Had a terrible experience at this restaurant. Took...

Had a terrible experience at this restaurant. Took a group of co-workers there. They all work in schools and have a very tough job as school social workers and wanted to treat them for breakfast.

The hostess wouldn't seat us until all of our party was there. I get that. I see that that is common practice in a lot of restaurants. That wasn't the issue. I asked if I could wait for my party having a cup of coffee at the counter and was told that I couldn't.

What?!

I told the hostess that she could ask me to move if a party came in and wanted that counter seat. The answer? "No, because then we have to clean the counter."

What?!

So we got seated when my party got there. I wasn't sure if another co-worker was going to be able to join us and she came in later. They refused to take her order saying that that meant that we would take up the table for more time.

What?!

I have never had this experience at any other restaurant. When I went to speak to the manager and asked if whose policy this was. He said that it was his and it was his place. He said that they try to keep things flowing which I understand. The place seems to be very popular. But if you are trying to keep your customer base happy and keep it as a community hub, you don't treat people like this.

I will never go back. I was approached one more time, BY A 2ND MANAGE (WTH??) to be told the policy and that they'd be taking my coworkers order "this one time"..... after it had already been made clear to me.

I was being infantilized was being spoken to with some real condescension. I understand businesses are hard to keep afloat these days, especially restaurants but this is no way to treat customers, especially first timers.

The food was good. I'm not sure what all the commotion is about. The only thing that I can think of is that there aren't many breakfast places around here or anything similar. That means that the community has to deal with whatever rude business owner decides to take that risk.

I, for one, believe that businesses should be a part of the community and should be a place where community members feel welcomed. That was not the case here.