Captain Tom's

Man I love the food here but I'll never return to this location. If you're familiar with this restaurant, then you know that you have to wait for seating. The best seats are on the inside so you don't have yell to the server or reach over anyone to get your food. An employee cleaned 3 seats off and called my family over to be seated. The customer next to the 3 available inside seats said that he was reserving one of the seats for his wife. That's not how this restaurant operates. You wait in line until the number of seats are available for your party.

I politely told him that these are the only available 3 inside seats and that the employee called us over to sit here. The customer understood and said he would move to the outside seats to wait on his wife (he was already done eating). I guess he explained the situation in Spanish to who would've been our server and the server in said "No No No!!" As he instructed the customer to stay seated. The server then placed a napkin in one of the available 3 seats and then walked away without acknowledging me and my family. So now we're standing in front of 3 empty seats, that we were waved to come sit at, without any indication of what to do. I ask the server when he returned "Are you not allowing us to sit here?" He said "No". By this time I was frustrated and told my family that we were leaving. The server shrugged.

Many of the surrounding customers offered their seats to us as we were walking out. All kind gestures by them but I no longer wanted to spend money where I was not welcomed. I don't use the "discrimination card" often but with my family being the only 3 African American people there, it did cross my mind. The cashier actually apologized to us as we were leaving but that doesn't negate that the server was willing to break their policy on reserving seats to ensure my family would not have a decent dining experience.