In years past , my store would have people coming in at 2 pm for a table and they would still be waiting at close 9 pm . We would be turning people away that weren ' t sat . You were a walkin ? Foff . Well this year we had a newbetter GM . He pressed the hosts to press the guests to make their rezos a lot earlier . It worked like a charm . We were slammed from opening 11 am until around 7308 , but we didn ' t turn anyone away . Chef was talking about doing 1500 guests when I left . For reference , we usually do just over 200 on a busy night . <| sep |> My brain hurts . That was too genius for my feeble mind to comprehend . and by that I mean tldr , too tired and randomly browsing . Saved for toilet reading , though . <| sep |> make a contract to your corpalliance so only they can see it and find it faster