I’m on holiday in Spain with two other adults. This evening we had dinner in an Asian restaurant. We wanted dessert, but they didn’t serve it. So we decided to go to another restaurant following our main course for dessert.
We got a table in another restaurant, but when we asked the waitress for the chocolate cake, she asked “but are you going to order dinner?” We said no, we just wanted dessert and coffees/drinks as we’d already had our dinner. She immediately said “no no no”, looked very disapproving and actually tutted at us! She took away our menus and pointed for us to leave.
We were genuinely gobsmacked at being turfed out for only wanting dessert. I understand that they probably wanted people who would have a bigger bill, but we would have spent €30 on what we wanted. We were tired too so weren’t going to hog the table for hours, it was literally a case of eating the dessert and going back to our hotel. they could have had our €30 on top of whatever the next diners would spend!
We have never come across this before. We’ve all gone for just dessert to restaurants in the UK with no issues, and we’ve even done it once before in Spain on this holiday. I actually lived in a different part of Spain for a year while I was at uni and I’ve never heard of this as a blanket rule. The way the waitress reacted (and not explaining why) made it seem like we had transgressed some widely known rule.
We ended up going to a different restaurant for dessert and it wasn’t a problem. AIBU to be taken aback?