hiltcraze.blogg.se - Cue or queue line

From restaurants to schools to churches to COVID-19 vaccination sites, people wait in queue lines in myriad settings. If you’ve ever been on a call with customer service and been placed on hold with a voice telling you, “Your call will be answered in the order it was received,” you were technically in a queue line-just not a physical one.DMVs and other public sector services use queue lines to manage patrons.Amusement park guests often wait in long queues for popular rides.

Airport travelers deal with multiple queue lines, including checking in their luggage with an airline, waiting in a security line to have their ticket and ID checked, having their carry-on bags and themselves scanned, and waiting to board a plane when their zone is called.The drive-through doesn’t eliminate the queue-you’re just waiting from your car. Bank customers may wait, especially at peak times, in a single queue line for an available teller.Some retail businesses, such as bakeries or deli counters, direct their customers to take a number and wait for service until that number is called.

People wait in grocery and department stores for their turn to pay for their items.

That sounds abstract, but everyday people encounter queue lines all the time. Simply, a queue line is an ordered group of people waiting for their turn to do something. We don’t mind if you prefer to spell it differently, but we want you to thoroughly understand what queue lines are and how they affect your business operations. “Cue line” might be something a director says to an assistant when an actor needs to start rehearsing a scene-maybe “cue que” comes from asking “what cue?” Or perhaps a cue line is the abstract path in which one moves a pool cue in billiards. In Spanish and Portuguese, “que” means “what,” so saying “que line” is sort of saying “what line”-which might come off as ironic in a bad way if the line is long. When you are patiently waiting at a coffee shop for your morning latte, are you in a que line, a cue line, a Q-line, a cue que, or a queue line?Īfter seeing this spelled so many ways over the years, we feel we need to set the record straight.