Bookings

The woman booked a table for 10 at 7pm, Thursday, at the hip Bentley Bar and Restaurant in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

Book this table, fail to show up, fork out. Pic: Jeff Darmanin

Owner Nick Hildebrand had to turn away four couples trying their spontaneous luck because his 50-seater was fully booked, but by 7.45pm, that big table still hadn’t arrived so he called them and was told they were on the way.

It sat empty for another 30 minutes, so he called again but this time, she didn’t answer. They never arrived.

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  • john says:

    11:50am | 30/04/12

    In a few words , the people who don’t respect anything in life are the people who fuss about putting deposits on there bookings,and are freely abusing other systems along the way . Read more »

  • Jane says:

    01:19pm | 04/02/12

    Everyone is different - if you don’t like “wanly” restaurants don’t bloody go and don’t bitch about people that do or people that run them. Stay in your cheap restaurants and enjoy or better still if you have no respect for the industry don’t eat don’t eat out at all… Read more »

 

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