We were celebrating my best friend's 49th birthday witha party of 22. Very close to 1:00 P.M., the hostess came up to our table and loudly proclaimed that she needed our tables because a party of 25 was coming in. We quickly sang happy birthday, cut the cake, and people began to leave soon after. A few us hung around the bar because we weren't quite finished with the bottomless mimosas. After a bit, I went to the restroom and noticed that our table for 22 had been split into several tables. That made me very angry. I waited way past 3:00 P.M. for the arrival of the party of 25 that never showed. I went to the manager to complain. He seemed genuinly concerned, but our party was already gone. There was no way to get them back into the restaurant. If they wanted us to leave earlier, it might have been better to assign more than one waiter to our table of 22. I don't whether they asked us to leave because half our party was African American (I hate to use the race card, but I am baffled as to why they would ask such a large table to leave, especially a table that was spending lots of money) or if they simply wanted to get rid of us (we weren't stupid drunk). Either way, they party was ruined. The hostess was wrong!
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