So people here, who supposedly have "lived here for years...and let me tell you..." don't understand the gravity of "a person of influence" coming to your table and forcing themselves into your group / upon you against your wishes.
Having owned a restaurant in a smallish tourist village I have seen this happen when the local Police seargeant and Poo Yai Baan tried to force me to keep the restaurant open and pander to my niece who was a waitress. All of my staff including my wife were too scared to do anything / resist.
I simply started filming and telling them they were being live streamed (they weren't being live streamed because back then I didn't know how to) this made them cr@p themselves and leave (without paying the bill until I went to the police station and talked to the Boss)
The police chief was both understanding and apologetic and assured me there would be no problems in future, which for the next three years we lived there, there were not.