This place opens at noon for lunch. I stepped in at 12:05 to an empty restaurant with only one gentleman seated at a 4-person table. The waiter asked whether I was with that gentleman, I said no, and then proceeded to sit down at a table. The waiter then told me: "Don't sit, wait here please" at the cashier. I first thought he wanted to wipe down the table and prepare the cutlery for my table of 3. However, after the table wiping, he proceeded to fiddle with cutlery at the kitchen, fold napkins, talk to the cooks and at some point even count cash at the cash register. At around the 5 minute waiting mark I asked: "Excuse me, are the tables taken? What am I waiting for?" to which he sternly replied: "No we don't take reservations and none of the tables are taken but you cannot sit down until your friends have arrived." I almost couldn't believe my ears. The waiter just asked me 5 minutes ago whether I was with that gentleman that was seated at a table by himself, which means clearly he was allowed to sit and wait for his party. Honestly, the "no seating allowed until the whole party is here" policy is fine - but only if it is applied consistently to everybody and stated right when customers arrive.
Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. If standing around in an empty line in an empty restaurant being unable to sit down because of borderline discriminatory seating practices wasn't humiliating enough, just remembering how average the food tastes at this place from the several times I have been there was enough to deter me from leaving the restaurant - and NEVER coming back again.