7:00 AM Chef Mickey

[hollannc]

Hi all! Today is my 180 and nearly all of our choices were full however, I was able to find a Chef Mickey today for 7:00 am (yikes!)
Fortunately, we are staying at BLT so it will only take a few minutes to get there. My question is, will there be a line of everyone else arriving with 7:00, 7:15 reservations? I'm wondering if we can have just a few more minutes to sleep in and get the kids out the door if there will be a wait anyway. Could we arrive at 7:15?
Anyone else with this experience?
Thank you!

 

[gtpoohbear]

We had a 7am ADR there several years ago and I definitely don't remember a line at all, I think we just walked up and were seated right away. They probably stagger the ressies so that there aren't a ton of people arriving at the same time when it opens. I know the restaurant didn't really fill up for about 45 minutes, even though there were no ADRs available (I had been trying for weeks with no luck to snag a later time). Being a popular and hard-to-get ADR I would be nervous to get there too late. I believe that 15 minutes is the typical grace period, but personally I wouldn't feel comfortable pushing it that much if I could help it.

 

[NJlauren]

We had a 720 reservation and we're running late everyone else was there we got there about 725 and were seated rather quickly, one group in front of us.

I agree I think they stagger the reservations and I doubt you'll have an issue, however they can refuse to seat you or charge you the no show fee. So I would say do this at your own risk....

Is 15 minutes of sleep going to make or break your day?

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

The reason why it's staggered is because your server can only talk to one table at once. So if everyone in their section decided to show up at the same time, s/he would be "weeded" having to talk to all their tables at once. This means that while their trying to talk to table A,... table B, table C, table D, table E, etc, are all waiting and annoyed their server isn't talking to them right away. I mean it's unlikely that everyone will show up at once, and this is an extreme case. And a good host would never seat more than one table at the same time, but not all hosts are perfect, and you never know what can happen.

I guess my point is if you don't have to be 15 minutes late, then don't. You never know what kind of situation you're giving your server or other guests by doing so. I had a 12-top come in 10 minutes late and a 15-top come in 15 minutes early last Saturday night. So I basically had to take 27 orders all at once because neither party stuck to their reservation time.

You have it easy, your room is basically two feet from the restaurant whereas some people are far away. You'll be fine. Also, you'll be okay to get to a park for rope drop afterward.

 

[jmkjr72]

We had a 7 am on may 6th stayed at blt walked in there was 1 family ahead of us getting there pic taken
your not that far away all showing up late is going to do is push the person behind you later then that can put the person behind them off and so on and so on
if you don't think you can make 7 am try to change it to 715 think about the people who come behind you
our first character was at our table at 719 based on the time stamp on the pic