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[AKLRULZ]

What is your threshold for waiting to be seated while dining out?

Anything more than 30 minutes and we're headed to Chik-Fil-A!

[BostonTeaParty]

Depends. If we have the kids with us, 30 minutes is usually long enough. If it's just the two of us, we'll head into the bar for a cocktail and wait up to an hour. Unless of course we're really hungry. Then, forget it. We'll go somewhere else.

[Janet 46]

Usually 30 minutes is our limit too. But recently, we went out to dinner for my sister's 50th birthday with my whole family, a group of 14 to the Olive Garden - they don't take ressies. DH, the kids and I got there about 15 minutes earlier than we were supposed to meet to get our name on the list...and they said the wait was an hour and a half! Good grief! The whole family was coming and they would not be happy! Fortunately, my younger sister, Nancy and her hubby were 15 minutes late and just as they showed up, our buzzer went off! An hour and a half was only 35 minutes! We were very lucky that night.

[mrsmaup]

What waiting? I live where there are no people, we never have to wait

Well, except on the weekends, especially a Sunday after church, then you can expect a lengthy wait...Troy dosent have the patience to wait more than 30 min at home.

When we go to So. Cal however, we find a normal wait regardless of the time of day or time of year is close to an hour.......

[Belle*]

I don't remember the last time I walked into a restaurant and waited to be seated. We always call ahead to see if there is a wait. If we can't put our name on the list over the phone, we go somewere else! I think the most I would be willing to wait would be 20 minutes. There are too many other restaurants literally within walking distance around here to bother waiting.

[DVC_Don]

20 to 30 minutes. We use the same rule for lines at WDW. Thank goodness for FP. Maybe some restaurants should do that.

[Chrissi]

DS is not one to wait. We are either seated with no wait, or after 10 minutes, the hostess gets tired of hearing me say "No Donovan, I said stop that, don't eat the plant, don't pull mama's hair, stop poking daddy in the eye..." and seats us to get us out of her hair, or we go somewhere else. I rarely have the patience for the annoy-the-hostess approach.

[luvnwdwgal]

We don't eat out very often, and usually we're able to be seated right away anyway. But I'm willing to wait about 20 minutes before going somewhere else.

[Laura W.]

20 - 30 minutes here - especially with a toddler. It seems like now that we have 5 it takes longer as mosts booths or tables are made for four.
Laura

[goofy4goofy]

Depends. Thirty minutes if it's just a place we chose 'cause we're hungry. An hour if it's for a special reason.

Kelly

[simbarel]

I could wait all night in the lounge, so it's DF who usually makes the call on how long we'll wait. Now if there's no seating in the lounge...it depends on how hungry or cranky I am and how much I really want to eat there. Now that I think about it though, we usually patron local restaurants rather than chains, so manytimes there are no lines. The last time we had to wait was when we were cashing in a GC at the Olive Garden.

[mom2my4dwarfs]

No more then 30 minutes. With four kids and two of them being 3 that is all that we can handle. Occasionally, we will also spilt up. One of us will take the kids to the van to watch a DVD and the other one waits inside.

[Colexis Mom]

With 2 little kids, we try not to wait anywhere. At most, we could last 30 minutes, but I'd say that's pushing it

[chezp]

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I don't remember the last time I walked into a restaurant and waited to be seated. We always call ahead to see if there is a wait.

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We're exactly the same as you Sara.

[GoofyMom]

If the hostess says the wait is over 20 minutes, we turn around and find a different place to eat. Like someone else said, there's too many restaurants around here to waste time waiting for a table.