I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Today I noticed 2 five top reservations with the same last name. 

I knew what they were up to but I also knew that there was a message on our reservation system letting people know the result of trying this.

And what would you know I was right.

The first table arrives, checks in and lets us know they’ll be six.  They also ask to sit together and I let them know that this can’t be facilitated.  They sit without incident.

The second table arrives, checks in and lets us know that they’ll be six also.  The woman explains that our reservation system would only allow for 5.  I say yes, but you’ve arrived for 6.  She says, yes, because it wouldn’t let us make a reservation for 6. 

I then explain that they aren’t really five or six but 12 instead, and she very excitedly says yes.

Ugh.

However, they sat down.  They ate dinner.   They didn’t put the 6 year olds at one table and the adults at another table  (By the way, I will no longer allow this.  Our restaurant policy is that underage minors must be accompanied by one adult to dine at a table).  This keeps a server who draws the short straw from having four cokes and four cheeseburgers, while mommy and daddy share a bottle of wine and a Wagyu steak. 

However, the point of all of this, is I actually made sure I was at the door when they arrived just in case drama ensued.  But they were all so nice.  They ate dinner at their appropriate tables and all was good.