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Seating at a restaurant
Something Flyguy said in the Tipping thread got me thinking about something that has bothered me.
FG said this: "I never frivolously tip just for the sake of tipping. Everybody and their mother expects a tip nowadays. You'll only get 15% from me if the service was really good. And I mean exceptional. Making me wait, sitting me at the shittiest table in the place when it's half full, will reduce your total tip."
My wife and I go out to eat on average once a week. We go to fairly nice sit down restaurants, like Maggianno's, Fridays, Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, etc. Many times, when the place is half full or LESS, we get put at the back corner table next to the fire escape. So basically we get put at the shitty table. I realize many of you at this point will be asking, well they aren't dressed well. Never the case. I always have nice clothes on and look well to go to a place like this. I haven't figured out why we tend to get sent to the "shit" tables. I finally had the courage to ask one waiter why this was the case, and he said it was because he didn't have anyone in his section.
Well, why did we get put at the shitty table in your section and why is the other (half) front section full when the back section isn't?
Can anyone, especially restaurant waiters, seaters, etc. explain this me?
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That is my 2 cents.
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