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| - A few friends and I finally made it down with our bicycles to spend the day touring the islands on wheels, with the highlight supposed to be an apres at the Rectory Cafe. While we passed it both around the front and the back during the ride, we saw many empty tables and looked forward to a leisurely late lunch/early dinner when we were done.
Wrong! We locked up our bikes and went in. There was no line-up, and I didn't even register that we were being turned away - there would be about an hour wait, they weren't serving in the dining room inside, and other people would be arriving for their reservations. Reservations? The entire indoor dining room empty and off limits, and dozens of tables outside sitting fallow. The few tables that were being used for service were indeed occupied, but sucks to be you if you don't book a serviced table in advance.
This is the precious cafe that threatened they would have to close during the beginning of the soggy season because people weren't still coming to the islands, even though they were open during the spring flood? They wanted a handout from the city because they're not busy enough when it suits them? This was the first long weekend since the flooding that the islands were fully open, with beautiful weather and an opportunity to make up for the dire lack of business. But, they still prefer to turn people away because they can't be bothered to service all their tables and the customers should know better, you should have booked earlier and said you'd come back.
I'd rather go to establishments where the customers are the reason they're in business, not the other way around. Keep your snot. Won't bother grovelling for another opportunity to come back.
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