Eli5 how on earth to restaurants get the orders out for each table at the same time despite the dishes taking different amounts of time to cook?

Question

Like, so many different tables, they can’t do each table at a time, so confusing

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Answer 1

Not sure which restaurants you go to but if I don’t order the same/similar thing as other people our food can be as much as 10-15 minutes apart which is pretty substantial as far as cooking time goes so this is by no means a standard.