2nd to 5th March 2017 - 50 cents per chicken wing
6th to 12th March 2017 - $1 for 10 meatball (comes with mash potatoes, lingon berry ham and cream sauce)
The offer is indeed so tempting that I almost wanted to go there and grab these offers.
On second thought, I decided not to knowing that such events will attract hordes of people.
True enough, someone sent me photos of the queue on one of the days of the promotion.
The queue extended all the way out of the cafe.
Of course, who doesn't want good deal.
The cafe at Ikea is already crowded as it is, especially during the weekends. You often has to stand and wait or go round and round the cafe for at least 30 minutes (if you are lucky) before you can get a seat unless you are fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time when someone is leaving.
Everyone is scanning through the area for seats like a hawk looking for prey and has to be double quick in moving once he or she sees someone is getting up to leave. Some will adopt the tactic of standing and waiting near a table where there's a high potential of the diners leaving soon.
And there's the awkward moment when you realize that you are eyeing the table that someone else is already eyeing for a while. Some may pretend the other person is transparent and just snatch the table under the person's nose only to be told off. It's almost like the third world war about to erupt anytime soon.
With the promotion, the situation can only get worse.
How many people actually decided to go Ikea or changed their plans to go Ikea after seeing the advertisement?
Perhaps the need to queue one or two hours for the chicken wings at more than 50% discount off the price actually makes one feel that the chicken wing tastes 3 times better? Do these people enjoy queuing and crowd? Is it the satisfaction of achieving something? Is it the fear of losing out on the good deal or others?
How many people actually changed their plan to avoid Ikea even though they already planned to go?