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YouTubeIt's Restaurant Week, there's assumptions on how quickly tables will turn in order to fill reservations. Not turning that table within a reasonable time can mess up the whole flow of your evening. If a place doesn't take reservations and they are maintaining a steady flow of drinks, who cares. To Kara's point, this was not a regular Thursday night.
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somertimeoh
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KSquared
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somertimeoh wrote >>
It's Restaurant Week, there's assumptions on how quickly tables will turn in order to fill reservations. Not turning that table within a reasonable time can mess up the whole flow of your evening. If a place doesn't take reservations and they are maintaining a steady flow of drinks, who cares. To Kara's point, this was not a regular Thursday night.Yep. If the point of RW is, among other things, for the restaurants to be exposed to as many diners as possible this definitely doesn't help, as well as just being rude to fellow diners. I've argued this on other threads, so I'll give it a rest and everyone can go back to talking about horses and such.
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Twixlen
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and they'd made prior arrangements with the restaurant (not uncommon, as
that is a very female thing to do).I so want to argue this... but for the life of me I can't recall a time when me and the guys have made reservations.
I'm wondering if it's just one of those male/female-way-we-handle-things-differently things. I know I've done this a bunch of times, if I'm making reservations for a nice dinner, and I know it's something my girlfriends have done.
Hell - I've planned whole vacations with 7 days of multi-reservations.
Might also be a severe Type A thing. :oP
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Twixlen wrote >>
and they'd made prior arrangements with the restaurant (not uncommon, as
that is a very female thing to do).I so want to argue this... but for the life of me I can't recall a time when me and the guys have made reservations.
I'm wondering if it's just one of those male/female-way-we-handle-things-differently things. I know I've done this a bunch of times, if I'm making reservations for a nice dinner, and I know it's something my girlfriends have done.
Hell - I've planned whole vacations with 7 days of multi-reservations.
Might also be a severe Type A thing. :oPI dunno... me and the guys generally pick a place and show up. If the group is larger than 10 - 15 we limit our choice to a place that could handle that without spending 30 minutes on table tetris.
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lifeontwowheels
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KSquared wrote >>
somertimeoh wrote >>
It's Restaurant Week, there's assumptions on how quickly tables will turn in order to fill reservations. Not turning that table within a reasonable time can mess up the whole flow of your evening. If a place doesn't take reservations and they are maintaining a steady flow of drinks, who cares. To Kara's point, this was not a regular Thursday night.Yep. If the point of RW is, among other things, for the restaurants to be exposed to as many diners as possible this definitely doesn't help, as well as just being rude to fellow diners. I've argued this on other threads, so I'll give it a rest and everyone can go back to talking about horses and such.
This probably gets into a whole other discussion, but as long as they are compensating their server fairly and making up for the potential loss as a result of their camping, does it matter?
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somertimeoh
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Not if they are expecting to seat 3+ more parties at those tables before close and now everyone's reservations are running 30+ minutes behind because of it. Think of all the sour moods you've created. Pretty sure that's not good for that server in the long run.
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Twixlen
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I dunno. Again - I think we just don't know the individual circumstances. Sure, when I was waiting tables, I'd have people camp out, maybe have a couple more drinks, and keep me from reseating - much to my detriment. Then again, I'd have tables where folks would camp out, only order a couple more drinks, and leave me a serious tip for said camping. You just didn't know, and you had to treat them all the same.
Also - everyone's money is equal - camping or not, if they are still there, spending money, I just can't call it rude, RW or not. Not everyone gets to eat out all the time - if it takes RW to get them there, that's just the nature of the business and of doing such promotions.
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KSquared
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Twixlen wrote >>
Not everyone gets to eat out all the time - if it takes RW to get them there, that's just the nature of the business and of doing such promotions.Exactly. If you are trying Rigsby's for the first time and even though you have a reservation you have to wait for a half hour or more, would you come back?
I'm not saying that happened here, but I'd guess that if it did, someone ended up upset.EDIT: I see your point also, and will agree to just disagree on the rest :)
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Twixlen
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KSquared wrote >>
Twixlen wrote >>
Not everyone gets to eat out all the time - if it takes RW to get them there, that's just the nature of the business and of doing such promotions.Exactly. If you are trying Rigsby's for the first time and even though you have a reservation you have to wait for a half hour or more, would you come back?
I'm not saying that happened here, but I'd guess that if it did, someone ended up upset.
EDIT: I see you point also, and will agree to just disagree on the rest :)And that is where the restaurant's ability to manage stuff on the fly comes in. I have made reservations and waited that long - it happens. How I've felt about the situation all depends on how the front staff/management manage any unusually long delay - any restaurant worth their salt will handle it, handle it well, and maybe even turn the situation into a positive.
Edited to handle your edit -- I also see your point, and yes, it's an agree to disagree thing. That's what makes the world go around. And more interesting!
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KSquared
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Twixlen wrote >>
KSquared wrote >>
Twixlen wrote >>
Not everyone gets to eat out all the time - if it takes RW to get them there, that's just the nature of the business and of doing such promotions.Exactly. If you are trying Rigsby's for the first time and even though you have a reservation you have to wait for a half hour or more, would you come back?
I'm not saying that happened here, but I'd guess that if it did, someone ended up upset.
EDIT: I see you point also, and will agree to just disagree on the rest :)And that is where the restaurant's ability to manage stuff on the fly comes in. I have made reservations and waited that long - it happens. How I've felt about the situation all depends on how the front staff/management manage any unusually long delay - any restaurant worth their salt will handle it, handle it well, and maybe even turn the situation into a positive.
We aren't going to agree on this and I don't think either one of us is going to change her mind. I do the value in your point, I just don't 100% agree with it, and think that diners have a obligation to be courteous as well as the restaurant having an obligation to handle it well.
EDIT: Ha ha just caught your edit too. At least we can agree on being anti-anti-bacterial! :)Posted 2 years ago # -
KSquared
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Twixlen wrote >>
And now I'm crackin' up!And who knows, one of these nights I might be having an amazing dinner and lingering at the table despite my best intentions and I'll be grateful that the restaurant handles it well :) I guess things are probably not as absolute as I would like to make them sometimes.
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Twixlen
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KSquared wrote >>
Twixlen wrote >>
And now I'm crackin' up!And who knows, one of these nights I might be having an amazing dinner and lingering at the table despite my best intentions and I'll be grateful that the restaurant handles it well :) I guess things are probably not as absolute as I would like to make them sometimes.
See! And I might have a ressie, and show up and end up waiting, and see the culprits across the dining room and think SHE WAS RIGHT! IT'S RUDE!
Here's where we hug, and braid each other's hair.
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