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  • #1

    I demand immediate service!

    I went out to dinner at the Outback Steakhouse with the GF last night. We opted to sit at a bar table (self-seating) rather than wait 20 minutes for a table in the dining room.

    After we ordered but before the food arrived, my GF commented about how rude "that guy" was.

    I had missed it because I had my back to the door, but some guy had breezed in the door, blew right past the hostess without a word, sat down at a DIRTY TABLE in the bar area, and then the moment a server happened to walk by he demanded to know when he was going to get service.

    Bloody hell, who pissed in his cornflakes this morning?? The servers were running around like headless chickens and he had just barely satg down.

    Impatient much?
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  • #2
    That's the sort of customer who deserves the response, "As soon as I get to everybody who was here before you, and who waited far more patiently and politely that you did."

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    • #3
      Um, wow. Classic EW there. I really hope they made him leave, someone was more than likely waiting that table for far longer than he clearly had the patience for. Hope yours and the girlfriend's dinners were decent at least.

      Although I do wonder if perhaps he was just really, really stupid (as in walked right past the host(ess) desk without seeing it) and thought it was self seating...
      Some people just need a high five...

      In the face with the back of a chair....

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      • #4
        would serve him right if that section was being closed too.

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        • #5
          Have there ever been any studies into why customers upon entering a restaurant full of clean tables and just one dirty table, they will, more often than not, choose the dirty one? I'm sure there's something in human psychology about it!

          It ALWAYS happens. The customers aren't always sucky about it and will wait for it to be cleaned, but still really annoying.

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          • #6
            pd- Maybe because it's an indication that a Server is assigned to it (...just like every other table that isn't roped off...) ? ~_~
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            • #7
              That's possible I guess. I sometimes wonder if its a kind of 'ooh, someone's sat on that one, so it must be good' thought process, which makes....some sort of sense, I suppose.

              In relation to the OP, I doubt the customers waiting in line were very happy to see someone breeze past them to a seat either! Just horribly inconsiderate of everyone involved.

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              • #8
                I think it might be more along the lines of, "I'm going to sit here, and they'll have to serve me!"
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                • #9
                  Or more along hte lines "I'll sit at this dirty table and they'll HAVE to clean it so I'll KNOW that everything here will be clean as opposed to those tables that have sat empty for who knows how long and gotten dusty and dirty...."

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