It was only eight weeks ago that we were trying to eat a dinner out but had a loud live musician to contend with.
Tonight, the Family Three went out to the Keg to celebrate Tammy's graduation. We got there nice and early because the Keg doesn't take reservations on a Friday, and were pleased to be seated in a large area with about twenty-four empty tables and nobody else there. Delightful!
And then, about five minutes later, the hostess brought another party into the same section... and seated them right beside us! I could barely grasp that someone would actually do that, as there were so many other empty tables to choose from, almost none of which were within two feet of us like that, when another party was delivered to the table on the other side of us! I started thinking the place must be filling up suddenly, but no, that was it for the flood of new arrivals... just the three parties, all clustered together in a part of the restaurant big enough to accommodate nearly ten times that many people.
While I was processing all of this, and struggling to hear what Vicki and Tammy were saying over the din of the other two groups, one of the men took a call on his cell phone and proceeded to start a lengthy conversation at a volume appropriate for a bar.
That's when I asked the waitress if it was normal to cluster people together in one area when there was all kinds of unused space, and would it be rude of us to ask to move? She was very apologetic and indicated that she'd thought that the seating arrangement was strange, too. She sweetly moved us to a new table, after which the noise level dropped significantly and we had a lovely dinner.
We're guessing the hostess was new on the job. At least I hope she was.
Is dining out always this much work these days?
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