| I have never understood this one, so maybe the | | | | seconds they look down at the filthy table with a |
| RCs out there can help me out. You come into a | | | | look of pure revulsion, and then they look around |
| restaurant to eat. It could be a "Please Seat | | | | to make sure plenty of people are observing their |
| Yourself" coney island, or a place with a host. | | | | horrendous set of circumstances. |
| At the coney. Every table in the restaurant is | | | | Of course you are disgusted, the table is FILTHY! |
| either occupied,or dirty. As I see it, you've got | | | | Which is why you should have went with option |
| two options. You can turn around and head right | | | | number two: Wait Until Someone Cleans a Table |
| back out the door, because clearly this isn't the | | | | For You So it is Suitable For You to Sit At!! I am |
| place you want to have lunch. Or, if you're | | | | going to let you in on a huge secret. The bussers |
| starving and don't have the motivation to find | | | | have been doing this for months, even years, and |
| another place to dine, you can approach the | | | | they will continue to do it according to the |
| cashier (or a busboy, or a server, or any | | | | process, and the timetable that they always do it |
| employee you can find) and POLITELY ask if | | | | in. This may not be as speedy as you would like, |
| someone will clean a table for you- and then wait | | | | but I GUARANTEE to you that sitting at a dirty |
| until they are able to accomplish this for you. | | | | table will not cause the staff to get the table |
| At the restaurant equipped with a host. Again, | | | | clean for you any quicker, and, I hate to say this, |
| every table is occupied, with the exception of | | | | but they will probably take longer as a result of |
| two or three, and they are dirty. The host | | | | your ridiculous behaviour. |
| informs you that it will be a short wait, maybe | | | | Bottom line is this: if you're in too much of a |
| ten minutes or so, and they will have a table | | | | hurry to wait for a clean table, or if you are too |
| ready for you. Your two options here, (as I see | | | | much of a diva to wait, then avail yourself of the |
| it) are pretty much the same as above. Leave, or | | | | first option I outlined above: Leave and go find |
| wait. | | | | another restaurant. Because by seating yourself |
| But alas! There is apparently a third option, and | | | | at the dirty table you've communicated two |
| RCs choose to avail themselves of this option | | | | things to the staff: (A) you're kind of gross, aren't |
| way more often than they should. What is this | | | | you? I would never sit at a filthy table at a |
| deplorable, mind-numbingly irritating practice that | | | | restaurant! I mean, never! and (B) you are a really |
| EVERY restaurant employee hates, and EVERY | | | | difficult person who will drive the server and the |
| restaurant customer should be ashamed to do? | | | | rest of the staff insane, and then stiff the server |
| The RCs march themselves over to a dirty table | | | | when it comes to the tip. I apologize to those of |
| and sit down. They fix a traumatized and | | | | you who are offended (you've probably sat at a |
| thoroughly disgusted look on their faces, and scan | | | | dirty table a time or two in your life, haven't you? |
| the dining room frantically and angrily for the first | | | | Admit it!) but I'm just saying. |
| server that will walk past them. Every 15 to 20 | | | | |