# Restaurant Reservation--Seating one hour late?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-reservation-seating-one-hour-late/973310>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [October 16, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-reservation-seating-one-hour-late/973310 "2022-10-16T00:12:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-reservation-seating-one-hour-late/973310/81 "2022-10-28T04:47:09Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> One thing I love about dining in the Caribbean, especially St Martin, is that you’re never presented with your check, you have to specifically request it. Sitting there, gazing at the sea, it’s easy to then order another bottle of wine. Two hour dinners are the norm.

> [@pulykamell](#):
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> It always made me feel rushed, like “get the hell out of this place; I need to turn this table over.”

Pure, shrieking economics in expensive urban areas - this is an [enlightening article](https://www.restaurantmanifesto.com/turning-tables/) on the subject. Also do try and check out [the article they linked to](https://thebolditalic.com/why-sf-restaurants-are-suffocating-795392211c66) about the difficulty of paying and keeping decent restaurant staff in a place like SF. And note that was PRE-pandemic - I’m sure it is even worse now. It’s probable places in the Caribbean don’t face the same intense rents and labor costs that make rapid table turning pressure virtually universal in cities like SF.

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