Follies waitress pisses me off
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
So I'm sitting at my favorite table around 4:30 this afternoon. A table that I had occupied since the club opened at 1PM. As usual for that time of day, the club was standing room only. This waitress that I didn't comes over to me and tells me that these 3 customers had just bought my table and that I needed to move.
WTF! I told her no. That it had been my table for quite awhile. I wasn't going to budge and was waiting for her to say something like "I'll call a bouncer". I am on a first name basis with the two on duty bouncers and the manager. She didn't. She could see that she hadn't rattled me and led them to the other side of the room.
In hind sight, I wished I had asked how much they were going to pay me. Fucking bitch!
WTF! I told her no. That it had been my table for quite awhile. I wasn't going to budge and was waiting for her to say something like "I'll call a bouncer". I am on a first name basis with the two on duty bouncers and the manager. She didn't. She could see that she hadn't rattled me and led them to the other side of the room.
In hind sight, I wished I had asked how much they were going to pay me. Fucking bitch!
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Is that actually done @ Follies – i.e. someone paying for a table on the floor?
I once had a bouncer @ Tootsies in Miami ask for my table. It was on a Sat. night such as tonight with a Mayweather fight going on so the club was super super packed. I was sitting alone at a table and the bouncer said he needed the table (I subsequently saw him give it to a dude that was with two chick customers),
I kind of relented b/c I was sitting by myself and the bouncer said he’d give me a another drink free of w/e I was drinking (I was drinking a $13 Long Island) – bouncer took my table and then subsequently brought me a LI. The two dudes behind me saw what happened and invited me to sit at their table – turned out ok since they were very nice guys and I had a good time conversing w/ them and watching the fight.
Standing room only at 1PM? Shit, next time I visit Atlanta I'll stick to the south side.
I am surprised you handled the situation so gentlemanly. Should have told her SHE could buy the table for them for 10 blow jobs, IF she was hot!:)
Most clubs I know are lucky to have 4 or 5 customers at that time.
No big parties ever did show up, so it was cool. But I have heard of this happening, especially with the hightop tables along the wall at Follies. At the same time, I've sat down with strippers at tables/couches marked "reserved" and nobody said boo. So I don't get it - maybe it's enforced sporadically, and not always by the people who are in charge (like that waitress). Good call standing your ground.
Does this club actually let customers "buy" a specific table? If not, she was just gaming you, you called her on it, and she backed down. Now it's done, as long as she doesn't try it again. If they do that sort of thing, then as duo says, she was simply doing her job, and there's no point in getting irritated at her for it.
At many clubs I’ve been to – it is usually only enforced in the evenings – and may not even be on slow evenings – usually on busier evenings
“… They do have a reserved section at night where you have to buy a bottle to sit there but nothing during the day …â€
If the above is correct; I say the waitress was out of line. She was probably going to get some kind of a decent tip by getting a table for the dudes that wanted one; and she may have incorrectly thought that an older gentleman sitting by himself would be an easy target.
I get the feeling she would not have gone up to a table with a thug(s) and asked him(them).
And as shadow posted – “This waitress that I didn't comes over to me and tells me that these 3 customers had just bought my table and that I needed to move†– if that is how she went about “asking†(more like telling) the customer for the table; shows what a rude bitch she was IMO.
“… Follies is always packed on a Friday afternoon; but if you open a bottle of something the servers and bouncers would make their best attempt to open up a table for you …â€
https://www.tuscl.net/u-r.php?UID=190137
I wonder if these were the guys that wanted shadow’s table? But I guess shadow was there on a different day (Sat)
I told one of my favorite dancers and she said "If I'd been there, I would have kicked her ass".
Some times it is a good thing to be well known & liked in a club.