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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

DP. Not a restaurant with table service. This is the cafe analogy (PP even said FAST FOOD place CHIPOTLE). I don't know how they could make it more clear to you. You don't sit at a table before you get your counter food.

Again, even so, tables are also for sitting. Why does everyone in my party need to mill around while I order food? After I order, I am sitting until the food is ready for pickup.

100% normal. Don’t listen to the weirdo who expects you to search for a table once you have an armload of food. Idiotic.

But no one would need to search for one if people followed societal norms and didn't put their coat down or their kids down at an empty table prior to getting in line to order. There would be available tables.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

No way. I have never heard of such a thing at a cafe. If my kid wants to sit down while order then they sit down while I order. That’s not saving a space that’s using one.

And if I'm standing there with my food and no table, and waiting for the entire time you're ordering while your kids sit there, not needing the table yet, staring at me, and I wait for a few min until a different person finishes eating and take THEIR table, at about the same time you arrive with your food- you see what could have happened? I could have sat down, started eating, and then like magic, another table would have been ready for you by the time you needed one. Those places run on the assumption that each party needs the table for approximately 10-15min. If you instead decide you're special and your kids are gonna sit there for 10min prior to you sitting down with all the food, then each table is being used for 25min instead, and suddenly if everyone does this, there arent enough tables during the busy lunch hour. Because half of them have people sitting at them who don't actually need them yet. I hope this helps.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

DP. Not a restaurant with table service. This is the cafe analogy (PP even said FAST FOOD place CHIPOTLE). I don't know how they could make it more clear to you. You don't sit at a table before you get your counter food.

Again, even so, tables are also for sitting. Why does everyone in my party need to mill around while I order food? After I order, I am sitting until the food is ready for pickup.

Please read my post. I'm talking about sitting BEFORE YOU HAVE ORDERED. while your partner is IN LINE AT CHIPOTLE, ORDERING FOR YOU GUYS.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

Restaurants with a waiter are different than fast food such as chipotle. You absolutely should not sit at a table (unless the place is only half full or something) and then wait 10 minutes for your friend to go through the line and order food for you guys and pay for it. If the place is full and people are standing around with trays looking for a table, and you're sitting at one scrolling your phone with no food even though your friend is still 8 people back in the line at chipotle, YTA.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

Have you ever been to a restaurant before? Because that's not how that works.

How what works?

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I think it's wrong to reserve a folding table with laundry baskets, but not wrong to reserve a table before ordering at a coffee shop. If I intend to have my coffee "for here" I'm not going to stay and order if I might not have a place to sit.

Same

The laundry and the cafe/counter service restaurant are different situations. You have options with the laundry, you can fold right out of the machine if you need to. When you have hands full of food plated for eating in and there is no where to go you have a problem.

Interesting. I think it's wrong to reserve a folding table with laundry baskets, but not wrong to reserve a table before ordering at a coffee shop. If I intend to have my coffee "for here" I'm not going to stay and order if I might not have a place to sit.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

Have you ever been to a restaurant before? Because that's not how that works.

Anonymous wrote:You were wrong to park your empty basket.

I agree. What did you expect that person to do when it was her turn to fold the laundry, there was no space, and your baskets were just sitting there?

OP - If you had not reserved the spot, had finished drying your clothes, had seen all the tables in use but noticed there were empty baskets "reserving" an area, would you move the baskets? Probably...so now you know! Agree I give you props for open mindedness!

Anonymous wrote:You were wrong to park your empty basket.

This. No reserving tables.

OP, you sound entitled.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Here,

Thank you everyone for responding!

I appreciate the honest responses and I now stand 100000% corrected.

Good points made.

You were definitely in the wrong OP.
But I want to add that I really respect your being so open minded in accepting responsibility for being so. Your lack of defensiveness is really lovely and I am thinking you must be a genuinely lovely person too.

Thank you for the kind compliment.

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OP Here

You were wrong to think an empty table should go unused because you might eventually use it. Next time, just pull your clothes out of the dryer one by one and fold them and drop them into the basket. I used to do that occasionally if a table wasn't available and I had something I didn't want to get wrinkled. Sometimes I'd pay for the wash and fold service too, which is costly but nice. I only did that when I wasn't washing bedding because the charge for that is over the top.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect you’re the person who moved the baskets because clearly the person who reserved the table with baskets was in the wrong. Similar to how someone will sit down at the last empty table of a busy fast food place (chipotle, etc) while their partner stands in line to place orders. That person sits there as people stand with trays of food looking for a seat. Get food, THEN get table, people. The tables turn over fast. But not if they’re all being reserved by people who don’t even have their food yet.

Different situation. Tables are also for sitting in a restaurant. It's not unused when someone sits there waiting for the order. Otherwise, you would order in restaurants and be seated when your food arrives from the kitchen.

DP. Not a restaurant with table service. This is the cafe analogy (PP even said FAST FOOD place CHIPOTLE). I don't know how they could make it more clear to you. You don't sit at a table before you get your counter food.

Again, even so, tables are also for sitting. Why does everyone in my party need to mill around while I order food? After I order, I am sitting until the food is ready for pickup.

100% normal. Don’t listen to the weirdo who expects you to search for a table once you have an armload of food. Idiotic.

+1 Everybody does this. In a perfect world we would all wait but in reality nobody does. If you did you would be the sucker with no table.