Four reservations tonight, arrived and upon being led to the dining room, stopped and asked to be seated at the bar.

One woman insisted that she booked the bar because a high top table is the bar.

I did not argue.

Two women arrived, get redirected to the bar and are seated. They realize a friend is seated across the bar from them and ask to move.

Which brings me to my point.

Do not assume the single man sitting across the bar from you, who happens to know you, wants to sit with you.

Yes he might.

But he might not.

And you’ll never know because you didn’t ask.

You insisted you be moved. So now he’s having dinner with friends whether he wanted to or not.

Fun fact.

The same is true when you are two and there are two friends already seated at the bar. We had a couple last summer who requested to sit near their friends whenever they made a reservation.

Six weeks later, the friends asked if we could say it didn’t work out because they didn’t want to eat with them every time they came to the bar.

So.

When dining at the bar.

Stick with the luck of the plan. If you are seated next to your friend, great.

If not.

Maybe great for them.