Testing the Hypothesis, Part 1

1. Lengthy lines at restaurants.
2. People in the United States do not know how long the lines at restaurants are before showing up to them and may be in a rush and don't have time to wait in the line. 
3. I think that more than just Americans have this need as I'm sure people around the world also experience showing up to a restaurant and realizing they have to wait thirty minutes before they order. Some people may be able to judge the line from outside by looking into the restaurant or by checking how packed the parking lot is. They could also call the store ahead of time and get a rough estimate of the wait. I think that the why pertains to most people and there aren't many boundaries for it.
4. Interviews
1. The first interviewee was a current freshman at the University of Florida. They also hated waiting in line for food and especially hated showing up to a restaurant and finding out that the line was much longer than expected. Although they never thought of it themselves, they saw that there was an opportunity for a product that would be able to tell people the length of a line before they show up to the store.
2. The second interviewee was a graduate student. This person has been at UF for 5 years and says that they have figured out which restaurants get busiest at what times and has been able to plan around this. He doesn't see a problem in waiting in line and thinks that if it did matter, he could just call ahead and figure out how long the wait was. 
3. The third interviewee was a sophomore at UF. This student is on the meal plan at UF and doesn't eat out very often at school so they don't have a need to know the wait times in the line. I asked her if it would help when she went back home and was no longer on UF's meal plan, but she said that she rarely eats out and usually eats home-cooked meals.
4. The fourth interviewee was a junior at UF. This student claimed that he had been late to classes before because he was waiting in line to get food and it took much longer than expected because the line was rather long. This student sees a need to know how long lines at restaurants are beforehand so that they are no longer late to class because of waiting for food.
5. My last interviewee was a faculty member at UF. I asked this faculty member if they eat out a lot and they said that they only do so on the weekend. During school hours, they bring a lunch to their office and eat at school. They believe it is cheaper and that paying money to eat out can cost a lot of money. When they eat out on weekends they usually make reservations at restaurants so they don't have to wait in a queue anyway.
5. I now know that not that many people have the need that I thought did. Some people never eat out and others don't mind waiting for their food or have other ways of avoiding lines.