Typically we don't -do- "waiting lists"...there are just very few places where I think the food is good enough to justify standing around for an hour waiting for a table...but when our favorite Asheville restaurant was on an hour and a half wait last night we figured "what the heck", so we put our name on the list...Expecting to be handed one of those "buzzer" thingies, I was surprised when the hostess entered our name and phone number into one of those eye-whatever-communication devices ya'll are packing these days. She explained to us that we were free to roam around town and that they would send us a text message about 5 minutes before our table was ready....and that if by some happenstance we were more than 5 minutes away that it was no biggie, just text them back that we would be a couple of minutes late and that they would hold the table (for a reasonable period of time)...
Anyway, I thought that was a pretty cool deal...and had it not been for the fact that we discovered three breweries within a few hundred yards of the restaurant it might have actually worked.
