BBC News - Tables for one - the rise of solo dining
for goodness sake will someone meet Suity and buy him a plate of scouse?
Not too long ago solo dining was synonymous with a greasy takeaway scoffed down in the car, or room service consumed in the sterile anonymity of your hotel room.
This was preferable to the thought of dining alone in a proper restaurant, and the associated stigma of being seen as a "friendless loser".
Some of that sense of unease surrounding booking a table for one no doubt dates back to our childhoods, when sitting alone in the high school cafeteria was paramount to social suicide.
Yet today, a growing number of us live alone - including one out of every seven adults in the US - so the stigma surrounding solo dining has started to dissipate, says Aaron Allen, a Florida-based global restaurant consultant.
This was preferable to the thought of dining alone in a proper restaurant, and the associated stigma of being seen as a "friendless loser".
Some of that sense of unease surrounding booking a table for one no doubt dates back to our childhoods, when sitting alone in the high school cafeteria was paramount to social suicide.
Yet today, a growing number of us live alone - including one out of every seven adults in the US - so the stigma surrounding solo dining has started to dissipate, says Aaron Allen, a Florida-based global restaurant consultant.
for goodness sake will someone meet Suity and buy him a plate of scouse?
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