JanS
lintle…I really don’t care what an inconvenience this might have caused the Alki Cafe. The owner was wayyyyy out of bounds on this. There is NO excuse for rude behavior when it’s your business. None whatsoever. He could have handled this much differently, but chose th low road. This woman’s circumstances aside, if it had happened to me, to you, or to any Joe Blow off the street, I’d feel the same way. Yes, I empathize with her. And it was beyond her control who showed up with whom.
The reasoning that they weren’t prepared for a large group doesn’t cut it with me. They’re a restaurant…they have a freezer, and a well equipped kitchen. And think of the business that they would have generated, how big their bill would have been, how great the word of mouth at being graciously accomodated would have been. But…they’re a popular place, so you don’t count, and the owner gets to cop a ‘tude because there’ll always be more business? Give me a break…he won’t have my business. The guy was a jerk !