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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is awful, OP.  Particularly the Phoenix place.    Flat out lie.  Table for 2.   Then the other person is running late...oops! Could not make it.

I am short and no way could comfortably dine at a bar height table/stool/chair.    Also on a business trip as lone female, I would not want to be hanging out for my dinner in a bar.   Not safe.  Guys drinking.  Someone slips something in your drink. No thanks.  [/quote]

This PP has good advice, OP. Especially about how a woman seated alone at a bar, in some restaurants, might be assumed to be open to approaches by men. It happened to a friend of mine when she was doing a lot of business travel. She quickly learned to say no to being seated at a bar. She didn't like to say "table for two" since some places would keep pestering you along lines of "Are you still expecting the other party" blah blah. She said she started just walking up quickly and assertively to the host and saying immediately, "Table for ONE, please," not ever letting them get as far as asking stuff like "Just you tonight?" or "would you like to sit at the bar?"

Unless a restaurant is packed at the height of meal service and people are waiting for tables already, refusing to seat a solo patron at a table is nuts. It's arrogant. I hope you complained to that Phoenix restaurant via email afterward, OP, and were clear that you've spent money with them before but won't again, and will tell other frequent business travelers you know not to dine there, solo or otherwise. They need to hear that. [/quote]

Agreed.  When I used to travel for work I got very comfortable with marching right up to the host stand and stating with confidence, hello, table for one, please.  Head off at the pass any “just one?” awkwardness or suggestions to sit at the bar. [/quote]

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