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09:00. The till answers every order at once.0 waiting · 1 busy · 0 done
Chapter 2 of 7
A ticket and a worker
The team’s fix: the till only writes a ticket and answers at once. Someone in the back does the slow part.
This chapter: What changes for the customer when the work moves to a queue?
About this chapter
You will learn
- A queue holds jobs until a worker is free
- The till answers before the work is done
- A worker takes one job at a time
Words you’ll meet
- Queue
- A line of jobs waiting their turn: here, the order rail.
- Job
- One piece of work on the queue: here, ship one order.
- Worker
- A program that takes jobs off the queue and does them, one at a time.
Step 1 of 5
Now the till hangs each order’s on a , the rail, and answers the customer straight away.
Step to 09:01.