It surprises me that I'm surprised, but people are so rude sometimes! Where did courtesy go? Let me illustrate.
I went out to dinner tonight with friend M. (This is a different M. from Tuesday's lunch) at a little restaurant in Haarlem, where M. goes regularly. The food was good, the price was very reasonable, and it was very busy.
We'd finished our dinner, had our coffee, and we were just enjoying our company and conversation, when a man (the manager, I suppose) came to our table and demanded, not asked, whether we needed anything else. We looked at each other and said that we were fine for now. Five minutes later, a waitress brought us the bill. Which we had not yet asked for. Obviously we were holding a table that they wanted for someone else, and they wanted us out. How rude is that? Needless to say, we won't be eating there again.
Now I don't like to state full names of people or venues on this blog - it is a public site, after all, but in this case I have no qualms about letting you all know which restaurant to avoid. So here's the website:
www.hetpakhuis.org/haarlem/
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I really hate when that happens!
ReplyDeleteTalk about bad manners and bad business. In the words of my brother... they should be quartered and shot!
No, just boycotted indefinately will do for me...
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have minded so much if they'd come to the table and asked if we would be willing to continue our evening at the bar so they could give the table to someone else. Instead, they forced us out and lost our business!