Seating question for a friend

[hoffman1]

I have a friend going with a group of people. She was wondering if part of the party arrives at the restaurant will they seat you or wait for the full party to be present?

 

[madalex]

I think the policy is that everyone must be there before they will seat you, but it varies depending upon time of day and how crowded the restaurant is.

 

[Pumbaa_]

It may also depend on the restaurant too

 

[Jrabbit910]

I am pretty sure it depends on the restaurant....2005 we were in Alfredos and they didnt sit the family because they were short two... but a family was seated at Chef Mickeys w/ only a few and there was more people meeting them...

 

[mareed]

My experience at many different WDW restaurants is that when you check in they ask "Is your entire party here?". If not, they don't even put you in the queue for a table and ask you to let them know when everyone is there. I'm sure it's because the restaurants are just too busy to have a table with only part of a party sitting there not ordering because they're waiting for others to arrive (finish riding a ride, etc.)

So my experience is that they will not seat you until the entire party arrives.

 

[eeyoreiscool]

It has been our experience that you need to have the entire party there before you will be seated. We have had to wait a few times or reduce the number of people before we would be seated.

 

[daisyduck123]

We spent 9 days in WDW with both my parents & DH's...altogether we were a group of 8.

We had a TS meal every evening & one breakfast.

We were told time & time again that they would not seat us until our entire party was there...no exceptions.