It has happened before that we have ordered and received our food and ended up eating it out in the full sun on a bench. No one would tolerate this at any other restaurant. Order and pay for your meal then find out there's no where to sit.
Hey if customers were to follow the order, then sit, then eat pattern, there would have been a table inside for you when you were about to eat.
That's how controlling seating works.
As for table turnover. The price of my meal buys me a place to sit for the event. If I want to sit for ten or fifteen minutes and have a conversation after the entree while deciding whether to have coffee, cake, or a cocktail, it's my table, no o e else has a claim to it. If that time extends ten or fifteen minutes prior to the food arriving, then so be it.
Ten-fifteen minutes prior to have food, plus ten-fifteen minutes after finishing, plus X minutes to actually eat? Overly presumptuous.
A little nervy, much??? Seems much more rude to me than quietly getting a table you 'will' use and waiting for food
How would you advise one adult with one six year old to do this? Having more people in one's party shouldn't enable, allow, or encourage people to act unfairly.
Next trip we are a party of 12. I can't see us having a parade with three trays of food, followed by 8 kids and a wheelchair roaming here and there looking for spots. Granted I'm not looking for a table for 12, but at least in the same room/area to find a couple of tables. I'd give my DD the job of doing the mobile ordering for that.
Eat at off times. Have the right people wait out of the way but not at tables. Um, other than BOG, which AS locations have multiple rooms?
Having twin toddlers and a preschooler, I often sent by husband and kids to a table - who wants to stay behind a stroller and a large family in line.
The parent with three children but no additional adult - the one with no other option. But really truly, your party doesn't need to wait at a table without food. Nobody's does.
As long as families are buying lunch then they should be able to get a table
As long as any guest is buying food, they should be able to get a table when they are ready to eat it. Families don't have precedence. Traveling parties differ dramatically in size.
I do think it's frustrating when people just use the tables to take a rest even if they aren't buying food!
When customers to find a table while one person gets in line, it's impossible to determine who's waiting for food vs who's just resting. Ergo, sit
with food seems a he best solution.
Totally agree with this to me finding a table is a pre requisite for ordering food. Its up to the restaurant to make sure they have enough seating not the customers
They do have enough seating when every single party follows the same procedure. Larger parties are flexible, small/solo parties are not. Therefore, the best solution for everyone is, again: order, then sit, then eat.
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