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" Listen, we&amp;#039;ve all done it before and there&amp;#039;s no point in denying it. Wives go into labor, bones get broken, emergencies come up. It&amp;#039;s a part of life. But for a restaurateur trying to serve his customers \u2014 in the vast majority of scenarios \u2014 there will be no compassion. And rightfully so. A few nights ago, Los Angeles Vietnamese restaurant Red Medicine, the 48th-best restaurant in the country according to one poll, just started tweeting out the names of diners who failed to show up for their reservations. Why? Well, because they&amp;#039;re tired of the bullshit:    All the nice guests who wonder why restaurants overbook and they sometimes have to wait for their res should thank people like those below. \u2014 Red Medicine (@redmedicinela) March 24, 2013    This to us seems a perfectly understandable, if not natural, response. Reservations are a two-way street \u2014 they promise to hold a table if you promise to come. Remember how pissed you were the last time your table wasn&amp;#039;t waiting for you after making a reservation (Yes, you are free to tweet about that).  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d like diners to realize that one short call to cancel can make a big difference,&amp;quot; general manager Noah Ellis told ABC News. I mean, it&amp;#039;s so hard, we can do it in five easy steps: Remove your cell phone from your pocket. (Careful here: The tighter the pants, the more delicate the extraction.) Redial the same number you called earlier to make the reservation. (Take heed: The number may have been lost among the 90 other calls you made between now and when you called to make the reservation.) Two sentences. You don&amp;#039;t even have to pretend to be polite, really. (&amp;quot;Hi, name is ____. I&amp;#039;d like to cancel my __:__ reservation.&amp;quot;) Hang up. Proceed to eat a dinner that is probably not as good as the country&amp;#039;s allegedly 48th-best restaurant.  [via KMBZ] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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