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One more thing I cannot stress enough.
If someone wants a vacant table, because trust me, people are weird and have weird seating preferences, just do it. If you show any bit of hesitance, people are gonna think they're inconveniencing you, and some people don't take that very well.
Some examples people complain about:
People don't like sitting near service stations, kitchens, don't like sitting in the middle of the room, want a mother fucking boof (booth), want to face the door, want to be away from little kids, want to sit near a window (maybe not applicable since it's outside?), this table isn't big enough, but this one over here that's the same size is, table's too low, chair's too high, etc. Everything that you would never think matters, matters to some people; it does get a little ridiculous at times.
2 things you have to be aware of:
One size does not fit all. Some fat people cannot comfortably sit at some tables, especially if the chairs are fixed, i.e. booths. Sometimes it's better to guess where people would be comfortable instead of possibly embarrassing them. If they specifically ask for a booth or a table that's a tight squeeze, tell them they can have whatever they want. Some people like the feeling of the table digging into their stomach while their boobs rest on the table. That's their prerogative, but I would only try that if they specifically request.
I know you would never do this on purpose and trust me, I didn't either, but you have to be conscious of the race of the people you're seating and where you're seating them. It seems weird and obviously there's no intent to actually segregate people, but sometimes just due to how people come in you end up seating people of one race together. People actually notice that stuff and sometimes say things, which is totally ridiculous, but you'll know what I mean when I say no one knows how a restaurant works until they work in one. They won't understand you're using rotation and just making things fair for the servers.
Hopefully you don't even have to run into situations like that, but there's somethings you never think would be an issue until you have actually worked in it.
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