To ask for a bigger table?

[rightsaidurs]

We are doing bottomless food at this restaurant
There's me and partner and you get 2 mains ,1 starter and 1 side each at any given time
So 4 mains -2starters and 2 sides plus drinks and this is the table they give us ...
I ask to move and we can't because there's only two of us
Was i unreasonable here to ask for a bigger table ?

It depends, was it at a busy time? It would be unreasonable to take a table for 4 if there’s just two of you. You cost the restaurant money if you insist on a bigger table.

Two people taking up a table for 4 is a PITA for any restaurant tbh.
YWNBU to ask, but they WNBU to decline your request.
Why all the food all at once though, could you not stagger it a bit?

@pootlin my point was there wasn't enough room for everything on the table
They advertised bottomless but couldn't actually get everything on the table
We had no room to eat ,I knocked my drink over because I had no space to cut my food

@YoureWinningAtLife you get 90 mins there ,they bring everything out at once so you have enough time

Surely, you would get your starters first then mains and sides? So not all in the table at the same time.

@Hadalifeonce no you order everything together and they bring it all together as it's like a tapas place
So at one point we had 8 things needing to be put on the table

YANBU, but these places try to male you uncomfortable so you don't eat too much.

If that's their standard way of doing things presumably most pairs of diners manage somehow?
Seems like an odd arrangement, it's not a 'starter' if it comes with the mains. And are they 2 full sized mains?

@ErrolTheDragon the bottomless things is new this week
Normally you would just get your starters then your mains etc
We have been before and had a 2 table but only had 1 starter ,1 main etc

If you can't fit all your food on the table, maybe order less food? It's a standard sized table for two people for a meal and you could still get plenty on there.

How is it bottomless if they give you a set amount of food? If it genuinely wouldn't fit I'd have asked them to provide a side table, they likely have just moved you.

I am not sure what I would find most unreasonable, ordering that amount of food in one go, or asking for a bigger table because you ordered that amount of food in one go. 🤔

It's a bottomless we paid for
They tell you to order 2 starters -2 mains etc and you get to try the menu that way

It all just sounds completely grim. And I would call myself pretty greedy,

What's grim about it?
Honestly some of the comments on here never fail to make me howl

Stuffing your face like that is pretty grim.

@Picklestop it's a bottomless brunch
We didn't eat everything obviously
The whole point is you get to try bits of all the mains so you not restricted to just 1 main course

Starting a thread about how you can't get all the food you ordered onto a normal sized table for two. Wanting to fit a shitload on there as it's a bottomless deal and you want the max possible. The restaurant obviously wanting to limit this as despite advertising bottomless they want to minimise how far you go.

Grim.

Ignore the starvers. It’s a bugbear of mine that tables for two are so small. There’s an Italian we eat at, where if you order garlic bread as a side they bring it on a stand and you have to put it on the floor! Surely restaurants should accept that a table for two should be able to accommodate dinner plates, side plates and drinks at the very least, not buy tiny tables in an attempt to squeeze in more covers. Tapasy type places need even more space.

@ILoveMyCatButHesAPervert the restaurant state you order 2 mains ,1 starter each and 1 side
They made the rules -since when has eating been grim?
The audacity to have food -

I suspect it's one of THOSE restaurants where 'bottomless' means endless drinks but the food is plated.
If the food is tapas style then it comes in dribs and drabs which would explain the small table.

OP should really have researched this beforehand.

@ILoveSalmonSpread drinks aren't included
It's food bottomless only
Everything came together -hence table not big enough

If you don't eat everything does that mean that they give you too much to eat with the idea being that you get to try different things? I don't understand how this differs from tapas or small plates? Are they just bigger servings?

I find the whole premise of this really wasteful but that aside, I've sat on much smaller tables with 8+ dishes on. Surely you just decant them on to your plate and give the empty plates back or pile them up.

@WeAreWarriorsWeAreWarriors you get to order 2 mains at a time but they aren't main sized portions as normal but you can order as many mains as you like in orders of 2 at a time