"I had a reservation for 10 for 830pm. A friend of mine got there before me, so he got seated at our table. The server came and asked him if our party of 10 would all be on one check and he said no. She let him know that if we wanted separate checks, we needed to order our drinks separately from the bar and told him to try the bar upstairs because the service was faster. He said great and went upstairs to the bar. When I got to the door, I waited about 5 minutes, but there was no one around for me to ask about the table so I called my friend and asked him where he was. He told me he was upstairs because, per our server, the service would be quicker there since we were doing separate checks. I didn’t know where our table was at that point because like I said, no one had been around at the door to check in. I went upstairs to meet my friend to ask him where the table was. It took a little bit of time to find him because it was crowded, and when I finally found him, he was on the line to get a drink. Because he was next, we waited together for him to get his drink. All of this took about 10 minutes. Once we got back downstairs to go to our table, we realized they had given it away to other parties. When he asked the hostess what was going on, she replied that they thought that we left and gave our table away. We did not leave, we did with the server instructed us to do and went upstairs to order our drinks. Not one time did anyone tell anyone that we were not allowed to leave our table. I’m very disappointed because I did not get to celebrate my birthday the way I wanted to. We ended up having to leave because it was so crowded in there and our table was given away so there was nowhere really to go. Anyways, if you get a table, make sure someone is always sitting at it so it won’t get given away."
