"My family all met up here for drinks on a Saturday afternoon. Everyone (except me, DD) bought multiple beers, kids had fun running around and we even got to watch a wedding.
The part that ruined it, an employee coming over and asked us to move because we were seated in a waitress’ section and they wanted to seat there.
That’s fine, if we weren’t paying customers.
My family spent over $100 on drinks alone in the hour or so we were there, not once did that server come over and offer to grab us drinks, we just kept going up to the bar.
If that is a waiter’s section, they should have came over and said “Hi my name is so and so, this is my section, so if there’s anything I can grab for you let me know!” We would have been happy to order any drinks via a server.
When the employee came over and asked this of us, we were literally 5 min or less from leaving, and one of my family members said “oh yeah man, we’re almost done (gestures to what’s left of the drinks) can we finish up?” And the employee said “can you like move over there and do it?” To which we just reiterated “let us just finish our drinks and you can have the tables.”
We went to dinner afterward where everyone remarked that they really enjoyed their drinks and the atmosphere until that employee came along. The situation could have been handled a lot better. Maybe a server should have just been grabbing drinks for us all along rather than everyone going up to the bar, that’s something in the operation that needs to be evaluated. If you want to run like a restaurant with a hostess station and all, then operate like a restaurant with the server coming over to greet their tables and take some drink orders and let them know what’s up. If we treated it like a brewery with open seating and got it wrong, send a server to tell us what’s up “hey guys this is my section I’ll be taking care of you” but don’t send and employee to kick us out of tables for that area to be sat, it was already seated and should have been treated as such.
The drinks were great! Atmosphere was amazing, it was fun until the end."