Long story, here's my attempt at the short version:
I roll up after the group has already been seated, the place is crowded and understaffed so my friends had gone to the bar. The bartender takes their order, and gives them drinks and chips and salsa, and tells them to sit anywhere they want near the bar. They pay and close out with him, and he tells them that a waitress will come and take their order once she/he gets the chance.
Anyways we're sitting there for nearly an hour, getting no service, even though we walked up to the hostess and she told us someone was coming. However after telling us this we hear her complaining to the wait staff about us and I can tell that she is in a pissy mood. Eventually we get a waitress who comes to take our FOOD order but refuses to serve us alcohol because the hostess told her someone in the party was visibly drunk (which was completely untrue).
So the friend of the friend goes into full SJW mode slowly working his way up the chain of command, demanding to speak to their superiors, and then accusing them of not serving us because of our appearance (the hostess told him he looked too red). The whole thing was ludicrous and I was super happy to leave.