This new feature has led me to delete my friends list in 2 cities because it is too time consuming. People wants friends who are doing the tavern and I am no longer doing it in 2 of my cities and chances are I will discontinue doing it in a third. If you go click on all the chairs it is quite wearisome, so I tend to just return those who come to my tavern, yet many times I don't get a seat in theirs either. The concept is ok. And I am sure it achieves the games goal of getting people to keep coming back to the game and staring at their tavern till the seats are all full. However, for me, it has made the game a chore. There are a few good boosts, but they cost thousands of silver, so even after I finally some day get a full table, it may take awhile to get so much silver. Since the only boost that interests me is the one fo attack, but won't need that in the cities I quit the tavern since I quit GE in those cities as well. So I shouldn't miss it. The only thing I will miss is the aid, but we will see if I get enough from neighbors. If not, I may look for non tavern players to add as friends, or I may just quit those cities altogether.
Really it would have been nice if the tavern had its own list. We oculd have had 4 tabs at the bottom: neighbors, guild, friends, and tavern helpers. That would have made this totally a thing one could choose to do or not to do. The way it is now, people drop players who don't do the tavern, and if they don't because the person aids, they lose out of the chance of getting more silver.