At least to me, it depends on the type of reservations the restaurant takes. Most, a reservation is simply for a place in their list of names of people waiting. Basically, your name is added before you arrive, and at a specific time. Just about every restaurant I go to, that takes a reservation, works like this. When you do arrive, you get the first available table, which could be any table.
That is very different from a rare restaurant that actually holds open a specific table for you and only you. When you don't show up, that table remains empty and therefore doesn't produce any revenue for the owner, nor any tip for the waitstaff assigned to that table. In that unique circumstance, then YES, you should be responsible to compensate both the owner and the waitstaff since their loss, if entirely your fault.
At least to me, it depends on the type of reservations the restaurant takes. Most, a reservation is simply for a place in their list of names of people waiting. Basically, your name is added before you arrive, and at a specific time. Just about every restaurant I go to, that takes a reservation, works like this. When you do arrive, you get the first available table, which could be any table.
That is very different from a rare restaurant that actually holds open a specific table for you and only you. When you don't show up, that table remains empty and therefore doesn't produce any revenue for the owner, nor any tip for the waitstaff assigned to that table. In that unique circumstance, then YES, you should be responsible to compensate both the owner and the waitstaff since their loss, if entirely your fault.