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| - Reserved an area for a coworkers retirement party and they provided us 4 counter height tables with ten chairs. We previously told them we expected 40-50 people. Needless to say, we ended up having about 30 people standing up the entire time. We all wanted to order food, but without sufficient tables, there was nowhere for us to actually eat the food.
We asked if we could get additional tables or be seated elsewhere, and they said NO because the tables were for customers. (?!?) the restaurant was about 80-90% empty at this point.
We tried to sit at the nearly empty bar, but the shoo'd us away because they said they were expecting customers. I'm not sure what they thought we were, but we were a group of 40-50 teachers (who made reservations) at the end of the school year. If anyone is going to order a ton of drinks, it is a group of teachers at the end of the school year.
From the moment we walked in, they constantly told us we weren't customers, even though we had called weeks ahead and reserved an area. We had all planned on drinking and ordering a lot of food. They didn't want to serve us and made it very clear.
Our server was hostile. When I spoke to the manager, she said, "what do you want me to do about it? The seating areas are for customers." Also, the manager told us we couldn't stand near the tables because of fire code. Have I mentioned that the restaurant was 80% empty and they refused to seat us or allow to sit at the bar? They basically gave us a 10x10 area to stand in.
The bottom line is that this restaurant basically refused to serve a group of 50 teachers who had made a reservation for a party.
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