Not eating there

[bordellosboheme]

Long story short. It was a friends birthday and she invited 15 of us to a local pub for lunch. She had reserved us tables. As soon as I arrived the manger said to me.... 'We need your tables' there are other people coming after you. I asked her what time she needed us out (baring in mind we had booked) and she refused to give a time, instead saying 'I'm sending the bar manger up to speak to everyone'. Wibu at this point, to flounce off and not order a meal as I felt under time pressure and treated badly. Gutted as had not seen my mates for ages. They later came around to the house and apparently the woman treated them like that too. They were annoyed too. We were spending a couple of hundred quid there probably.....

You left and everyone else stayed to eat? Ywbu!

I am too confused to comment.

Yes! You were.

[whatthefuck]

I had come slightly later so I got the tirade as I went in. I was not going to give them my custom or money after that. My friend and her hubby also left without paying, they were so disgusted by the service.

I don't understand

Left without paying=robbery doesn't it?

Yes YWBU.

However I would have sat down, ordered 15 meals, then all of us get up and leave telling the manager "sorry, no time!"

I don't understand: do you mean you walked out, without even seeing your friends in the pub because of this? In which case, yes, YWBU. Were you late and that's why the manager spoke to you?

Plenty of places will let you know you can only have a table up to a certain time because usually that means they can effectively get another sitting in for dinner. Personally I hate being told you have to be out by a certain time if the going out for a meal is the main event.

(WITHOUT PAYING, OBVIOUSLY)

X post - well how rude were you being late to your friend's birthday meal then walking out? It sounds to me as though you and your friends are pretty rude people after what you've posted about your friend and her husband.

Wow fudge 20 mins late (with a small child) and I gave my friend her presents n told her what happened. Would you put up with shit service like that?

So did the rest of them stay and have a meal? ,desperately trying to understand>

Table was booked, restaurant has a turn over, you were late. I do wish people would put the full picture up in the first place.

Oh so 2 sittings? That's not out of the ordinary is it?

No I wouldn't put up with service like that. It was only 20 minutes fgs! I've waited longer for a main meal before and still left a tip!

I am confused but if my friend's were there I would probably have joined my friend's and made the the best out of the situation. And complained to the manager if it was utterly crap. But I wouldn't try to spoil my mate's birthday.

Bordello your original post is not clear at all - and so what if you had a small child with you? Unless something happened which made you late, you should have made sure you got there on time.

I'm with HowContrary on this.

This is perfectly normal for pubs in my area (East Sussex) - they even let you know when booking that they will need the table again after a couple of hours - so if we want a long leisurely meal, we take the later bookings. Obviously, being 20 mins late for the booked time would cut down the amount of time left to eat, before the table is needed again for a later booking. If you had made the later booking, would you think it was reasonable to be kept waiting for your table because an earlier diner had turned up late?

I can't be arsed with Princess like flouncing. You were late turning up for a friends birthday, the pub needed the table. Do you expect the restaurant to revolve it's business around you? YWVU. Personally, if you were my friend I wouldn't be pandering to your princess like flouncing tendencies either and would not have been visiting you at home due to your rudeness!

Eh?!

Why on earth would you behave like that? What did your friend think when you told her you weren't staying?

Good point Pancake

One guest turning up twenty minutes late IS a big deal because it delays the order being taken, which delays the food being served, which means that it's not possible to turn the table over in the expected time period (two hours in most places). If it was a group of 15 people then the pub very likely didn't take any bookings for a half-hour period after the time of your booking, to give the kitchen time to deal with a large order without lots of other smaller orders coming in at the same time. So not only were the kitchen staff probably standing around waiting for the big table's order, but the half-hour-after-yours bookings would have started showing up and ordering too by the time you decided to rock up, thus fucking up the whole service.

You were in the wrong.

And just so you know, when customers like you loudly declare that they're "NEVER COMING HERE AGAIN!" the person on the receiving end doesn't think "Oh God, what have I done?!"

They think "RESULT!"