Steve P wrote:Christina Hall wrote:Matthew D wrote:[
The restaurant was guilty of only seeing the unlikely outcome while overlooking the most likely outcome. And, at the end of the day, it made money off of both tables. It made a bad choice and paid no penalty.
This. You don't seat a large party and expect them to be properly served and out in an hour. On a busy night you're lucky to move a two top through that quickly.
It was a party of two yammering females seated at a six top...They had actually completed dining by the time we arrived at 6:30pm...They spent the next 40 minutes lingering over desert and coffee. The hostess/manager was VERY pissed and made a point of telling us that she had made a point of telling these two women when they arrived that she was only seating them as a courtesy and that there was a party expected at 6:30pm. I don't blame the restaurant one iota...in my mind, this falls strictly on the behavior of two inconsiderate diners.
Maybe you should have just sat down at the other four chairs and tell them how nice it was to offer to pick up the tab for your party since they were using your table! Maybe they would have gotten the hint they needed to pack up and leave. If they didn't you could always flash your concealed pistol (everyone in Kentucky has one don't they) that certainly would have encouraged to them to move along.
