by Inspector » 26th August 2010, 14:37
Disappointed, I'm going to explain something important to you and I want you to follow carefully.
Firstly, I believe you. You were 25 ladies who did not drink beer but only a few soft drinks and wanted the DJ to play some music for them. He was unfriendly and the owner was also not particularly nice. I believe you.
Now it's time for you to learn if you can.
When 25 of you go together to a small place like Times, it means there are 25 people who could have come to eat or drink who will turn away and go to nearby Rhapsody's instead. This is not a problem for the owner if the 25 who've taken their place are also "drinking" and/or eating, especially if they stay for a very long time. If they stay for long, it means there are many sets of 25 drinkers/eaters who are turning away, which means the owner is losing millions.
This was a reunion, which means it was quite long. And you had fanta and coke, which means you didn't drink much - no one can drink too many cokes. Plus cokes are cheap. Secondly, 25 young educated ladies looking to get married will probably be watching their weight so you didn't buy a lot of food either. And there were no men in the group to try to impress you by buying lots of food anyway.
This means, my dear disappointed lady, that your presence on 25 chairs was costing the owner a lot of money in lost business.
To make matters worse, you were even demanding special music from the DJ, as if you had earned it. It doesn't work like that. These places are businesses, not parks. You want the best, you give them a lot. The DJ is there to entertain you as you spend money there.
I hope you see why the owner and the DJ were not falling over themselves to impress you.