Had this happened on more than one occasion I would, but in fact I’ve been there on other occasions with larger parties, gotten one check with individual tabs with no problem at all. We love the food, the drinks, and in the past, have had excellent service. I really think this was a one off with a foodsever that simply didn’t know their job or the usual policies. ( She forgot to bring maybe 25% of our orders, took forever to bring drinks . I even asked if perhaps it would help her if we wrote our names on our order Slips? “No, why would that help?”
) I’ve been away from the industry for so long that I wanted to be sure that the usual habits had not changed that much.
In the future I’ll return to the same restaurant but shun that particular server.