/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13758616]

>want to eat at a restaurant
>have no friends

where do you sit? or do you just go get mcdonalds out of anxiety and embarassment instead?

[Anonymous No.13758621]

>>13758616
Eat in car.

[Anonymous No.13758623]

>>13758616
You sit at the bar

[Anonymous No.13758625]

>>13758616
I get a table unless its packed then i sit at the bar. Fuck going straight to the bar just because your a single. Tables are more comfortable.

[Anonymous No.13758628]

>>13758625
this. also i cant fit in booths

[Anonymous No.13758630]

>>13758616
I don't know, is it really so strange to go have lunch on your own? If you're alone they'll probably seat you wherever it suits them the most in terms of capacity.

[Anonymous No.13758641]

>>13758616
i choose to eat at mcdonalds and try to hide my presence because of anxiety, ive not considered going to a restaurant alone at all

[Anonymous No.13758644]

>>13758641
i only go to buffets alone because the whole place is filled with losers like me so i dont feel as bad

[Anonymous No.13758650]

>>13758644
true, there is always that obese person munching down on the ribs or roast beef at buffets

[Anonymous No.13758663]

>>13758616

You take it into the toilets and choose an open cubicle of course.

[Anonymous No.13758665]

>>13758616
Headphones.

[Anonymous No.13758669]

>>13758665
Yeah, because that doesn't make you look socially retarded at all. Then again it seems like everyone is wearing ear buds these days no matter what they're doing.

[Anonymous No.13758673]

>>13758641
Imagine being such a pussy bitch you care what absolute strangers think of you.

[Anonymous No.13758676]

>>13758628
is this like a 4d shitpost or can you not actually fit in booths

[Anonymous No.13758680]

>>13758669
It doesn't make you look socially retarded because no one os paying attention to you. You're not that special. Just like everyone else.

[Anonymous No.13758688]

>tfw no single seat bar restaurant

[Anonymous No.13758692]

>>13758680
You should pay more attention to your surroundings. Stop being so self absorbed and observe the world and people around you. You'll come to understand it all more deeply.

[Anonymous No.13758695]

>>13758616
I sit at home

[Anonymous No.13758713]

have you guys considered trying to make friends?

[Anonymous No.13758728]

>>13758713
Yes. The idea doesn't appeal to me.

[Anonymous No.13758759]

>>13758665
>he doesn't dress full Neku to avoid human contact
NGMI

[Anonymous No.13758791]

went to McDonald's today and got a Filet-O-Fish combo with a bacon cheeseburger on the side. I was eating it in my vehicle in the parking lot and listening to an audiobook when I glanced up and saw the McDonald's worker I ordered outside having a cigarette.

She waved at me and I nodded and had to wait 7 minutes before she went back inside and I could eat in comfort again. I don't think that employees should be bothering or even trying to socialize with customers outside of the McDonald's restaurant or drive through, but that is another story.

I went to McDonald's for dinner tonight and got a McChicken combo with a bacon cheeseburger on the side. As I was driving to the second window the same girl was still working. She was acting somewhat obsequious and attempting small talk when she asked, 'why don't you come eat inside instead of in the parking lot where it is cold'.

[Anonymous No.13758796]

>>13758791
That really bothered me for many reasons. First of all, I don't want my routine or actions to be tracked by a fast food employee. Secondly, she should not try to tell me how I should live my life. I do not want to eat inside because I find it less comfortable and would much rather be inside my vehicle listening to an audiobook and enjoying myself and my privacy.

Overall, I think it was very unprofessional to bring this up. I should have a clean slate with each drive through visit, not have to get the third degree because I committed some sort of faux pas. Which I don't think I did, because I often see people eating in fast food parking lots. How does she know I am not busy going to work or somewhere in a rush?

How do you feel about eating in your vehicle in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant versus eating inside the restaurant?

[Anonymous No.13758799]

>>13758676
its difficult and my belly is pressed up against the table making it hard to move or eat

[Anonymous No.13758803]

>>13758616
Do you live in NY? If so I’ll go to dinner with you.

[Anonymous No.13758805]

>>13758616
unless you repeatedly go to the same place looking like you're going to cry, people just assume you're a serious business dude if you drop into a restaurant to grab a bite alone. ask for a seat with a nice view if it's not crowded and there's windows or an aquarium or some shit

[Anonymous No.13758835]

>>13758616
>>want to eat at a restaurant
>>have no friends
>where do you sit? (or don't go)
Multi-fold answer to this dilemma because there _are_ some restaurants and times of day that lack a comfy feeling when alone, whether because no bar, no business customers, romantic date night private areas, or else so damn busy some rude maitre'd or waiter feels cheated when you are only 1 person. Many ways around it course, as well as the edict not to be cheap AND alone AND at the table with a view, and maybe lunch time and takeout (at first) is best if you just want to get into the door and try the good things. Bring a book/newspaper/map/tablet and look like you're on break from work, or a tourist. Sit at the bar, and actually order a drink and ask if you can order from the kitchen at the bar or if you need a table...often, they'll pull out a lovely placemat and napkin, and be thrilled you are there with them, while they go to get a menu for you. This is the ideal situation. You've just increased the waiter's tip with your new tab, and you'll keep ordering booze both. Best if they are not utterly busy, of course, and you're at the bar because the table wait is 45mins. Autist can ask for a menu just to plan some takeout, if you're shy.
Sometimes if they have just opened or it's a weird time of day you can get the pick of the tables and not be rushed off for a long time and have a glorious time alone. Face away from the people watching, and get your reading material out. Type and take a couple pictures and they might worry you are doing a review. If they are kind of busy, you can kind of ask for this or that upfront, your check now, and that you'll be just fine if they can't wait on you that much. They leave you alone and it's winwin most of the time. This is great for the studying student or business person.

[Anonymous No.13758848]

>>13758835
>Face away from the people watching, and get your reading material out
But what i'm posting cunny threads on 4chan and don't want people seeing over my shoulder?

[Anonymous No.13758856]

>>13758791
>She waved at me and I nodded and had to wait 7 minutes before she went back inside and I could eat in comfort again. I don't think that employees should be bothering or even trying to socialize with customers outside of the McDonald's restaurant or drive through, but that is another story.
You made random eye contact. A nod, smile or wave is basic human decency and etiquette. Did you expect to be flipped off, or for them to turn their back like they didn't see and recognize someone they had just recognized?

Maybe next time you want to defend being antisocial (which is your right), just say something like "oh, I'm always on my phone for work, and since I find it rude to talk in a restaurant, I typically don't eat inside when I'm on call" but "that's sweet of you to ask, thanks for welcoming me" or just mention your thing is audiobooks, and it's your guilty pleasure kind of break to dine and get the next chapter. I would actually liken eating in a McDs as a single adult almost like going to a Chuck E Cheese alone. It's filled with screaming misbehaving children and can even look weird.

[Anonymous No.13758873]

>>13758803
btw I'm claire from bon apetit

[SUBMIT No.13758879]

>>13758873
gb2 auschwitz

[Anonymous No.13758895]

this is actually the IDEAL time to eat at a restaurant alone because of the coronavirus scare

go out now and eat

[Anonymous No.13758971]

>>13758673
how can this site both have people like this and love cringe bullshit

>>13758692
if i pay attention to others that means others are likely to pay attention to me

>>13758713
i have them im just a fat fuck and embarassed to eat in front of them and i don't want to trouble them most of the time

[Anonymous No.13759519]

>>13758791
>>13758796
is this what having autism is like

[Anonymous No.13759597]

Sit wherever you want. Take up an entire table.

If they have a communal table, sit at it.

[Anonymous No.13759670]

>>13758713
if any of us were capable of making friends, we wouldn't be here.

[Anonymous No.13759953]

>>13758623
Bingo

[Anonymous No.13759963]

>>13758616
I'll go with ya

[Anonymous No.13759975]

>>13758856
>>13759519
stop posting

[Anonymous No.13759987]

Pretend you have friends, but you've decided to eat out alone today, maybe you're at lunch at work.

[Anonymous No.13759988]

>>13758616
As someone who goes out for lunch regularly, I eat wherever the fuck I feel like eating.

Bars are great for faster service, or when there is a wait for tables. The only risk for the bar is that the tender may talk to you if they aren't super busy, which if you are a sperglord I can see how that would be troublesome, but the rest of us just make small talk.

[Anonymous No.13759995]

>>13758791
>>13758796
Please tell me this is a pasta

[Anonymous No.13759999]

>>13759995
Nah, it appears real. I've definitely seen car-sitters like this in fast food parking lots before.

[Anonymous No.13760002]

>>13758669

[Anonymous No.13760005]

>>13758713
Normal people don't "try" to make friends, they just have them as a result of their normal lives. If you have to try you already lost.

[Anonymous No.13760009]

>>13758856
>>13759995
>>13759519
hownew.ru

[Anonymous No.13760045]

>>13758616
We really need one of those rent a friend/family places in the US, like the ones they have in Japan.

Sometimes I want to go to the movies or a restaurant. But the friends I have are too embarrassing to for me to be seen in public with them. One is an overweight autistic white guy, the other a skinny tall Nigerian who can barely speak English. I feel embarrassed to be seen in public with them.

Taking a female's Jacket and purse to the movies to make it look like I'm with someone can only work for so long.
Last time I did it, I was feeling confident so I struck up a conversation with the couple next to me while we were waiting for the movie to start.
By the way I described her, they really liked my "gf" they like her so much that they could not wait to meet her and invited us to a concert that next weekend. I told them that she was in the washroom and we would love to join them. And I couldn't wait for them to meet her. She would like the, too. We all had so much in common.

Eventually they started wondering why she was taking so long and if she was Okay. They joked that maybe she was stuck in the toilet.
The movie was about to start and my "gf" wasn't back yet so I had to pretend that she texted me and I had to go meet her. I left the theater without watching the movie and never went back there I case I ran into that couple again.

[Anonymous No.13761153]

>>13758616
I book a table for two and make out I've been stood up.

[Anonymous No.13762072]

>>13758895
good point

I'm going on a food tour soon. as long as people don't coof on me I'm fine

[Anonymous No.13762078]

>>13758616
McDonald's is a restaurant.
Retard.

[OP is a faggot No.13762079]

>>13758616
>fast food: eat in car
>nice restaurant: eat at bar
I'm a poet
And didn't know it

[Anonymous No.13762084]

>>13761153
>How could she do this to me?!
>Guess I'll eat her food too..
Works every time.

[Anonymous No.13762105]

>>13762078
>eating at mcdonald's

[Anonymous No.13762106]

>>13758616

There's nothing more patrician than having a restaurant booth to yourself.

[Anonymous No.13762137]

>he isn't used to doing everything alone

lol

[Anonymous No.13762174]

is it weird to make a reservation for 1? at a nice restaurant

[Anonymous No.13762265]

>>13760045

[Anonymous No.13762297]

>>13760045
I screencapped this.

[Anonymous No.13762301]

>>13758616
table for six pls

[Anonymous No.13762311]

>>13758799
Maybe you should stop eating until you can fit in a booth

[Anonymous No.13762326]

I'm so fucking lonely, bros.

[Anonymous No.13762329]

>>13760045
This is the most autistic thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.13762364]

Guess OP doesn't live in one of the states (or countries) with no singles laws at restaurants. In those places you can usually find hispanic chicks hanging outside the restaurant who'll eat with you for $20 or whatever. They're probably the wives of the guys looking for work outside Home Depot. You'd think even in places where it's legal women would do this to keep you from being ostracized by the community for eating alone.

[Anonymous No.13762384]

>>13758796
> ignatious

you should read or listen to confederacy of dunces.

[Anonymous No.13762454]

>>13758665
>he thinks he’s baby driver

[Anonymous No.13762468]

>>13758796
Why don’t you just bring the food back home?

[Anonymous No.13762568]

>>13758616
>where do you sit?
At the table they give me when I say "Table for 1"

t. consultant who has travelled alone quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.13762587]

>>13758616
Embarrassment is for people who care what others think. Caring about what others think is beta. Do whatever the fuck you want to do and don’t pay attention to others while you do it. People who pay attention to what others do simply don’t have enough of an actual life to keep themselves occupied. They are losers. What they think doesn’t matter. Ignore them or be one of them. Your choice.

[Anonymous No.13762597]

>>13762364
>turning down a paying customer
Nice b8

[Anonymous No.13762621]

>>13760045
>what we need is one of those rent a friend/family places
have you considered actual friends or dare I say it... a girlfriend?

[Anonymous No.13762645]

I used to go to one Chinese restaurant where the tables for two were right next to the smoking section.

I mean right next to them. The divider between the smoking section and the regular section was a short wall as high as the tables. The tables on each side would be pushed up against that wall. The result was that if you were sitting at one of those tables, it was as if you were sitting at the same table with people smoking.

So when I would walk in and say a table for one, they would inevitably try to lead me to one of those tables. I'd follow for about three steps and then angle over to the table that was the furtherest from the smoking section -- the largest table in the restaurant and it could seat eight -- and I'd sit there.

[Anonymous No.13762652]

>>13762645
>smoking section
nigga it’s 2020. You’ve been in a coma.

[Anonymous No.13762658]

>>13762645

...

Usually I'd have the table to myself. On a couple of occasions someone else would come sit with me. That was fine with me -- I've sat at community tables at a number of different places.

[Anonymous No.13762685]

>>13759519
N E W F A G
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[Anonymous No.13762754]

You can sit at any table you want no one cares they're all on their phones anyway

[Anonymous No.13762766]

Eating at a restaurant is for faggots, cooking is fun and if you're not retarded you can usually make better food anyway.

[Anonymous No.13762847]

>>13760045

I think you fit in just fine with the two friends you have, anon

[Anonymous No.13762897]

>>13762587
We live in a society where people say it's cool to not care about what others think and then estrange those who don't behave the way they expect.

[Anonymous No.13762908]

>>13758616
Request a booth. Bring a book or just fuck around with your phone while you are there. A book is better, the wait staff treats you with more respect if you are reading a book instead of being a typical Zoomer.

[Anonymous No.13762925]

>>13758616
i sit at the bar and take up three places' worth of appetizers, drink five beers and tip the bartender whatever her age is in cents
so if she's 25, her tip is $.25

[Anonymous No.13762938]

>>13758616
>imagine going into an establishment by yourself to eat a meal while minding your own business

[Anonymous No.13762947]

>>13758791
>>13758796
Be careful with this pasta, it's an antique.

[Anonymous No.13762962]

>>13762384
>you should read or listen to confederacy of dunces.
/rarebook/
FREN!

[Anonymous No.13763021]

>>13758623
Yup. Unironically this.

[Anonymous No.13763032]

>>13762962
Based /lit/fag.

[Anonymous No.13763073]

>>13758791
>>13758796
anyone else read this in review brah's voice?

[Anonymous No.13763401]

>>13758616
literally no one gives a fuck about you, stop being so self centered

[Anonymous No.13763526]

>>13763401
>literally no one gives a fuck about you
This. Just got for it, man. For the full experience, do breakfast. Grab a physical (real) newspaper, sit outside and have a cigarette. In a few years, this might draw odd looks, so do it while you can.

[Anonymous No.13763531]

>>13758616
I'll join you for dinner if you're in Toronto anon.

[Anonymous No.13763535]

>>13763526
>have a cigarette.
Either white trash or a fedora tipper who thinks it makes him look cool, either way cringe as fuck.

[Anonymous No.13763548]

Can't believe there aren't restaurants for singles yet. That's where the trend is going.

[Anonymous No.13763559]

>>13763548
https://www.theinfatuation.com/chicago/guides/dining-solo-chicago-restaurants

[Anonymous No.13763570]

This is how my old, ultra-black neighbor Carolyn would have said "I need a piece of bread."
>I need a piece of brood

[Anonymous No.13763631]

>>13758616
Anywhere you fucking want. You think too much.

[Anonymous No.13763635]

>>13758625
this. but if you live in a city like SF any popular restaurant is always going to be packed and you're going to be doomed to the bar forever.

[Anonymous No.13763639]

>>13763635
also the nightmare situation for a single diner is a packed restaurant that only has communal tables.

[Anonymous No.13763641]

>>13763535
>Either white trash or a fedora tipper who thinks it makes him look cool
None of the above. I did it 'cause I liked it.
>either way cringe as fuck.
>>>/reddit/
dilate, seethe, cope, choose whatever silly buzzword you like and then kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.13763642]

>>13758791
>>13758791
>'why don't you come eat inside instead of in the parking lot where it is cold'.
Because I have crippling arthritis in my legs you wench. Now give me a free big mac.

[Anonymous No.13763676]

>>13758971
lmao how fat?

[Anonymous No.13763863]

>>13758625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ7CNUuoe3E

[Anonymous No.13763864]

>>13758616
>or do you just go get mcdonalds out of anxiety and embarassment instead?
yup

[Anonymous No.13763874]

>>13762311
kek

[Anonymous No.13763876]

I have pretty strong social anxiety, and I will wake up thinking about how others view me, and will limit my interactions greatly based on percievrd fears. I sometimes thing I have some sort of disorder, but still I find nothing wrong with eating alone. Especially if it is a vacant restaurant, or shitty buffet.

[Anonymous No.13764603]

>>13760045
good lord

[Anonymous No.13764610]

>>13763876
because it is transactional in nature and you foolishly think money protects you

[Anonymous No.13764648]

>>13758625
I only get a table while alone if I'm doing one of my business trip feasts on the company credit card. I feel bad taking up too much real estate with a huge spread at the bar.

[Anonymous No.13766002]

>>13762174
Yeah lol unless you look like a good critic

[Anonymous No.13767603]

Bring a notebook and pretend you are a critic

[Anonymous No.13768645]

>>13767603
>Bring a notebook and pretend you are a critic

I walked into one restaurant with a clipboard and some interesting math problems on it. The waitress took one look at me and thought I was the health inspector.

The next time I walked into the same restaurant, I had my clipboard with a magazine clipped in it that I was reading. That time they thought I was a salesman.

A few weeks later, I was talking to one woman who used to own a local restaurant. She said that she always told her employees that whenever anyone walked in with a clipboard, to immediately get busy cleaning.

[Anonymous No.13770012]

>>13758616
i just go to some dark corner to eat alone.

[Anonymous No.13770092]

>>13758713
Fuck off normie

[Anonymous No.13770106]

>>13758616
Have you people literally never traveled alone?
Do you bring mommy to hold your hand?
God damn half the places I go are alone for business. What do you starve yourself unless your mom makes airplane noises with your spoon?

[Anonymous No.13770367]

I can't keep friends because I feel like a huge bother to them. I make some at first then message them about hanging out and when they turn me down two or three separate times for different reasons I can't ever message them again because I'm afraid to be that guy who can't take a hint. Thus we drift apart.

Otherwise they mostly want to go out to some loud as fuck bar and chug beer while on their phone or screaming incoherently with each other over the unts unts unts unts. I don't see them enjoying it and I have no idea how to entertain myself when I can't hear anything nor speak to anyone. It's basically just downing beer and browsing the phone.

[Anonymous No.13770856]

>>13760045
Ok, i lost...

[Anonymous No.13771375]

Try out a communal table if they have one.

[Anonymous No.13771399]

Go in and get a seat for one/sit at the bar

[Anonymous No.13771402]

>guy who I didn't talk to in 2 months wants to eat out tomorrow and also invited this one guy I hate being around
I often eat at restaurants alone because it's comfy. If you go there during slower hours, you could read something or chat up one of the waitresses. They usually also offer you free tea or coffee.

[Anonymous No.13771434]

>restaurant only seats 14 people at a time
>no bar seating
>reservations must be made 2 months in advance
>restaurant forces you to pair up with a party of 3 to maximize seating

[Anonymous No.13772171]

I go out to lunch by myself pretty often. I'll usually go to a nice poke or ramen place and it doesn't feel weird at all to eat alone there.
Asian places tend to have more of a comfortable mood for eating alone where I'm from, alongside a select few Italian places where it's not uncommon for local Italian people to come and eat by themselves. I think it's because in most Asian countries eating out by yourself is more of a thing than in the west.
I probably wouldn't go to a big family-friendly or excessively fancy restaurant alone, feels less suited for it and I'd get annoyed by loud people or children seated near me.

[Anonymous No.13772204]

>>13758759
based

[Anonymous No.13772233]

>>13758616
I take a table for two if there’s no bar. I don’t need to associate myself with others to justify my existence. I’m a free man. I feel no shame or embarrassment if I eat alone or go to a movie alone or even sit at a bar and have a few drinks. Fuck it.

[Anonymous No.13773701]

>>13771399
>He comes on here everyday.
Fucking SAD.