Spin off... when at a restaurant with one other person, how do you sit?

[sam_gordon]

The 2 top thread has me curious...

When you go out to eat with someone else, how do you arrange yourself at the table? I'm always opposite regardless of who I'm with.

 

[WDW_fan_in_TX]

If it's just DW and I, and we're at a boot, we sit opposite. If we're at a table, we sit next to each other.

 

[easyas123]

Opposite

 

[Disneylover99]

If it's just DW and I, and we're at a boot, we sit opposite. If we're at a table, we sit next to each other.

Don’t you strain your necks trying to talk with one another?

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

At the end of the table, where escape is easiest. Among other things, I suffer from Social Anxiety Disorder.

 

[TippyThomas]

Opposite

 

[dizneegirl]

I sit where I can see them to have a conversation. It could be opposite, it could be on either side of a corner of a bar or table (is that technically next to each other?). Whatever, I wouldn't sit next to them, as it would be harder to converse, and I don't need to be bumping elbows (DH is horrible about that... he can eat with either hand, but always chooses the one that will bump my arm!).

 

[Kitty 34]

If it's with a friend I sit opposite.

If it's with DH (the few times we go to Applebee's) we usually sit at the bar and I make sure I sit on his "good ear" side.

 

[soccerdad72]

It depends on the table. Usually, I'll be across from my wife, but if it's a square 4 top table, we'll sit next to each other (e.g. two sides of a square).

 

[RedHead0186]

Majority of the time, opposite. I'm sure every once in a while there might be circumstances where we don't, but overall I sit opposite. It's easier to talk to someone that way (IMO).

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I marked "opposite" but I did forget about bar seating, then it's side-by-side. MMmmm 99 trivia & bar specials.

 

[sam_gordon]

I marked "opposite" but I did forget about bar seating, then it's side-by-side. MMmmm 99 trivia & bar specials.

Kind of hard to do "opposite" for bar seating. lol

 

[Meriweather]

opposite

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Kind of hard to do "opposite" for bar seating. lol

True but the way most 2 person tables are set up it's not exactly feasible to do side-by-side...

I guess it's moot because both of these fall under the "no choice" category.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Across from each other unless the conditions of the restaurant or table location make for sitting next to each other better something like sunlight on one side or something we're supposed to be watching like a performance (something on the tv doesn't count).

 

[RedAngie]

At a booth, always opposite, whether with DH, a daughter, a friend, a colleague, etc. Never next to each other on the same side of the booth.

At a 4 top, sometimes across from each other. Sometimes the other person to my right or left.

I remember hearing way back when that there was a “proper” way for couples to sit perpendicular to each other at a table. Was the man supposed to be to the right of the woman? Or to the left?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Was the man supposed to be to the right of the woman? Or to the left?

For the left handers we just pick the side that means we're not bumping elbows unless necessary

 

[AppleDumpling]

It depends on the table. Usually, I'll be across from my wife, but if it's a square 4 top table, we'll sit next to each other (e.g. two sides of a square).

This is us too. And it also depends on the placement of the table in the room. If the table is against a wall, I prefer to sit with my back to the wall, so I can see the whole room, and also be out of the “aisle” of foot traffic of wait staff and other customers walking by. If the corner of a square table faces the wall, DH and I both sit on the wall side.

 

[fla4fun]

I feel like it’s easier to talk if sitting across, so I do that when there are only two. It also gives both of us a little more elbow space. I wouldn’t necessarily complain if it was a romantic dinner and my SO wanted to sit next to me, but I wouldn’t want to be in the inside seat of a booth where I can’t get out easily. I’d need to be in the outside seat or I would spend the whole meal worrying about whether I might need to get out.

 

[E&Cmom]

If just the 2 of us opposite. If we are with my daughters or other family/ friends side fo side.