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

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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

Omg! I booked a lovely restaurant for dd 18th who is absolutely model material (I won’t let her, I’m insisting on an education Obs) . I booked 4 weeks in advance.

is it

1. I should have told them how unutterably stunning she is as we were sat at the back in a lovely booth
2. Mr and mrs potato head (aka Dh or me) ruined her birthday by not meeting window standards (ds is of course model material too!!!)
3. they don’t know what any one looks like and don’t care. the restaurant is busy and sits people where they fit in terms of sittings and actually dgaf as long as you spend and tip well

I Obs understand I ruined by dd special birthday… will have to make it up to her by making her a brew in bed tomorrow morning Afternoon

Why care?

Personally, I dislike sitting in the window as I don't like being so visible to passers by, so thank god I really do look like a potato. I'm just happy to get a table, although I do object to one next to the toilets or too much in a gangway.

FWIW, I ate in a London restaurant at the weekend. The table in the window was occupied by a man eating on his own. And, without intending disrespect to the man, he was no Adonis.

Ooh we were sat at a window table last time we went out for dinner. I wonder if it was the extra weight I'm carrying or the perma-tired look that comes with having toddlers that did it.

Why is this a 'MUST READ?'

I am unattractive and never get a window seat.

We went for tea and some snacky bits in a cafe NR Exeter cathedral. They have an outside eating area at the front. We were asked to go inside because the front was going to be used( it was empty). I only twigged on the way out when it was still flipping empty that they had not wanted us and our perfectly respectable looking children on display at the front! Thanks 'Tea on the Green' have never used you again and never will.

I really don't think I'd notice if the people sitting by the window in a restaurant were good looking or not. And if I did I can't see it having any bearing on whether I eat there or not. 'Oh no, DH, let's not go here - the other customers are too ugly' before you've set foot in the place??
And most of the time you'd pre-book with no idea of what anyone else looks like.

What is this click baity bollocks? Surely just a pathetic attempt to direct Mumsnetters to The Standard, which is a rag!

Oh, I’ve just noticed who the OP is………

DH and I always used to get the window tables 25 years ago.

These days we only get one if the place is totally empty!

Op have you been watching Ted Lasso? It's to make the restaurant look buy as others have said. The Standard is shite and has been for years.

Well that was a waste of my time!

"Must read" indeed! 😂

Bc a man wrote it

🙄 was missing from my sentence lol

Not a must read. False advertising.

Well I must subconsciously think I'm absolutely gorgeous because I always ask for a window seat?

I should stop making it so easy for them to use me as advertising 😉

Also, less of the MUST READ please, we aren't at work & it's not a compliance memo!

I’ve worked in several restaurants this doesn’t happen.

Nor do exceptionally attractive people get loads of attention, that’s a bit delusional tbh.

Loved that ep 🤣🤣 gutted for the last one this week 💔

I often get put in the window but tbh I find it annoying due to all the passersby staring at me and occasionally trying to snog the glass or even break through it to get to me- they just can’t control themselves, such is my hotness. Puts me right off my nachos.

I can confirm I have never sat people near windows because they are good looking, it's because it's a nicer table and first come first served unless it's reserved.

WOW! I’m blown away, what an inspiring utterly thought provoking read.

I will now pay attention to where I’m seated in a restaurant, my eyes have well and truly been opened.

I have never questioned why we are usually led to the darkest, quietest tables that were out of view before and why the staff blew out any candles and requested we had to stay away from the window.
The last time we ate out we were ushered to the cellar which had no windows at all, I guess that also explains the “seatbelts” on our chairs that only the staff could undo - they weren’t for “safety reasons” they were to stop us wandering off and being glimpsed by members of the public.

Thank you for urging me to read this OP.
Now me and DP have confirmation how ugly we are I can properly address the issue
I’m currently googling plastic surgeons so one day we might get our chance to shine and get to sit amongst other diners. I’m desperate to sit in the window so passers-by can watch me struggle to eat my dinner without dropping it down my front, dropping my knife on the floor or going red in the face from wine and laughing at DP’s jokes.

Congratulations on your beautiful daughter and good looking husband. Your husband isn’t the top DJ who is spinning the decks at your daughter’s school bash is he? Or was that another lucky lady?

Must read - my daughter is stunning, all the objective evidence says so.

Let me make up some irrelevant nonsense to get as many people on here as possible to know - my daughter is STUNNING.

Blah blah blah here's some rubbish I'm pretending is my point so I can get my real point across about my fabulous family. And did I tell you that 50% of her genes came from me?

I'm not sure as my kids are stunning ( honestly i had someone tell memy dd will always be disliked as she is pretty 😍) but I'm minging so where do we sit? Maybe we need to split up.

The husband and I are ugly as the day is long, and we're also old. Never noticed this happening - last time we ate out we had a lovely table in a bay window.

Mind you, we don't live in London; we live oop north 😀

Because the OP said so 😂