Your Hostess Hates You Because... You Sat Yourself

When you invite someone over to your home, you expect them to be comfortable but as a guest in your home, they should allow you to be hospitable.

That's sort of how a restaurant works, we welcome every guest, but please, allow me to get the door for you, allow me to set you and your party up with the perfect table.

Scenario:
The 'This Restaurant' has just opened for the day and there are only a few sections available for service, a guest walks in through one of the alternate entrances/exits and seats themselves with 3 other people.

Storyline:
Hostess 2: Is Table 84 open?
Hostess 1: No, why?
Hostess 2: Because there's like 4 people sitting there, they don't have menus or anything

Hostess 1's face

Hostess 1: You have to get them up or go tell them something.
Hostess 2: *walks over to the table* Hi, did you guys seat yourselves?
Guest 1: Yeah, we've been here for about 20 minutes and haven't seen a waiter at all
Hostess 2: I'm very sorry about that but the only reason why you haven't been waited on is because this section is closed
Guest 1: So you're telling me all these people walked passed us and didn't tell us we're sitting in a closed section?
Hostess 2: I'm very sorry about this, I can move you to a section that's open and get you some menus so you can get started.
Guest 1: No, we're not moving anywhere, we'd like to stay here.
Hostess 2: No problem....

This Is Why Your Hostess Hates You:
When a restaurant has just opened, you can't expect for every section to be open unless it's a very small mom-and-pop restaurant or if it's a buffet. When you're eating at a full service restaurant, you must wait to be seated and they do this for a reason; the servers will make more money and the flow of the restaurant is organized. Each party that waits to be seated is spread out amongst multiple servers and people get to sit where they want to sit-if you wait to be seated that is. In this story, our 'self-seaters' just happened to sit in a closed section and refused to move to a serviced section, this means that a server who 's probably already handling 4 tables, has to take on 5 tables or there is a server who has to be called in earlier. Your hostess won't hate you if you don't treat her like decoration.

Signed,
The [UN]Happy Hostess