We are a restaurant in the northeast. It gets cold here.

We have a patio. It gets cold out there.

And.

Long before I started the owner made the decision not to have heaters. I agree with him 1,00000000%.

For many reasons.

First.

It’s expensive. Our patio is huge. We’d have to have 20 heaters to be useful.

It’s a a full time job keeping them full and exchanged. Someone has to do this.

They are never in the right place so you turn your back and some aggressive dude is moving one across the patio.

Someone is cold. The table next to them is hot. So your server who should be taking an order, running food, getting a check spends 20 minutes trying to make everyone happy.

You have to have a place to store these 20 heaters when winter finally arrives.

Seriously it’s a pain in the ass.

And every day someone marches up to the host stand to tell me how shameful it is that we expect people to sit out there with no heat.

Fun fact. We don’t expect you to sit outside. You chose to sit out there. You could have chosen an indoor reservation but you did not.

Also. Our business. Our choice on how to spend our money.

Fun fact: It’s Maine. It’s fucking cold 11.5 months a year. Wear a coat. Bring a blanket. A hat. Gloves.

But don’t become indignant.

And.

When you get here and realize there are no heaters—leave.

We don’t mind. People do it all the time.

That’s all!