usually they look at how many there are
usually when i go out for a friends bday or just in general even, theres usually quite a bit of people, so obviously they take us to the bigger tables (which usually happen to be in the "nicer" spots). But somtiems if its too full, they'll group together a bunch of smaller tables; make do with what they have.
i think its mostly for load balancing. I sometimes overhear "check table XX" (where XX is any number) so maybe they have certain table ranges provided to certain waitresses, and it just wouldnt be efficient service if they seated for example 7/10 tables which is assigned to waitress 1, and only 2/10 tables which is assigned to waitress 2.
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