Arrived at restaurant with booking for 1 pm. We'd booked a a nice table in the window. Four mums were sitting chatting and feeding their babies, they'd finished eating and drinking. We were asked to wait as our table wasn't ready.
By 20 past we were given another more cramped table as ours hadn't been vacated. Throughout our meal people arrived waiting for tables as it had created a domino effect of having to wait for a table that was allocated the the group after them.
The mums left about when we did, an hour and a quarter after we'd arrived having not eaten or drunk themselves in that time.
What is a restaurant owner to do? If he'd gently asked them to leave, they could have left a Tripadvisor review saying that the restaurant discouraged baby feeding. Does the fact that you're a mother of a small child confer mystical table rights on you?
I know how it feels to need a comfortable place and the time to feed my baby but was this not a bit over the top?
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AIBU?
To be mildly annoyed that table hoggers spoiled our meal a bit.
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Corialanusburt · 11/03/2017 14:01
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