Originally Posted by
ESPECIALROB
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.
Yikes!
I'll often ask to move before they seat me, or even if it's a few people in the group. It may be that we're too close to other patrons, or that one group is being very loud, or just that I'd prefer a table in a different area. I don't think I've ever been given quite the resounding no you were in that situation!