• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Let others enjoy their meal at peace. Asking someone to “hurry up” is not a favour and extremely rude.

    Seating is a limited public resource shared by all. It’s really not that unreasonable if the restaurant is being slammed and there’s no tables available.

    At the end of the day, if you know the restaurant is so busy and table seating is a huge problem why not get in and get out quickly, and share the resource with your fellow citizens, and make everyone’s day a little better.

    There’s so much anger and hate going on right now, we really could try to be a little understanding with each other and tamping that hate down.

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      9 months ago

      A restaurant is a private business and their seating is private, I don’t believe any restaurant would be happy with some random trying to hurry on their customers.

      If a customer is taking excessive time it would be up to the staff to request them to move on.

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        9 months ago

        A restaurant is a private business and their seating is private, I don’t believe any restaurant would be happy with some random trying to hurry on their customers.

        If a customer is taking excessive time it would be up to the staff to request them to move on.

        Totally depends on the venue, and how much control the restaurant staff has on the seating, versus if people come in and manage their own seating.

        What I took from the original tweet was it’s the latter, and not the former.

        What you are describing is for the former.

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      9 months ago

      At the end of the day, if you know the restaurant is so busy and table seating is a huge problem…

      … why not make plans with a backup restaurant in mind if you’re meeting up with friends, just in case it’s full already like it often is?

      What if every other table was already occupied by people meeting friends. They’re all entitled to be there. This lady only bullied OP and told him to hurry up because he was there alone. And what you’re saying is that if you’re alone, you’re not really entitled to use shared resources beyond the absolute minimum necessary?

      You’re calling for mutual understanding while supporting the position of someone who demonstrably has none as she goes around ordering people to leave public spaces becauss they think they’re more important. ‘Mutual understanding’ is revoked when it’s clear the other party only wants to abuse it.