Buenos Aires boasts impressive waiters, whose minds are worth studying, according to the paper Strategies of Buenos Aires Waiters to Enhance Memory Capacity in a Real-Life Setting, published in the journal Behavioural Neurology. “Typical Buenos Aires senior waiters memorise all orders from clients and take the orders, without written support, of as many as 10 persons per table. They also deliver the order to each and every one of the customers who ordered it without asking or checking.”
And most of the time, they get it right.
How do they do it? Researchers Tristan Bekinschtein, Julian Cardozo and Facundo Manes ran an experiment to find out….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.