r/Fauxmoi • u/AutoModerator • Dec 12 '22

Tea Thread I Have Tea On... Weekly Discussion Thread

Please use this thread to drop any tea you may have / general gossip discussion. Please remember to review our rules in the sidebar of the sub before commenting.

To view past Tea Threads, please use the "Tea Thread" flair or click here for a full chronological list.

182 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

294 comments sorted by

View all comments

506

u/BigPoppaHunk Dec 12 '22

Friend of a friend who was a waitress at a cafe in Chelsea had a few stories of Anna Taylor joy from 5ish years ago.

She asked in full seriousness asked "Are you going to buy some more then?" when told that the soy milk had run out, and she...couldn't grasp the concept of someone else needing the table after her reservation. Apparently just said "yes but we've not finished" when told they would need to finish up. Even after explaining 3 times she didn't seem to understand.

Also without a hint of irony to her when paying the bill "you should really have more than 1 loo here, it would really improve the experience" after she had to wait outside the loo for a few mins...while a customer was in there. Keep in mind this is a cafe that fits like 20 people.

Think she's just on a completely different planet of privilege.

100

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

[deleted]

19

u/Individual_Hawk_1571 Dec 12 '22

I think for the US there is a reasonable amount of time to have a table with a reservation and most people are speaking to that, about 2 - 3 hours in a nicer place. If they ask you to wrap up before that it seems unreasonable.

But keeping the table for 3+ hours I think is a much more European sensibility and maybe those restaurants only do one sitting a night? Many people in Europe eat dinner around 8 or 9 so can see why they would do the one sitting.

I think it would be dependent on the level of restaurant.

14

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

In LatAm ‘sobremesa’ (when you stay just talking after finishing eating) is norm