Comments on: Booths from Hell

By: GG

GG — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:33:06 +0000

I never even thought people would not fit into a booth.
Great blog, nice posts. I’m catching up with the archives.
gg

By: Restaurant Gal

Restaurant Gal — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:51:39 +0000

Hi Andrew–I think what usually happens is this: A person of average build who fits in the booth doesn’t even realize the problem until an overweight person tries to sit down as well. Thus, the woman’s daughter probably didn’t realize how close that gap was until it was too late. Happily, we don’t have that problem in our other booths upstairs. And being the ace maitre ‘d that I am, I am getting better every day at making sure no one has a problem in “those” booths.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:45:45 +0000

The lady’s daughter should know if the booth is going to be a problem, and alert the server to it. The thing that bothers me is restaurants with arms on the chairs when so many North Americans are overweight. That doesn’t make sense because it loses them business.

By: erin

erin — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:27:19 +0000

My restaurant has the same problem…just one of our booths is a “normal people” sized one, but I’ve had to deal with the same stuff. Awkward!