Little Depot Diner

My experience was definitely not a good one. I deliver food for uber eats/grubhub etc. and have previously picked up orders from this restaurant with no issues whatsoever. However, during this one experience I had the displeasure of dealing with an INCREDIBLY RUDE member of the staff. Upon entering the restaurant this person asked -“uber?”, after all I told him that I was, he told me that the food wasn’t ready yet and to wait “over there”. To give you an idea of the layout if you haven’t been - “over there” was a small cubicle area near the entrance door, the size of a very small closet. Keeping in mind this is a old fashioned type diner with bar stool seating, there where about a dozen empty open stools, and only four customers in the restaurant. Since there was PLENTY of seating I asked if it would be okay if I sat while I waited. I have previously done this at this SAME establishment with no one batting an eyelash or being uptight about it. I’m very respectful and never leave a mess. Nor am I unreasonable, and would never even ask if I saw that it was busy - it wasn’t. He actually responded to me “NO, these seats are for customers, the Uber drivers wait over there”. In addition to being unbelievably rude and unwelcoming, it felt like some kind of crazy old timely racism that I’m shocked to see unfold in as diverse a community as Downtown Peabody. The people who deliver food FOR you are unworthy of even entering the restaurant??? In a SLOW, way more than half empty dining area, if I’m not good enough to sit at the counter, why would I ever recommend your restaurant??? Or order food from you? Where do you think you are? The pre-civil rights era south? GOOD RIDDANCE! Who needs ya!!!