re: Are you good with going in a restuarant right before it’s scheduled to close?

It takes a special kind of social pariah and narcissist to walk in these places at closing time and order.

No

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Your poor planning shouldnt infringe on others.

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wrong place for that rationale

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but extremely tacky in practice.

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frick that. If you're open, you're open. I've worked plenty jobs where staying after "closing" was a possibility and occasionally happened. It's a risk of working in a filed that serves people.

If the industry wants to put a stop to it, there should be a last seating time.

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I’d never do that to people trying to end their shift and go home

If everyone thought like you, no one would visit restaurants the last 30-60 minutes. With zero customers, they would close earlier. And cycle would repeat until out of business.

I guess you wouldn’t have to worry about the server working late anymore.

Go ask restaurant owners if they would like customers at all times of the day - every single one would say yes. You know, the people who give jobs to all these servers

If I’m by myself, I can eat in like 10 minutes. But I still wouldn’t go in there right at closing. Say if it closes at 10, I probably wouldn’t go in past like 930 or 935.

Restaurants should list the closing time of the kitchen with hours. I get not going in right before and sitting down to be served and so on especially with multiple people and alcohol involved, but if driving by a place and decide to order something togo knowing kitchen hours would be helpful.

Sometimes unwritten rules are the specific location’s rules that aren’t necessarily corporate sanctioned.

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Isn’t there some kind of unwritten rule for this? If not, there should be…

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Worked at a few restaurants in college. Admit it can be annoying, but no doubt if they change the closing time of the kitchen to 9:30, the kitchen staff would start getting pissed if you came in at 9:25. Then they move it to 9, and they get pissed if you came in at 8:55. Everyone is always trying to close their area efficiently to knock off as soon as possible so they try to get head starts and will always be pissed when someone starts messing with their head start.

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So let’s say you’re coming home from a game/concert/whatever and your group is hungry. Pass a restaurant that everyone likes and pull in. Oh wait, they close at 9pm and it’s 8:30pm.

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30 minutes before closing is just barely over the line. Depends on the type restaurant.

However, your idea that owners want people there eating after closing hours is dead wrong. They don't need 5 annoyed employees clocking out 45 minutes later just to make an extra $50 after costs.

Where a small percentage of people seem to miss the point entirely is that when the clothing store is open until 8pm, you don't come in at 7:50 to start trying on suits. You get there in time to be done by 8pm.

When a restaurant closes at 10pm, get there at very least in time to be done by 10pm.