Maximum Throughput for a Haunted Walking Trail

[mrfoos]

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[Allen H]

You kind of have it covered- what you are missing is the customer appearance arc. they do not all show up in an orderly fashion evenly spaced from when you open to when you close, they all show up about 9pm and trickle in before and after that. Be prepared to handle 500 people per hour. If you can handle 500/hr then you can process some people. 700 - 800 is attainable but unlikely your first year.
Darkness of show and amount of actors you have are also limiting factors of throughput. Your first weekend is not that busy and is a great practice for the next three then the last weekend will be more like the second or third weekend was. your fourth weekend (the sat before Halloween) is normally the busiest (depending on what day Halloween falls on). There is an arc to when customers come, both for the night and for the season.
Allen H

[Haunt man]

I have to go with Mr. Allen, you seem you have it down.
Since you are worried about time, wait one more min bewteen groups if its slow. Keep the actors on the same time per group, this way you will have more down time when its slow but be able to keep up when its crowded and the actors wont be (AS) tired because they did have more down time before to recover.
Verry well thought out! Sounds like a great plan, keep us posted!

Haunt man