As everyone knows, the royal baby was born on Monday, and thankfully, all of the news was positive. The baby is healthy, the Duchess is healthy, and no one was hurt during the surrounding events. The crowd began gathering outside St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London days before Will and Kate even made it there…. Read More
If you haven’t heard of the Cronut, it’s the latest food trend in Manhattan. As the name suggests, it’s a hybrid croissant-donut crafted by Dominique Ansel Bakery in SoHo. This unique pastry made it’s debut in May, and it didn’t take long for word of its apparent awesomeness to spread. Now, the pastry has its… Read More
Summer’s here, which means it’s concert season. Whether you’re in charge of an indoor or outdoor venue, stadium or park, an arena or amphitheatre, concert security should be top of mind. Here are 6 tips to ensure crowd safety throughout the entire summer concert season. 1. Create a large separation between the crowd and the… Read More
Play a game with me for a moment: It’s a Friday afternoon. You’ve got the day off from work, and you have a few errands to run. You’d like to make it to the DMV and renew your registration, but you don’t want to end up waiting for two hours and waste half of your… Read More
Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood recently introduced a VIP ticket that will give those who can afford it the ability to experience the theme park in a way most average Joes can not. The tickets sell for $299 and include, among many other things, the ability to skip ride lines with the help of… Read More
At one time or another, we’ve all been in a long, miserable line. Whether it’s at the DMV, a grocery store, the bank, or maybe waiting in line to ride a roller coaster at a theme park. In that moment, we think to ourselves, I’d do anything to get to the front of this line…. Read More
Wake Forest University recently had some big names in town for their annual concert, cleverly called “WakeStock.” The university brought in hip-hop stars, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Kendrick Lamar to perform at the concert, but the highly anticipated event fell short due to crowd control issues. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who recently hit unfathomable… Read More
Back in December we covered a story about an unruly crowd of sneaker shoppers in Alabama. As is common with these highly coveted kicks, Nike only releases a small number in an effort to create hype. In Alabama, 100 sneaker heads stood waiting outside a small retailer to grab one of 36 wrist bands that… Read More
1. Return on Investment You can’t just throw queueing equipment in front of your counters and registers and expect it to work. It’s almost that easy, but not quite. When implemented properly, a queueing setup will pay for itself ten times over. There are two specific setups that we push quite often on our blog,… Read More
The above photo began circulating the internet last week. No one’s really sure who took the photo, or where these people are, but apparently it was taken somewhere in Thailand. It appears as though the people are using their shoes and sandals to hold their spots in line, while they wait (sitting) on closeby benches…. Read More