I went to a Chinese restaurant yesterday. After seated for a few minutes, the waitress came over. We thought she was here to take our orders, but she just said "we'll move u over there" and she started taking the tea/chopsticks..etc. off our table. I asked her why do we need to move, and she said our table is bigger and she wants to seat other people here and wants us to move to a smaller table. I was pissed off and left the restaurant.
Today I was eating in a different Chinese restaurant. When I was happily chewing my food, a waitress came and asked us to move to the next table because she wanted our table to seat another party of 8. At least this waitress asked. But I declined to move.
I think it's so rude that they didn't seat customers properly and ask them to move afterwards! It's not right to interrupt customers when they are in the middle of eating! My parents used to tell me 吃飯皇帝大..
I just don't understand why some C9 can be so not pro. Yes the restaurant might not be a high class place but that doesn't mean they can be impolite to the customers.
I think moving from big table to small table is fine but what if the waiter / waitress asks you politely to change table and share big tables with others?