Platero y tú sang in behind the bar of a bar that Gorka Limotxo, who works as a waiter, after five years came to the conclusion: the customer is always wrong. And it may be that this 90’s myth of Basque rock & roll is still valid.
Especially as a result of one of the last episodes that have been registered on Twitter at the cost of a ugly habit of many diners: the no-show. It is not a novelty, but the fact of not showing up at the restaurant that has been reserved is still very much alive.
Even more so when we talk about specially marked dates such as Easter and especially bloody moments when huge tables are also reserved. It is what has happened in the restaurant A Centoleiraa seafood restaurant in the Pontevedra town of Bueu, in the heart of the Rías Baixas.
After reserving for 11 people, the interfect booking party, a certain Ángela, limited herself to saying “sorry, I forgot” when they phoned her from the restaurant to know the reason for his act of disappearance.
With a certain backlash, from the restaurant’s Instagram account, the response to Ángela was posted thanking her. Especially because of her tactlessness and also having had the hint of decency to pick up the phone to answer, even with a response as humorous as “sorry, I forgot”.
The problem is that there are thousands of Ángelas and they are distributed throughout Spain, since the diner usually escape from places that force you to leave signs or no-show bonds. Even with the nerve to book in several restaurants at the same time and opt for the one that convinces them the most at the last minute.
Something frequent and especially cruel if, above all, it is done with large tables and on designated dates such as Holy Week, a time of great influx of public in certain areas of Spain and where these strong spring days allow us to gain strength to endure the rest of the month.
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Lack of education and consideration which, moreover, is not usually reciprocal in other types of establishments, let’s say hotels, where reservations are very well stipulated and where if you don’t show up, you end up paying for the stay or part of it and which seems like the future for many hoteliers who They don’t want to see how their tables are hung and empty when an Angela shows up.
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