Originally Posted by
kingalien
Did you have the same wait staff as the couple? I can picture the hostess putting you together as it is slow and there is only one wait staff available and you were placed in the station they are covering. But yes, I agree, you have to wonder what goes through one's mind when they seat you so close to others when the whole place is empty.
Similar thing happened to me at a hotel restaurant, when it opened at 6:30 am for breakfast. Hostess brought me to a table a few inches away from another diner...the only other patron in the restaurant. I kindly asked to sit only a table or two away, within the server's station, and was refused! She was serious, and said I had to sit there.
I was so flabbergasted that I simply turned around, left the restaurant, and went to the Starbucks kiosque in the hotel. Ordered coffee and some food and found a nice small table and chair and enjoyed my breakfast.
This was the first and only time my request for a little breathing room in a nearly empty restaurant was ever refused.