Evicted from table half way through a meal?

[Sagacity]

Took DH and DD out for lunch at a new local restaurant. We went at opening time having booked a table the previous day. We were first there and were asked to choose any table we liked, so we chose one in the middle. Restaurant was pretty quiet, only two other sets of diners came in. Anyway half way through our meal the owner asked us to move to another table as some other people had booked this table. To prevent causing a scene we moved but now I'm fuming to have been treated so badly. There wasn't anything that special about our table.

YANBU. That's ridiculous. Did they interrupt you in between courses at least, and not actually while any of you were putting food in your mouths?!!

Oh I must be a hard old so-and-so (unlike the lovely Helpyourself) but I would kick up a fuss about this. If you are a new restaurant and don't realise how inept you have been in a situation such as this (at a time when you should be wooing and winning cusomers) then you don't really deserve to succeed.

Very foolish of them to behave like that if they are newly opened!

I would probably have moved if there was good reason (like wheelchair access) but would have expected some freebies as a gesture of good will.

Yes, absolutely like Fawlty Towers!

Well, you moved, so there's no point in wasting your energy moaning or fuming about it now, is there? The time to complain or object was there and then.

I'd have thought you'd have been offered a free drink or dessert for your trouble, but if you moved without any objection then perhaps not.

Sounds like an honest mistake to me, maybe the waitress hadn't been working there for long. It would have been nice if they'd have offered a free round or something though. Mistakes happen everywhere every now and then, you're unlucky if they happen to handle you, but whether you choose to go back or not should depend on how they were handled.

Just seen that the restaurant was new, so nobody would have been working there for long! Whoops.

You would think though that it being a new restaurant wouldn't prevent the staff from having previous experience or having eaten in a restaurant themselves!

Horribly bad service in my opinion. If you liked the food and would otherwise think of going back and I would go in and politely let them know that they offended you, if not, give it a big miss.

Well it's not ideal, but nothing to fume over or let play on your mind. On the grand scale of things.

Ah I did this once, I showed them pics of my brother Bilo and took a dump in a bag and brought it to table. Then called up Lunella to come for dessert, but got kicked out, bad times :(