Tom is a friend of mine and because of this, I see the plight from the restaurant side of the equation. I'd like to garner opinions on this please:
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Yep as a customer i have no problem committing to a deposit.
How far up your own arses do you have to be to behave like this? Yes I’d be happy to pay a deposit.
Chef's table booking should have a substantial deposit / hold on c/card. It's surely $60 pp , so 50% or $200 hold on the card.
Agreed, it's a one off, other tables can be filled, but there is only one chefs table.
Hold on card is a thing, I'd forgotten about that.
For a special chefs table, I have always seen some kind of ticket price, unless it was a private social club and they pay dues.
Yeh, that seems reasonable, there can only ever be one chefs table, so prepaying for it, even if you're not charging a deposit for others would be reasonable.
Also I would have started giving the table away to other customers at 8:30pm.