In summary, our baby shower party of 12 were ran out of the restaurant in the middle of eating dinner and were being threatened and insulted by our waitress. Extremely RUDE staff. Insinuating we were not going to pay for our bill. (TOTALLY FALSE! we bought whole pies, wine, sandwiches, sides, cakes, etc)

Here is our story:

We asked the owner of Anna's, regarding our circumstances (baby shower and individual checks), if it were okay to host a party of 10-15. No charges for space or minimum check requirements were established with the owner, so we agreed to set the reservation for today (Sunday, April 21st 6PM).

Our waitress brought out our orders and rushed us out, immediately handing us our checks. She demanded that we leave before the cops were called. We did not understand why, for we were in the middle of eating and in the middle of a surprise sex baby shower dinner. She insisted that we had a minimum check requirement for $100 that was unmet and that she had received word that we were not going to pay our checks or tip our waitresses. This is ultimately false, for we CHOSE ANNA's specifically for dinner instead of hosting it at one of our homes because we heard the food was amazing and planned to indulge as paying customers. Also, we manually added up all of our checks and it came out to OVER $115. After we told her this, she then said that we were being kicked out because not all of us were ordering. Two guests left after 15 minutes because they had to go to work, every one else ordered dinner, and the only person who did not order food, ordered a glass of wine with the intention of having more than one glass. Our waitress then proceeded to tell us that, "we are not a banquet service" and that they booked the place and allowed us in their establishment "under false pretenses".

We have never been more humiliated in our lives. Especially in celebrating something as beautiful as a baby-shower, the gift of life.

I feel that the Better Business Bureau should be aware that ANNA's Italian Restaurant on Big Bethel gave me the most unprofessional and degrading service I've ever experienced in my 24 years living in Hampton, VA.

I was born and raised here and have a fair amount of food service and specialty food business experience under my belt. I acquired this experience before during and after pursing my degree at Virginia Tech and am completely appalled at the way we were treated.

We all personally plan to speak with the owner in regards to our horrible experience in hopes that he/she performs the corrective measures necessary to ensure that this never happens again to any of their guests.""