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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'll disagree with the "you're rude" consensus.  I don't think you were rude.  [b]Being kind of oblivious[/b] is not the same thing as being intentionally rude, and it's not the restaurant customer's responsibility to think about the restaurant's bottom line when you're in the middle of socializing with friends.  OP does not have to behave in such a way as to maximize the restaurant profits.  Like some PPs have said, it was actually the restaurant's rudeness to ask them to leave without being gracious and offering something else--I've worked in restaurants, and agree with PP that it was forbidden to ever ask a patron to leave.

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I'm pp who asked OP to imagine the opposite: would she have wanted them to vacate if she was the one with later reservations with friends she hadn't seen in 6 months?  We're all oblivious to others at some point, but I think OP asking the question makes people wonder how frequently she is *kind of oblivious* because she is bothered by this. But, only she can answer that. We all know people who are kind of oblivious all too often.

Re the people who said their restaurants would never ask someone to leave, I think it truly depends on the situation. A few weeks ago we were out at a neighborhood restaurant and there was 45 min wait; we ran into 4 families we knew and people were walking in and leaving because it was a crush. There was one table who was sitting around after a half hour and the table had been *promised* to a family "they're signing the check now..." Well, the crowd was getting very angry, it was almost mob-like, and they caved at 45 minutes and asked them to leave. It was kind of funny because everyone waiting was commenting on it since they were in full view of the waiting area. [/quote]

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