Edinburgh venues face a peak they cannot staff for year-round, which means August is run substantially by seasonal team members who are least experienced exactly when the room is fullest.
Anything that depends on staff knowing the menu well degrades in that month. Guests ordering directly from a menu that recommends removes the dependency — the quality of the suggestion does not change with the rota.
A large share of Royal Mile and Old Town covers are visitors, many reading in a second or third language, with no context for the venue. Verbal ordering compounds that — a guest who is unsure what a dish is and cannot easily ask will order the safest thing on the list.
Ordering from a menu in their own language, with clear descriptions and allergen detail, changes what they feel able to choose.
During the Festival the constraint is rarely the kitchen — it is how long a full room waits to be reached. Guests ordering when they are ready rather than when a server is free is the difference between turning a table before the next show and losing the sitting entirely.
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That is the main reason Edinburgh venues adopt it — the constraint in August is floor capacity, not kitchen capacity.
25+, with recommendations delivered in the guest's chosen language.
No. Many venues run it for the peak season and keep normal service the rest of the year.