Did you develop an opinion from your hunch-gut? Do you need more information? Am I tipping my hand as to which side of the argument I think is the correct side?
Here’s the basics: One Los Angeles restaurant got so frustrated by no-shows who made reservations and never appeared that they went on Twitter to call them out by name. By name!
(You shouldn’t watch that silly video, by the way. I’m just using it to say, I think that Twitter functions in this sense like the stocks in the Publick Squaire.)
So check it out: for this story in the Consumerist, the names have been blotted out. You probably instead want to read this version, which EaterLA released, because if you know one of these knuckleheads, you, too, can shame them on Twitter. Or on Pinterest, even. Give it a try.
Oh, heck, here’s a screen grab from EaterLA:
Look, it’s obvious, right? You’re hogging a space that some well-meaning business uses to make money. If you don’t use it, and they turn people away, they don’t make money.
Not to mention it’s rude.
I hate people when they’re not polite, as the poet once sang.