> SF restaurants are starting to charge $75 / person to cancel reservations

Someone here once cancelled Tom's dinner reservation for free

20 somethings these days with a little money in SF act like total idiots when it comes to day to day things that their parents should have taught them about.

Everyone knows that it is terrible to book multiple reservations that you have no intention of keeping just to keep your options open. Or being so flaky that you cost a restaurant serious money.

There are so many other ways these kids are clueless.

The only way to cope is to give them the consequences that their parents never did.

I have to call in tickets and tows or these clowns will park on the sidewalk if they can't find parking. The only way they learn is a hit to the pocketbook.

And if they cancel or no show then they get the $75 "fee" AND can still sit someone else at that table anyway.  So as usual it is really about GREED. 

The proper thing to do is deny future reservations if people cancel too often.  Of course that doesn't result in being able to bring in an extra $1000 a day by taking advantage of people...

anon user #3 wrote:

And if they cancel or no show then they get the $75 "fee" AND can still sit someone else at that table anyway.  So as usual it is really about GREED. 

The proper thing to do is deny future reservations if people cancel too often.  Of course that doesn't result in being able to bring in an extra $1000 a day by taking advantage of people...
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Tom Leykis wrote:

Good point.   I couldn't imagine deliberately flaking on a reservation.   It happened to me a couple of years back, when we had a reservation at THE RIB ROOM in New Orleans.  Our plane got diverted to ATLANTA, due to global warming or something.

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