Ohhhhhh the woes of taking reservations this week.

Let’s see.

We had a group of six make three two top reservations at the bar because they couldn’t get a six top reservation.

They called to ask to sit together, and I explained that I couldn’t make that happen but I I could get them a table for six. The lady exclaims, that’s what we wanted all along.

Then you should have called the restaurant as instructed.

We had another woman show up at 5:15 for a 5:15 reservation then explained that they had a 7:30 reservation as well but they couldn’t figure out how to cancel it.

We had a woman walk in at 5:30 to get sat. Then she came back up to cancel her 7:00 reservation.

We had a couple show up for bar reservations that insisted they had a reservation for a booth. They did not.

I had a man call for a party of 10 in June get angry because he couldn’t get 6:30. He had waited and called and how the hell were we already booked.

I never explain that we aren’t booked we just won’t take a large party at 6:30. He yelled at me for a good ten minutes.

Had a woman call who has a 16 top reservation in July. I explain that anything over 10 is a special menu and that if she emailed me I’d send her a proposal.

She complained that she got a reservation for 16 last summer. Which she did not. The largest reservation we took last summer was 12.

She complained that we didn’t have a special menu last summer. I explain it’s a new policy for the summer.

She then asks if she can just get 4 four top reservations. I explain that I can’t take those reservations for another month and they be for 5:00, 5:15, 5:30, and 6:00. And they would not be seated together.

She finally hung up on me.

I was reading through reservations for next month and a person booked a 5 top then put in the notes that they are actually 10 people.

Seriously. Who does this?

It’s one thing to be 5 but 10? But what will they do when they show up and I don’t have a table for 10?

That’s all.

It’s been a good 24 hours for reservations.