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

😂😂😂😂😂😂 love this

As I have said on previous threads (the SM one I think), what a misnomer of a user name

FYI and as stated by me several times on these forums: More often than not we eat in Morrisons (5/7 times a year). We are not 'wealthy' but have worked hard and utilised our money wisely. Being comfortable does not mean you throw your money away at pretend, good food as different people have different tastes and choices of venues. We only really eat out, often in the hotel we stay at but do eat out when with rest of the family and living in a private property rental

Reading most of the posts, as I though, and thanks to FM's that posted their first-hand experiences of working in places to eat, none of them do this as the article suggests.

However, I'm more than certain this kind of thing is practiced by some, some of the time and by a few, all of the time

When I, me and my OH east out - it is often a supermarket, we do big Macs about once to twice a year for a small bite to eat, cuppa and a rest and use their toilets and Burger King about one every two years.

We never like to throw money away when eating out. Possibly its my taste buds but if I was charged 50 quid for a meal, no matter how good it was, it would not taste that great

The best place I ate at last year when on a couple of days break by the sea in England was - Harrys Ramsdens in Borunmout on the beachfront - they took us to the table on their glass covered rood part of the place, it was too sunny, so we asked to be moved to the shade. Guess what, I think it was 11/12 quid for a 60's plus fish nchips, desert and a cuppa - we did this when its quite around 2pm - the best meal outside I had and best VFM in all the years I can recall

The bottom line, it has stuck with me, IE the radio call-in that I recall from years ago as per my OP and then seeing this article. However, a lot older now than when I first heard this and as we don't do wana be places to eat - if we are offered a seat in x and we want Y, we ask and we get as we only often eat out, outside rush hours.

Please feel to disagree but some owners do want to attract more customers and rightly or wrongly, they assume that putting X over there etc will make their place attract more people of the type they want.

As I've said along the thread and some other FM's - most people in a not-so-full place to eat do ask to sit in a certain place and we've all done that as others do as well

TBH and I've said this before, if a place to eat was doing that IE choosing people by looks, its not for me, us

It is what it is and those having a go at me is the wrong way to address something FM's disagree with as they should take it up with the owner/s of the establisment/s.

What a load of absolute tripe. Please stop posting it's just never ending drivel

I'm wondering if I ought to start feeling sorry for this poster tbh.

Thread after thread after thread of absolute non-stories, faux innocence, spelling that goes a bit Delia Smith let's be 'aving you by late morning... sometimes s/he's rich (retired at 50) sometimes she's not (this thread) the university thread was just one long contradiction (went to university and yet left full time education at 16) other Mumsnet spin-offs taking the piss...only engages with posters who agree with s/he until the Delia effect takes hold then s/he gets uncouth and has to be deleted. (You can almost imagine the famously beautiful "OH" holding she/him back in the car park outside the Queen Vic. "It's not worth it Grant/Phil")

Maybe we should have a community wide head-tilt and ask if s/he's alright. 😏 Because Christ on a bike, there are empty lives, and then there's this.

Strangely sycophantic post.

Either way, I'm pretty sure the OP is male?

( TL;DR )
YBVU just for the MUST READ in the title

New fear unlocked

Good restaurants don’t need to do anything to encourage people to eat there.

Gross if true

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator MUST READ you are a PITA 😬

Depends on how busy it is really, I find they tend to put diners at window seats when not busy but don't reserve them for good looking people? Also about attire, if you're gorgeous but dressed scruffily, other hand dressed smartly but not a model?

No, just that the best of physical genes get window seats always 🙂

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator you’ve said you’re ‘more than certain’ this happens in expensive places. How? Seems weird to ask this question if you were already more than certain but then in the same thread say that you don’t eat in expensive places so how do you even know? (Let alone be MORE THAN certain about this)

Also your writing style reads like it’s written by AI.

So fucking what?

What kind of utter despond wants to go to a restaurant ‘because the clientele are handsome or pretty’ ? I despair, I really do…

I don’t think this is true. We as a family are often put near the entrance, regardless of looks why would they use a family to entice people in? I’m sure they’d rather non rowdy, chic looking couples!

I don't really know how to answer this as YANBU to say it's out of order to allocate seating based on looks, but YABU to say it should be based on personality. Of course you shouldn't be allocated seating in a restaurant based on your personality... or your looks. It should be first come first served. I always choose my own table otherwise, based on this Channel 4 thing, I'd be eating in the kitchen! 😂

What kind of utter despond wants to go to a restaurant ‘because the clientele are handsome or pretty’ ? I despair, I really do…

Youd be surprised just how superficial and vacuous some people can be. Ex BIL/SIL went to the local poser restaurant because they said ,
“It’s Where people like us go.” They wanted a second home in Italy because, it’s
“What people like us do.”

Those are exact quotes . I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Their friends were all equally ridiculous and status focussed.

If you have NowTV look up Curb Your Enthusiasm - US comedy by Seinfeld writer Larry David. There’s an episode about this, called The Ugly Section. It’s hilarious. One of my favourite TV series of all time

This made me die 😂

I always get offered window seats but I never want to sit in the window. I thought they just wanted window seats filled cos the place looks busy so entices people in.

I never thought about a person's looks and where they sit when I used to manage a restaurant....

Now I can laugh at any feckers I see sat at the back of a restaurant 😅

But I don't know where I'd be sat depends on the competition 😉

I'm not sure if it's really true , they likely sit people by size of table needed etc
They definitely will judge by appearance at some places , like not letting people not deemed attractive enough into 'high end' night clubs.

And sometimes it seems they have hired people to work there who they think are attractive or cool, to make the place seem trendy. But they're just total Wannabees.