No, i mean you weren’t there, but…

This family of three order at the register next to us. My (pregnant) wife and I put in our order at the same time as them, and turned around to go find a table. I don’t know what these three were doing in the mean time. As we walked, a guy looked at me and said, “do yall need a table? We’re leaving” so me and my wife sat down.

A little bit later the employee walks up with those three and says, “these people put in their order before you so you need to give them your table.”

I’ve never been anywhere where it was my job to make sure everyone was seated in the order they placed their orders. I don’t even know if they placed their order before us (they were in line before us, but I’m not sure who swiped their card first).

But literally everywhere I’ve ever eaten before that has open seating is just that: open. First come first serve. If you want a different policy, you can absolutely seat people with a host system or even a reservation system. It isn’t like my pregnant wife and I raced these people to get the empty table.

I just think it’s appalling to tell a pregnant woman she has to give up her table when she sat down first.