On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:31:33 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:
>
> Many restaurants that take reservations do want a contact number, so
> they could certainly send a text message. As for 10 min early, hell no,
> I arrive +/- 1 min from my reservation time and expect my party to be
> seated within 2 or 3 min, not 10.

My 10 minute window was for the restaurant to wait for a tardy party
to arrive. It could easily be extended to 15 minutes (or longer),
depending on how slammed they are at the time.

Saving tables for large groups is stupid when it's busy. We went to a
restaurant *early* only to find they had no open tables because it had
just rained and their patio wasn't seating people. Hubby did a quick
walk through the restaurant and saw they had a table reserved for the
same size as our party. He asked what time the reservation was for -
it was an hour into the future, so he asked them to seat us there.
The bargain was that we'd be out by the reservation time, which wasn't
hard to do with two 3 YOs and a 10 month old. We said YES and we were
out of there well under the wire.


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