kcharles wrote:
Does anyone have any good tips for SS? I want to improve my game, so mainly I'm looking for tips to stay in longer.
I don't have any great tips, but something's better than nothing, right? ^.^;
I did read somewhere that the counters aren't set up to perspective, but should be considered to be different lengths. So the one on top is the shortest, and the one on the bottom the longest. They also said the people on the top counter are generally less patient. Basically, the top counter should get priority. (Also, I like to think of the top counter as polished metal and the bottom one as stone, which helps explain why the cups slide so much more quickly on one counter than the other.)
My own tips aren't very numerous. First, if you have a lot of people waiting, it's easiest to get a bunch of slushies from the dispenser on that row and just sling them down the counter, one after the other, until you've gotten one to everyone. Then you just have to be aware of when cups are coming back to you so you can face the correct way.
Second, if you have a lot of people waiting, it's easier to just get them some sort of slushie than it is to figure out which one they really want, so getting the closest type is probably best.
Third, if you have cutsomers on more than one counter at a similar position, serve the one on the uppermost counter first, then work down the line. Otherwise, you could get the thing that annoys me most - you've served counter 3, waited a little while, served counter 1, waited a little while, and ended up dropping one or both of the cups because they reached your end of the counter at the same time. ^.^;