Well yesterday's plan to have Corned Beef and Cabbage hit a big problem. I went to Archie's early so we so we would not have a long wait for our table. I arrived at 3:12 P.M. and told the hostess we had a party of 15, and I knew we could not have a reservation, but wanted to get set up and told her we would start arriving at 3:30 P.M. The hostess and a waitress went back and set up our tables so we could sit down, but told us we had to wait until we had all assembled because they had a policy of not seating partial parties.
Well other parties of people came in and were seated right away while we waited and waited for our tables. I looked in the front dining room and there were 4+ tables open, but not together. I looked in the back dining room and there were many tables open, but there were no tables setup together for us anymore.
I looked for the hostess, spotted her coming out of the kitchen, and asked her why our tables were no longer set up? She said the owner made her take them apart and seat people in them as they came in. I approached the owner and asked him "why did you have the hostess take our tables apart" I asked in a normal conversational tone and did not use and bad language. He said we do not accept reservations. I then said "I am aware of that, but I was here waiting", the owner he then said to me "Watch how you talk to me or I will not seat you at all".
I just could not believe an owner would use that tone and be so rude to a customer. I was so upset I left Archie's and several of us went to Golden Corral where we were seated pretty quickly and had a nice reasonable meal. I will never go back to Archie's and I am posting this report on Yelp. I hope you all managed to have a good meal in spite of this.