Do you ever think about this when you eat out? MUST READ

[DistinguishedSocialCommentator]

Years ago, I think it was a phone-in radio show show where they were talking about eating out. The caller said they put good-looking, smart people near windows and other prominent positions to entice new customers and I though, really, and started thinking where we were seated last time we ate out, lol

We rarely eat out other than a bite to eat at the local supermarkets unless on hols etc but when on hols, thankfully I have a really good-looking OH
😂and get a seat next to a window unless we don't want it.

I know for a fact that our daughter gets loads of attention from the waiters, male and female because she looks stunning, so it could be true?

Its their business, their choice, but not good practice IMO if it is still true in some places (For the record, I we do get put off if we see loud people and this that talk a lot with their hands and standing up, sitting down and big lol's)

NB: Do you own a restaurant/etc, do you practice stuff like this?

AIBU to think this kind of behaviour by some places that you go to eat to are doing this kind of thing are totally out of order as it should be the personality/behviour and not looks?

From a great newspaper in London - see below

Researchers on Channel 4 show Tricks of the Restaurant Trade discovered the best-looking diners were seated near windows to entice customers while less attractive customers were hidden away near the rear.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/top-london-restaurants-sit-ugly-people-at-the-back-claims-channel-4-show-a3148566.html

We have had window seats and seats in other places if we have not pre-booked a place we just sit wherever if tables available, i honestly think you are reading to much into this OP it does not matter about the way someone looks i always imagine they will sit people appropriately depending on table party size.

I have worked in all kinds of restaurants my whole life, including some very posh 5 star type London ones and I’ve never heard this. I can’t say I’ve ever looked at a couple and decided to sit them at the window because they’re good looking 😂

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😆 I’m sure you don’t!

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Well I feel like shit now OP. We took the children (oh I know actual children, THREE of them as well) to a nice restaurant and we were put at the back as though they wanted to hide us. It was that awkward we ended up leaving since they just left us with the menus for ages. I think we took the hint well 🤣

I bet the reverse is true, though - they'll put anyone in the window, except people with visible facial deformities. I wonder what they would do when the person is famous for said facial deformities... in the window with a big vase of flowers in front of them?

Hilarious! 🤣

On holiday in seaside restaurants they like to put people near the front ( especially if it has an outdoor part ) to make it look busier. Well, this is what I've always thought anyway.
We have been put up the back of restaurants in the UK before now , maybe because we are not that attractive!
It's an interesting theory though.

I actually knew it was him before I clicked on the thread! 🤣🤣

I don't think about this to be honest. I've not noticed Brits abroad being put in the rear part of a restaurant in favour of smart French and Italians, for example.

They'd put Quasimodo in the window to make it look busy rather than leave it empty.

The standard is a tatty rag these days, has been for many many years.

I sat in Greggs the other day, with my stunning Daughter, in the window seat

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In what way is a post about an eight-year-old story in a free newspaper, about something that’s been known forever, a ‘MUST READ’?

The standard is a great paper? You’re definitely on the wind up OP!!

What about if I book a table? Do they trawl social networks to find me and identify my closest connections to predict who I might be dining with and therefore where to seat us in the restaurant when they reserve the table?

oh it’s her and her husband, bung them in the bins.

table for 3? Probably the quarterly cousin meet up with her mega babe relatives, sit them in the window with spotlights on them.

This. My other half and I often eat out and are always offered window seats . We're not remotely a good looking couple!!

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator

You are a twat.

Hahaha they put you in the window to make it look busy 😄

They put people at the front to make it look busy....

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I remember hearing about this, and sometimes wonder about it, but think more likely it is to make the place look busy. We get put in different places, sometimes near the window, sometimes not even when it's empty, and we are past our best! So I don't know.

You'll be posted about on the next AIBU thread about reading posts

Nothing much happens other than that, it's quite disappointing when you take those kind of risks 😂

Indeed 🤣🤣🤣

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator

your pathetic boasting and self promotion of your article makes me want to seat you in the back

I remember this was a story line in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Since watching that DH are painfully aware that we are usually seated in the ugly corner.🙂