Tonight at 8:00 a bunch people walk in.

A woman walks up and says we are the Smith party of 10.

I say we don’t have a Smith party of 10.

She explains oh, yes, we made two 5 top reservations.

Ugh.

I explain that unfortunately they can’t sit together. In fact we have them at 2 separate tables, in two private rooms.

This starts chaos on their part.

This is my favorite thing that people do.

Often when we say no, the party will wander into the dining room and then come back to explain how we can make it work.

Tonight’s party did that.

Two women wander in.

They are back in 90 seconds to explain that they can sit in one of the rooms.

I explain that they cap out at 8.

They wonder back in.

Come back and say they’ll make it work.

I say no.

I finally send them in to be seated at their two tables and 90 seconds later a man appears and wants to know why they can’t just squish and I say because it’s not fair to the server whose been waiting on a five top all night.

He say oh. Okay.

They sit at two separate tables.

The host as she’s seating them says, next time just call the restaurant we have large rooms we could have put you in but unfortunately they are just not available tonight.

I don’t have a lot of patience who think they are getting one over on us.

The app says call for parties over 6.

The website says call for parties over 6.

So call. For parties over 6.