Yeah surely that scene in the Netflix doc where he blithely rechristened their OBVIOUS FRAUD as false advertising was a confession of knowledge/complicity/guilt. Also, false advertising is ALSO ILLEGAL!?

I love the “I don’t know how everything went so left” idea. Yeah dude, it went left the first time you didn’t listen to experienced people who said what needed to be done in order to make the event happen. Or, I dunno, maybe it was when the first engineer hired to figure out the water and waste management part of…

I’m pretty sure lying to get people’s money for goods/services you have no intention or ability to produce is pretty much the textbook definition of fraud.

Yes. Carries clothes, except for a few outfits, were ridiculous. OTOH Samantha’s clothes were fabulous.

I am in love with that skirt. Not the gold shirt thing (ugh) or the heels (cute, but doesn’t strike me all that deeply) but the skirt... so much lust.

I graduated from a Catholic high school in 2011 and this kids reminds me so strongly of the little shits in my class who’d make provocative sexual comments at one of the girls in my class who moved here from Columbia.

And our point is that tapas is Spanish for appetizers. 

Not necessarily. The smaller tables might be reserved, or they might be in a different server’s section, and if they are moved you’re talking about a transition in service which can result in a poorer experience all around.

ILY

I just did this the other night.  I told the hostess that my original party of 5 was going to be 4.  She thanked me and found mea four top right away.  Everybody’s happy.

Seriously, why do parents (and it’s usually women, but not always) feel the need to insert that fact into conversations that have nothing to do with it? The question was about seating incomplete parties. It had nothing to do with children, and all prefacing the question with this did was predispose me to dislike the…

we stopped inviting people that cant make it on time. they arent grown ups and shouldnt be allowed to sit at the grownup table. being late once in awhile because of traffic or car issues is one thing. but never having your shit together shows you shouldnt ever leave the house. i dont even drive with my mom to go…

Wow, this was a fantastic explanation for why servers should make regular minimum wage or more and how that would make going out to eat WAAAAAY more pleasant if we were not subjected to this sort if thinking. 

Or you can do what I do- have a friend who’s perpetually 15 minutes late? Tell him/her the reservation is 15 minutes earlier than the actual reservation... works like a charm. (However it gets a little bit more complicated if it’s a Facebook invite- in that case, set the start time in the invite for 15 earlier than…

I love my friends too. Which is why I’d browbeat them into being on time if they were perpetually late to the point where I had to adjust what restaurants we could and couldn’t go to. Or, failing that, just tell them the reservations are for a half hour earlier than when they really are.

I think you’re right that seating arrangements are the most misunderstood bit of restaurants. Whether it’s not seating incomplete parties, not giving people larger tables, not pushing tables together, or making people wait when there are seemingly empty tables. Or even just what the host does, and what they’re there…

i can’t tell you how many times an incomplete party was seated at a large table only to never be completed & so cost me money b/c 3 or 4 people took up a table that could’ve accommodated twice that.  unless you’re going to guarantee you’re going to pay & tip for the reserved number of diners no matter how many…

We had a reservation and we would have ordered drinks and appetizers right away if we’d been seated, so why did they make us wait?

We finally got a dinner on the books last Thursday at a tapas restaurant and made a reservation for five of us

Yah, at my restaurant we do seat incomplete parties, but on a “it depends” policy. 2 people are here 15 min early but the reservation’s booked the private room for the next 2 hours? Sure. 6/8 people are here on time? Okay. 2/7 people have shown up early on a Friday night? Probably not.