The hours of operation of a restaurant are not a suggestion for when diners can come and go, contrary to popular belief, they are posted for a reason. When you see that we are closed at 11 p.m. this doesn't mean ask for another cup of coffee and continue chatting with your friends until 11:30.
Would you go into a bank five minutes before closing to set up some RRSPs? No, you wouldn't. So why would anyone go into a restaurant 10 minutes before closing and order a steak? This happens far too often.
Most times when someone walks through the door, roughly within the last 30 minutes before we close, the staff will let the potential table know that we are closing soon and that we've already done last call.
Whatever happened to Semisonic? I only actually know their song "Closing Time" but it was a really good song that I've included in several mixed CDs. But enough about late 90s alternative rock bands.
There are times when some people ignore the '30 minutes' 'til close' warning and sit down for some grub. Fair enough. We can have your food out to you in no time but it is extremely annoying. I don't know why but I always grin and bear it hoping that the table will recognize that they are staying after hours and leave me a fat tip for the inconvenience but that never happens.
It's like going into a clothing store at the very end of the night, unfolding all of the shirts and not purchasing a thing. It's creating unnecessary work for not just the server but everyone who works there.
The cooks have to put off cleaning the grills, fryers and broilers and the dishwasher has to wait for the rest of the dishes to wash. The managers have to wait longer to take the servers' cash and the servers have to wait to do their front-of-house cleaning all because a couple of selfish-jerk diners have a hankering for some (insert real name here) eats. We've been busting our asses all night and all any of us would like to do is get our chores done so we can call it quits and get the rock out.
Thinking of going to a restaurant right before they close? DON'T DO IT.
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