One table kept moving around the restaurant and then got mad that I “couldn’t find them”
I had a table of four come in during a pretty busy dinner shift. I sat them, took their drink order, everything normal.
When I came back with the drinks, they were gone. I eventually spotted them at another empty table across the room because they decided they liked that one better. Fine, whatever, I moved their stuff in the system and kept going.
About fifteen minutes later I went to check on them and they had moved again. This time they were sitting near the windows.
Nobody told me, nobody told the host, they just picked up their drinks and migrated. I finally caught up with them and one guy laughed and said they were “trying out the best spots.”
At that point I specifically asked them to please let someone know if they moved again because I had other tables and needed to know where they were.
Guess what happened. They moved a third time while I was running food.
When I finally found them, one woman was visibly annoyed and said, “We’ve been waiting forever, do you keep forgetting about us?”
I just kind of stared at her for a second because... you are literally making yourselves disappear.
They ended up complaining that service was slow, and I spent the rest of the shift wondering how I was supposed to track a roaming table like wildlife.