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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Making a 1:30 pm reservation shouldn't have been option without a note somewhere that they close at 2 pm.
I'm surprised that you have worked in a restaurant and the experience made you come and comment here.
I haven't worked nights for awhile (we don't close the restaurant), but people staying 30 min to an hour after closing was normal.Some tables wait for the other tables to leave and nobody is leaving. It's painful because there is so much work to be done that we cannot do unless the tables leave. The  dishwasher would like to clean all dishes, but they can't. People are so clueless. [/quote]

(OP) I was surprised because this kind of thing would never have happened at the place I worked.  If we seated you, we would give you full service.  Dropping a check while a party was in the middle of dining, without offering coffee, dessert, or after-dinner drinks, because you wanted them to GTFO so you could close up and leave, was not done.  Was it annoying when a walk-in party arrived at 9:55 and we had to seat them per restaurant policy?  Yes, but it's the service industry, and every job has things that are annoying.

I wasn't planning on camping at the table and I didn't stiff the server for a policy she had no control over, but I didn't like paying ~$100 for drinks, lunch, and tip, and feeling rushed.

I could understand being warned of an abbreviated service if I were a walk-in, or arrived late to my reservation, but that wasn't the case.  [/quote]

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