{"id":1061,"date":"2022-08-31T20:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:14:59","slug":"please-wait-to-be-seated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/please-wait-to-be-seated\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Wait To Be Seated&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1062 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/v4-460px-Be-a-Great-Host-or-Hostess-in-a-Restaurant-Step-1-Version-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/v4-460px-Be-a-Great-Host-or-Hostess-in-a-Restaurant-Step-1-Version-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/v4-460px-Be-a-Great-Host-or-Hostess-in-a-Restaurant-Step-1-Version-2.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You and your sweetie are out for an evening of fine dining.\u00a0 The work day is over and you want to relax and take it easy and let someone wait on you.\u00a0 Kick off your shoes without actually kicking off your shoes.\u00a0 As the Host\/Hostess leads you to the table they have selected for you, and it is not to your liking, what do you do?\u00a0 Do you take whatever is offered and say nothing, or do you speak up and ask for an alternate table?\u00a0 Is it okay to tell a restaurant hostess you would rather sit somewhere else other than where they want to place you?<\/p>\n<p>This is a semi-important subject to me, and I actually have my own set of \u201crules\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The behind-the-scenes \u201crotation\u201d is none of my concern. As the customer I\u2019m there to enjoy my experience. That\u2019s why I\u2019m paying extra money to eat out rather than stay home. Work it out behind the scenes. That being said\u2026<\/li>\n<li>I will always be polite in my request.<\/li>\n<li>I will always try to state my preference up front right when we walk in, whenever possible.\u00a0 The exception being as stated in the beginning, when I&#8217;m being led to a dissatisfactory table.<\/li>\n<li>I will never\u2026 ever\u2026 request a room or separate section that is obviously closed.<\/li>\n<li>If the place is super busy I might say something like, \u201cI\u2019d like a booth, if possible.\u201d Emphasis on the \u201c\u2026if possible\u201d. I have preferences but I try to be reasonable, too.<\/li>\n<li>Once I have accepted the seat, it would take a huge extraordinary circumstances for me to request to move. It\u2019s been done, but very rare.<\/li>\n<li>If just the two of us, or with another couple I generally prefer booths. But if I\u2019m in a larger party I hate when they try to stuff us all into a \u201clong booth\u201d. Eff that, that\u2019s extremely uncomfortable, then I want a table.<\/li>\n<li>The only reason I need is I have preferences. I don\u2019t have to justify it beyond that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, yes, it is perfectly acceptable to override their seating chart and request something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You and your sweetie are out for an evening of fine dining.\u00a0 The work day is over and you want to relax and take it easy and let someone wait on you.\u00a0 Kick off your shoes without actually kicking off your shoes.\u00a0 As the Host\/Hostess leads you to the table they have selected for you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-tipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}