Would you consider this line cutting?

[leahjade]

I guess I disagree - I think it's silly for six people to be standing inline (including strollers, toddlers etc.). We have one parent do the ordering and the other parent take the little ones back to the table. I'm not talking about using the tables for rest stops - I'd rather streamline the ordering. I hate being behind someone who has every child and toddler hemming and hawing over what to order and taking 3 times as long to place the order. I guess it's a matter of opinion and style.

 

[ms_missy66]

LOL this has turned into one of those great DVC threads...did anyone pool-hop before the park and refilled their mug from 6 yrs ago on their way to sit down at the table their family saved for the last 45 mins while you finished up a ride and got in line and ordered food LOL?

You forgot to mention that you cut in line to meet a friend waiting at the front on that ride you rode on the way to eat. After all, THAT'S what this thread is about.

 

[zus888]

Maybe because people who actually have their food and want to eat should take priority over those who do not?

I don't believe the tables in the counter service restaurants are meant to be rest stops. Their main function is to serve as someplace for people to eat. If it is busy and there are not other tables readily available it is rude to sit down and take a place away from those who already have food and need a place to sit and eat it. Jmho.

Completely agree! Although I've certainly been guilty of taking the kids to a table while my hubby waits in line and orders, I will think twice about doing it in the future. It's like the child who takes a toy just so another child can't have it, even though he's not interested in playing with it at the moment. I have been to restaurants who do not allow holding tables and it does run MUCH more efficiently. Most people just want to sit and eat their meals, and it completely holds up that process when you have people taking up a limited space and doing nothing with it.

 

[powellrj]

We just returned and my pet peeve wasn't people holding tables, it was people who were finished eating and just sitting and visiting. We had to eat in Epcot with our food on a tray on the curb because all the tables were taken by people finished eating but just visiting. When its busy, move along when you finish eating and free up tables for other.

We ate at Cosmic Rays and there were no cast members directing people at all. It was pretty much a free 4 all.

 

[ScotsMinnie]

I can understand you being frustrated if people were sitting at the table who weren't even eating at the restaurant, but if some family members are sitting waiting for the tray holders to return, why should they have to get up to give you a seat? I'm sure a lot of the table holders had strollers and small children as well, so I'm not sure why you think they should get up and give you their table?

Basically if they dont have any food to eat and others can't get a seat because they are holding them I think it is just plain rude. if you don;t want to wait in line with kids why dont you just stand to the side instead of taking up table room stopping people who have already purchased their food from having a seat from eating it.

Personally I find it rude if a restaurant is so busy. If there are plenty of empty seats then obviously no hard done. Just seems like a real disregard for others.

 

[melancholywings]

The next argument will be that people eat too slow...

 

[ScotsMinnie]

The next argument will be that people eat too slow...

or nosily - that is the worst thing isn't it!

 

[melancholywings]

or nosily - that is the worst thing isn't it!

Lol. We need a cure for that!

On our last DL trip at the Tomorrowland QS we saw a woman stand her toddler on top of the table, stripped him from the waist down and let him pee in a coke bottle. I'd like to see a little less of that on our next trip.

 

[crashbb]

or nosily - that is the worst thing isn't it!

Does that mean that they eat through their nose?

 

[ScotsMinnie]

Does that mean that they eat through their nose?

or that they cant eat their own food for wondering what everyone else is eating!!!

 

[ScotsMinnie]

Lol. We need a cure for that!

On our last DL trip at the Tomorrowland QS we saw a woman stand her toddler on top of the table, stripped him from the waist down and let him pee in a coke bottle. I'd like to see a little less of that on our next trip.

Now that is repulsive!

 

[livndisney]

Lol. We need a cure for that!

On our last DL trip at the Tomorrowland QS we saw a woman stand her toddler on top of the table, stripped him from the waist down and let him pee in a coke bottle. I'd like to see a little less of that on our next trip.

There needs to be a cure for lot's of line behaviors, public diaper changes, peeing in line

 

[tiffjoy]

On our last DL trip at the Tomorrowland QS we saw a woman stand her toddler on top of the table, stripped him from the waist down and let him pee in a coke bottle. I'd like to see a little less of that on our next trip.

She probably got yelled at by people like the ones in this thread! "No, you got out of line!! Too bad your son had to pee!!"

After reading some of these posts, that might cross my mind, too!

 

[rparmfamily]

The next argument will be that people eat too slow...

Yeah LOL.

I've gone ahead and found a table with the kids while DH went and placed our orders. Otherwise we all stand there, looking around, yelling across the room, trying to find a table that will seat us all, and then find a high chair too. Easier to just grab a table and get ready (wipe up the kids, wipe down the table, get baby in highchair and eating)

Maybe those who are complaining should plan ahead more. (kidding!!!)

 

[kaytieeldr]

So you are telling me that you've never had someone sit down at a table while the others are getting the food? Saving a table is not like cutting in line. It's exactly equal to cutting in line. The restaurant provides tables so its diners can have a safe, convenient, comfortable place to partake of the food they've purchased at that location. They got to the table first. First come, first serve. That belies the entire purpose of the restaurant, as well as the definition of the word "served" in this exact context. The person who rushes to a table to hold it twenty minutes before their food arrives is NOT being served. That's basic common sense. It's actually basic "me first, the heck with the rest of the world" nonsense Frankly, even if it was just that one lone person sitting at the table with no intention of eating but just to take a break in the air conditioning, that's their right. Is it somewhat inconsiderate to take up a 4-top table when it's just you? Yes, but again, they got their first and they have every right to sit down and rest for awhile. While I disagree any person has the 'right' to walk into a restaurant just to sit in air conditioning, the restaurant patron's right to sit at that table and eat the food they purchased at that restaurant is equal or greater. It's annoying, but if you sat down next to me while I was waiting for my family to get the food, I'd be freaking ticked, and I may just jostle you off the seat. Respectfully, since you would not yet be a customer of that restaurant but merely a potential customer, while the poster you would be jostling IS a customer - having purchased food - in the case of an unprovoked altercation, likely you would be at fault and she would be the victim. Remember, it's not your table OR her table. It belongs to Walt Disney World - and possession ISN'T 9/10 of the law. However, if I'm sitting there by myself taking a break in the air conditioning, I would have no problem with someone asking if they could sit there. Sure, you can have the other 3 seats that are left at the table. Mighty generous of you.

Frankly, diners who wish to enter a restaurant and be seated, and then have their food brought to them, should patronize the style of restaurant so designated: table service. Attempting to turn a counter service restaurant into table service by seating oneself immediately and waiting for food to be brought, especially considering the lack of consideration given to parties who have their food but nowhere to sit and eat it, is, bluntly, rude.

 

[kaytieeldr]

The air conditioned restaurants aren't just for people who are eating their hamburgers, but for anyone at Disney!

No, at Walt Disney World everyone is a Guest. That doesn't mean every inch of every building is available to every Guest every second. You're hot? Go to Hall of Presidents, or Country Bear Jamboree, or Town Hall, or Exposition Hall, or Carousel of Progress, or First Aid, or a gift shop... the restaurant tables are for diners.

make it sound like everyone should move out of your way since you are a patron and are ready to sit down NOW!!

Uh, yeah Don't YOU expect to be able to eat as soon as you have your food? So why is it unreasonable for any other diner to expect to be able to sit and eat once they have their food??? I wouldn't be surprised at all if, were a CM to get involved, theneeds of the diner with the food would supersede the future needs of a Guest with a family member who just got in line to order food.

 

[kaytieeldr]

And its just completely bizarre the post about the woman sitting down with someone at a table when they were sitting alone?? what the heck? I very commonly sit down with one child, while my DH goes and gets food for us. etc.. I think its rather strange to get yourself a whole tray of food with no plan on where to sit.

Well, my plan would be to sit at an empty table once I got through the line with my food. However, it appears my plan would be foiled by dozens of patrons sitting at tables, foodless, waiting for people FAR behind me in line to (a) get to the point where they could order food; (b) order the food; (c) pay for the food; (d) wait for the food; (e) get the food; and (f) bring the food to the tables.

Explain to me again how that makes sense?

 

[kaytieeldr]

That is still incredibly rude. If you came and plopped yourself down next to me after I explained that the chair was reserved for my husband whom I was sitting with, then you would be rude. Whether the chair was empty is irrelevant. Just because you are "ready to eat" and "you don't smell" doesn't mean that trumps common decency, and manners. please.

Conversely, how is holding a table when you see people walking around and around with trays of food but nowhere to sit, while your food may be fifteen, twenty, or more minutes away, in ANY way a display of common decency and manners? And don't say you don't 'see' them . If that were true, if you didn't think there might be a possibility of no empty tables when you were ready to eat - you wouldn't have grabbed an empty table as soon as you walked into the restaurant, would you?

 

[kaytieeldr]

I guess I disagree - I think it's silly for six people to be standing inline (including strollers, toddlers etc.). We have one parent do the ordering and the other parent take the little ones back to the table. I'm not talking about using the tables for rest stops - I'd rather streamline the ordering. I hate being behind someone who has every child and toddler hemming and hawing over what to order and taking 3 times as long to place the order. I guess it's a matter of opinion and style.

Okay, then don't all stand in line. Stand off to the side. I haven't been in Pecos Bill's lately, although I understand there is room to wait - but there's plenty of free space in Cosmic Ray's.
You're don't mean it's silly to have six people wait in line, but that it makes perfect sense to have diners with food unable to find tables at which to sit and eat because the tables are all taken by diners waiting for food, do you?

 

[MomtoEmIs&Ow]

Then on Buzz Lightyear, we were cruising up the fastpass line. A woman and her two children hops out of the longer 50 minute line, comes up to the front of the FP, makes this big show about now having any and then, right in front of the CM, climbs back over into the general line...20 minutes or more ahead of where she started two seconds prior.

I am surprised that she did not get an ear full!! THat is like people who drive up on the 'curb' to get past others in a traffic jam