Where should we eat?*

People shouldn’t come to a nice restaurant if…

1. They have a family with two adults and over four younger children. Unless they know how to behave, which most of the time they don’t. Actually, no children should come if they are going to misbehave. It distracts other customers and makes them mad.
2. They, as a couple, are fighting--servers feel awkward.
   
3. They are catching up with friends and plan on staying for hours—servers only get a certain number of tables so when people sit there for hours, we are losing an opportunity for more tips from people who could eat at the table later.
4. They are a table of 10 or more high school students—usually they are way too demanding and pay with change.
5. They plan on paying with change—If customers want to get rid of it, why do they think we want it to carry around?
6. They aren’t going to eat. Rather, they are going to talk with friends—order food to go.
7. They don’t want to wait to be seated—we can’t help it if there’s a wait, and when they sit down we can’t get their food any faster because they have been waiting. Other people have been waiting, too.
   
8. They just want to drink, chat, and maybe have an appetizer—sit at the bar. These customers are taking up our tables that will actually eat and tip.
9. They are very picky about how their food is done and always send it back—it’s not our fault if the cooks mess up a nearly impossible order.

10. They are in a bad mood—they pass it on to us, and we don’t want to be serving them any more than they want us to be.