yeah this sorts of situations used to drive me nuts in the food industry. It's amazing to me that people can walk in so late to an establishment that is clearly in the process of shutting down and be completely unconcerned about the fact that they are, at the minimum, severely inconveniencing other people.

I'm at the point in my life now (especially at restaurants) where if it is like, say in the last HOUR that the place is open i will look elsewhere but this comes from me having years of experience in that industry.

There was a big Outback style place that I worked at and the company decided to shut down the location, all of the staff were invited in to make some money to help with the moving of furniture and all sorts of other stuff involved in vacating the building. The exterior lights were off, the "specials" section on the street sign said "Closed" and at the only entrance there was a massive sign explaining what had happened and "thanks for the past 14 years or whatever. There was also plates, chairs, and whatever just all over the place... it was chaos.

We still had 4 or 5 groups of people wander past all of that and actually try to find someone to get them a table asking "are ya'll open for service?" and what not.

So in conclusion my long-winded point is: I don't think a lot of these clowns are actually aware of how rude they are being.... They are just exceptionally dumb.