re: My Red Zepellin experience last night

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And if they won’t sit a table within a certain time period before closing either convey that to customers

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Someone said earlier that it’s posted at the restaurant.

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The OP said they “seated ourselves per instructions”. Perhaps the restaurant needs to make sure that sign says not only to seat yourself, but not to do so past 8:30 (although according to you, there can also be a buffer before the actual 8:30 cut off . . . They should post that too).

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Whether there’s a post that says no tables past 8:30 or not, it’s both common sense and common courtesy 30 minutes before closing, and just general non-a-hole behavior, to at least check with staff. Which OP didn’t do because he claims that he didn’t know they closed at 9. Like I said, OP could have easily handled this differently and probably got his pizza, by simply not being pushy and oblivious to closing time.

But I’m the one trying too hard lol

This apparently isnt a new issue



I never understood why people bitch about how a business operates. Just go somewhere else and dont bitch and whine. Let the businesses fail if they are truly that shitty. Big time Karen energy ITT

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But…late night restaurants are always risky and you gotta know that going in.

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Waitress avoided them for 10 minutes so she could use the 8:30 excuse.

She sucks.

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Waitress avoided them for 10 minutes so she could use the 8:30 excuse.

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This isn’t specific to Red Zeppelin , but in restaurants the problem with the “We don’t sit anyone after 8:30” excuse is that now the front of the house thinks that the closing time for the restaurant is 8:30. Anyone that comes in shortly before 8:30 is treated with an attitude of “we are about to close.”

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Because many many places don’t take new tables within a certain time window of closing. And also to not be an a-hole customer. You’re def the type to walk-in somewhere at 9:45 that closes at 10 and not see the problem.

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I’ve never been to any comparable restaurant to Red Zepplin that did this.

I worked in restaurants for years and while yes it’s a pain in the arse to have a table sit 10 minutes to close, you still serve them. It’s the nature of the business.

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This isn’t specific to Red Zeppelin , but in restaurants the problem with the “We don’t sit anyone after 8:30” excuse is that now the front of the house thinks that the closing time for the restaurant is 8:30. Anyone that comes in shortly before 8:30 is treated with an attitude of “we are about to close.”

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Exactly. I tried to point that out in a response to one of TackySweater's asinine posts. If you follow his recommendation, the restaurant actually has three "closing" times. 9 p.m., when they close the doors, 8:30 p.m., when they will no longer seat a table, and 8:20 p.m. (or 8:10 depending on the staff's whims), when you as a customer shouldn't try to sit down.

That's ridiculous.

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I'd send an email to the owner. 99% of the time he will want to know what happened.

Or the 1%

He's gonna be a dick and and dismiss you.

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you must have never ran into their owner...

Also. We are comparing apples to oranges here by comparing this to other restaurants (who mostly all close at 10pm or later).

I definitely understand restaurants that run the numbers and decide 9pm is when to officially close instead of 10pm, but the fact is you're closing a full hour earlier than everywhere else that isn't a lunch cafe/diner.

When you choose to close that early as a pizza and beer joint, you shouldn't be kicking people out 35 minutes before that posted close time on a Saturday night. 8:25pm is very much still the tail end of dinner rush in many restaurants.

Red Zep is plastered with pitcher specials and beer posters on every blank window and wall they have. This isn't Frank's on Airline turning away a rogue patron who wants breakfast at 8pm.

I have never seen a "last seating at 8:30" sign there, FWIW. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but nobody in this thread has confirmed it actually is posted anywhere and it def isn't on the website or Google info. I don't know why TS is clinging onto that as if it is truth.