Time to first human reply
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What a waiting guest sees
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Every location we tested
Times are Eastern, as recorded during the audit. Sort by any column. Figures as of Oct 29, 2026, 11 AM ET; locations still inside the window are marked “No reply yet”.
Don’t take it from us. Every inquiry below is in your CRM and inbox under the guest name we used, with the original timestamp. Look them up and check the times against ours.
What the research says
In a Harvard Business Review study of 1.25 million web leads, firms that reached the customer within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify the lead as firms that waited one hour more, and over 60 times as likely as those that waited a day.
of consumers say a venue’s responsiveness is very or extremely important in deciding where to book.
Tripleseat, 2025 Consumer Event Planning Insights.
Sources: Oldroyd, McElheran and Elkington, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads,” Harvard Business Review, March 2011. Tripleseat, 2025 Consumer Event Planning Insights. Peer figure: the four national brands we tested the same weekend, .
What the wait costs, per year
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Illustrative. Inquiry volume, event value and booking rate are editable assumptions, not audit findings; only the share that waited more than 24 hours comes from this audit.
For the record: 80% of locations replied at all (4 of 5). 1 had not replied as of Oct 29. Not one replied inside the first hour, the fastest took 13 hours 2 minutes, only 4 replied within 24 hours, out of 5, and 1 guest waited more than a day.