by Alanna H » Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:51 pm
Last week we went to a movie at Baxter Theater (yes, Black Panther is all they say, and more!) and went to grab dinner afterward.
We stopped by Sapporo- I wasn't sure what time they closed during the week but we got to the door and it said 10:30. Looked at the time and it was 10:04. I thought that was perfectly acceptable. My son complained that we shouldn't go that close to closing. Sorry kid, Mom wins. In we go.
As he's getting ready to seat us, the host tells me that the kitchen closes in 10 minutes (10:15), so we need to order quickly. I felt like he had a bit of attitude when he said it, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Then the server comes to take our drink orders and tells us the same thing. We already knew what we wanted, and placed our order right then.
Another table came in a few minutes after us, so at least we weren't the last customers, lol! We quickly ate our food when it came, and headed out. Maybe I'm being a naive diner, maybe I'm just being too sensitive, but was it really a big deal that we came in 25 minutes before closing? I would never dream of going in somewhere 10 minutes before closing. Probably not even 15. But I thought 25- even if the kitchen was closing in 10- would be fine. I'd love to get the opinions from those of you in the business.