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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is just loners romanizing going out to eat alone, usually just because they don’t want to feel even more depressed boozing alone at home. Eating alone sucks. Tipping 25% on a dinner tab so you can pretend to read a book or scroll on your phone in a restaurant is sad. Use DoorDash or Toast and call it a night.[/quote]

What's sad is that you're so insecure and think they even notice you and much less care. [/quote]

Not insecurity, I’m just not going to romanticize something that’s factually dreadful. Especially since post Covid, every restaurant has well-oiled carry out, [b]there’s no reason not to simply eat at home or in your hotel.[/b]

As for your conversations with staff, you all are just guilt-tripping and essentially coercing servant class workers to talk to you. They rely on tips and obviously don’t want to be stiffed because they gave some chatty loner the cold shoulder.[/quote]

The reason is…I like it?

Not all the time. Sometimes I’d rather go back to my hotel room and watch The Office, which for some reason is always on in every hotel room I’ve ever stayed in, a fact I find both curious and comforting. But then you’ve got all those plastic takeout containers…so you have to do that thing where you gather all the trash and set the bag quietly outside your door for some mysterious hotel ghost to take away during the night…and even so your [b]hotel room still smells like pho or falafel or whatever…[/b]and despite laying down a towel before eating you still got a little soy sauce on your comforter…

Plus restaurants are nice. Sometimes I’d just rather dine in. That’s my reason.

(Fwiw, I’m personally not a chatterer. I’m the airpods-in-ears-don’t-talk-to-me-type. I do tip well, though.)[/quote]

This. I don’t eat in my bedroom at home. I’m not doing it when I travel. Restaurant all the way. [/quote]

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