405.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>\n<p>I ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kaeru\/112435405\/\">this curious sign<\/a> while out for lunch today. A small restaurant specialising in pie (vlaai) had these huge letters in the window, saying: \u201cyou can sit here as well\u201d. Obviously, if they made it obvious to potential clients that they had seating, they wouldn\u2019t need the sign \u2013 or is it a case of people not wanting to sit down and have a piece of pie? <\/p>\n<p>To me, the sign was quite similar to those texts in web pages reading \u201cclick here to \u2026\u201d \u2013 always a clear sign of bad usability. Perhaps the pie shop is in need of some user experience consulting?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this curious sign while out for lunch today. A small restaurant specialising in pie (vlaai) had these huge letters in the window, saying: \u201cyou can sit here as well\u201d. Obviously, if they made it obvious to potential clients that they had seating, they wouldn\u2019t need the sign \u2013 or is it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/14\/restaurant-usability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restaurant usability<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[115,114,55,54,53],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-food","tag-restaurants","tag-usability","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}