Cafe 615 — Restaurant in Gretna

After so many years of enjoyment at this icon restaurant, we were asked to vacate a table before the last of the party of five was finished eating!!!

Again, AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF ENJOYMENT AT THIS ICON RESTAURANT, where we have celebrated many things, finished off meetings with food and fun, bring all out of towners to enjoy, etc. (My spouse was there for the third time that week, we live in Mandeville.) I have to address the unbelievable situation that happened to us on 2/8/18 @ 2:24 Chk 1805 Tb1 12/1 Gst 5 24 Randi B.....

The whole party was not finished eating when the waitress came and as she was picking up dishes she informed me that we needed to leave the table because a party had been waiting on that table for 35 minutes...that we could set at the bar or on one of the benches?

Immediately most of us started getting up and I noted that one in our party was not finished eating. As we were walking away from the table, I was STUNNED....THERE WERE NUMBEROUS TABLES THAT WERE VACANT; ONLY SIX OR SEVEN TABLES WERE OCCUPIED. Note: we were seated at that table by the staff when we arrived.

Plus we just got up without thinking about the fact that we had not been there very long and all had not finished...he ordered dessert.

We then went to the waiting area by the hostess. The last one of our party to join us after he finished his food and paid the bill.....immediately ASK WHAT HAD JUST HAPPENED; AS HE LEFT THE TABLE HE NOTED THAT SEVERAL TABLES IN OUR LOCATION WERE AVAILABLE.???

After we as a group discussed this in the waiting area; I went back to the waitress and asked why we were asked to vacate the table?

PLEASE NOTE: We had not been there a long time....we ordered and we ate...no lingering was happening...and AGAIN THERE WERE NUMBEROUS TABLES AVAILABLE ALL AROUND US IN THE MAIN DINING AREA????

I asked waitress "why were we asked to leave and especially since there are so many other tables available???" She answered with random statements: as follows: "Closing a section" Note: People were now seated at our vacated table. ??? "The other people really wanted that table". ????? "The assistant manager said it was o.k." ???? "I'm sorry". ????

I kept standing there and asking the question - why were we asked to leave that table and waitress kept repeating all of the above. I realized that was a dead end to a truthful answer...so I left.

I walked past the hostess and then backed up to ask her if that was the manager at the cash register behind the bar and she said no that was the bartender and then lowered her head as though she did not want me to ask her anything else.

There were two men that witnessed my talking to the waitress...they were connected to the restaurant and were seemingly on a break sitting in the private dining area across from the waitress station. One had come out to were my group was seated as we were talking before I went back to talk to the waitress...said nothing.....just stood there for a moment and walked away.???

I know that nothing was done by my group for us to be asked to leave!!!!

The table was immediately taken over by a younger group of people about the age of the waitress. ????????

A. J. & Liz Burmaster Anna Laura Warren Melvin...

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