Chapter 16-18

When the waitress brings Coodemay's dinner to him, Coodemay refuses to take it off the tray. Instead, he tells the waitress to stand there with the food on the tray and allow him to eat off it. He says that this is fair because the restaurant has run out of chairs and it would be very difficult to eat without having the waitress hold his plate. Then, Coodemay tries to take Sop-de-Bottom's chair. They begin fighting. Tea Cake steps into the fight ostensibly on Mrs. Turner's behalf saying that "she is too nice a woman" to have people destroying her restaurant.