‘People waited 24 hours for a potato!’: how viral queues help – and harm – restaurants
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It has become common for people to wait in long lines for cafes, bakeries and ice-cream shops. But why? And what do the owners think? At 9.45am on a warm Saturday in September, a queue snakes down the pavement in Notting Hill, west London.
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