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| - My friends and I went here for some drinks, and were told that, if we weren't ordering food, that we'd have to sit at a bar. We wanted a table, so we agreed to order food. So we sit down and order 3 appetisers, one for each of us, and some drinks (which is what we really came for).
The woman we had serving us was really kind and helpful. But a male staffer said that we would have to move to the bar to free up the table once we finished our appetisers. Apparently, we hadn't ordered enough food to justify our occupation of a table. As not to inconvenience them further with our patronage, we paid our bill and went to the Firkin up the street (and grudgingly left a tip for the kind woman server although the tips get pooled meaning the rude male server would get part of it).
Bumping customers from tables is such bad business that it was used a comedic gag in Fawlty Towers. You don't kick paying customers from tables because you aren't making as much money from them as you could if a hungry family of four was at their table.
If you must move people, you ask them professionaly like others have asked me to move a few times by coming up to the table and saying "we're really sorry, but we have a large group who needs this table. Would it be OK if we could move you to another table? Yes? Thank you so much! Let us buy you a drink or a dessert. Again, we're so sorry and thank you so much!"
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