My friends were wanting Thai food and I suggested we go to Wild Thaiger, since it's so good. So we walk in, it's not very busy. Several open tables. The hostess says to wait and runs into the kitchen to talk to a woman putting take out food into bags, she slowly comes back and says "we're understaffed and it will be about 10min before a waiter can get to us". I said that's fine, and asked can we just go sit at the empty table of four then and we'll wait. She looked at me like I said something foreign and refused and said no. I said we can't be seated at the empty table for our party? At this point I'm getting mad and say to her I don't understand why you're refusing to seat us and can wait but you want us to stand in front of the hostess desk. I said never mind, we're leaving, never have been refused to be seated before. She didn't answer, gave me a dirty look and we walked out. I've never experienced anything like that. It's not my fault your understaffed on a weekend, you could have easily seated us with no problem. Absolute horrendous customer service. I've been to your place many times and will not be returning after that.