Coffee Tables

Hi!

So my wife and I are are currently on overtime day 19. We were forced into taking single dining so our group sizes are now 1 resulting in a total volume of around 260 people a day. We've automated the pie production and only make neat pies. We've nearly fully automated all 6 dining tables using teleporters. All I do now in the restaurant is take the order but that will soon be replaced with an ordering terminal.

So, once the rush is underway, we have a queue that extends way off the screen. Our 20 coffee tables are immediately filled up and as the churn of customers is so fast, people are barely sitting down before standing back up again. This has created an awful door bottleneck with customers fighting to get through. Sometimes this gets so sketchy that we have no tables filled and the guests outside nearly lose all patience at night time.

After thinking about this, I feel like the coffee tables serve absolutely zero purpose and in fact are a detriment at this stage. The only time they pay dividends is when the outside queue finally clears and those guest migrate inside and take a table. That rapidly draining evening patience bar then becomes a much slower inside patience bar! In my view, all a coffee table does is allow someone to wait inside the restaurant vs outside, therefore significantly increasing the patience, especially when it's night time. However, this feels like it makes no difference when there's still a queue outside that lasts for nearly 10 minutes until the day ends.

Am I missing something here? I can barely fit any more coffee tables inside the restaurants but feel I'm better placed swapping them for more pie production and plate washing functions!

TLDR; are coffee tables worthless when you are dealing with 200+ guests ?

Thanks folks!