/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15900857]

>"Yes ma'am, a table for 1 please."
Why are normies so self conscious about eating by themselves in public?

[Anonymous No.15900863]

who goes to a restaurant to eat alone?

[Anonymous No.15900866]

>>15900863
Do you even Loaf?

[Anonymous No.15900906]

>>15900863
I do. Done stuff from tiny eateries to franchises like Applebee or local fine restaurants at rush hour. The first time is the worst, but past that, you realize people just don't care. The only thing I hate is when they mess up your order. Waitstaff don't know what to do when the only person at the table has a fucked-up order.

[Anonymous No.15900913]

>>15900857
A lot of places aren't laid out with single seaters in mind

[Anonymous No.15900914]

>>15900906
its not about caring what others think of you, but literally why waste the time and money going to a proper restaurant alone

[Anonymous No.15900916]

>>15900914
For the atmosphere

[Anonymous No.15900929]

>>15900914
Restaurant food can be good. I don't see why people care that much about going into some quiet/small places for lunch alone but I guess it would be more awkward at places filled with families.

[Anonymous No.15900931]

>sitting in a restaurant talking to somebody who clearly doesn't want to be standing there

feels too much like an awkward date

[Anonymous No.15900948]

>>15900857
i was going to go eat alone somewhere on my off day this week, but then i remembered how much fun it is to sit with a friend or coworker and order a couple of things, try them, discuss what we do and don't like, get drunk and split the bill.
unless i had a job that gave an hour lunch or something, i can't really imagine going to eat alone, there's no real appeal.

[Anonymous No.15900981]

>>15900857
Why are you complaining about normies but self-identifying your habits as Chadly? As for the topic of the thread I think it's likely just judgmental people assuming that everyone's watching them the same way they do to everyone else. People are also weird about going to movies alone and I've never understood it.

[Anonymous No.15901061]

>>15900948
You reek of normalfaggotry.

[Anonymous No.15901098]

>>15901061
yeah well at least he has sex

[Anonymous No.15901109]

>>15901098
So do rats.

[Anonymous No.15901120]

>>15901109
youre worse than rats lmao

[Anonymous No.15901143]

>>15901061
i keep my degeneracy on /int/

[Anonymous No.15901150]

>>15900857
They're not "self-conscious". They just usually happen to be with other people, unlike losers like you.

[Anonymous No.15901162]

>>15900857
Singles shouldn't be allowed to dine in a restaurant.

[Anonymous No.15901163]

Sitting alone at the diner is based

[Anonymous No.15901172]

>>15900857
>Why are normies so self conscious about eating by themselves in public?
They aren't? the majority of people doing this are doing it on the way to something or from something.

[Anonymous No.15901174]

>>15901109
Rats are hella cute though

[Anonymous No.15901231]

>>15900857
I enjoy going into themed family restaurants for kids by myself dressed ominously and ordering from the kids meal. Just sitting there eating dinosaur nuggets with ketchup silently glaring at the female children. I'm 45 so it's very creepy. Love it.

[Anonymous No.15901261]

i love going to restaurants alone
i'm not even a friendless loser it's just nice to go have a meal by yourself and just order whatever the fuck you want without having to to consider anyone else's feeling about appetizers or whatever

[Anonymous No.15901300]

>>15901231
Don't be a larping fag, you've never done this in your life.

[Anonymous No.15901328]

>>15901300
Doing it would be larping. Just saying he has done it would be telling a fib.

[Anonymous No.15901334]

>>15901300
Lying on the internet isn't LARPing, newfag.

[Anonymous No.15901336]

unless you look like you're travelling on business or some extenuating circumstance people absolutely do notice don't fool yourself, it's just that no one says anything. you're basically viewed as a potential unknown threat instinctively and if people say they don't notice they're lying or braindead retards

[Anonymous No.15901337]

I used to go to a Japanese place near one of the big parks in Houston after a run. They would always stick me in the back lmao

[Anonymous No.15901358]

>>15900857
Sitting by myself at the bar and ordering a meal and a cocktail is a pretty nice experience ngl I’ve been doing it for lunch recently

[Anonymous No.15901364]

>>15901336
schizo

[Anonymous No.15901643]

>>15900914
Do you not got to restaurants to enjoy their food?

[Anonymous No.15902152]

>>15901061
Someone doesn't cook

[Anonymous No.15902194]

>>15901336
Take your meds retard.

[Anonymous No.15902208]

>>15901336
>Eating alone indicates you're a threat to every other patron in the restaurant
The only place I could see someone thinking this is America. But even I live in Texas and it's not uncommon to see someone eat by themselves, especially during lunch hours.

How paranoid do you have to be to think something so dramatic?

[Anonymous No.15902230]

I missing getting off work and going to my favorite restaurant cause it gets close to empty and very quiet, which makes eating there nice and comfy. I can get lost in my thoughts while enjoying good food but thanks to this stupid covid shit, in door dining there is not allowed for the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous No.15902236]

>>15902208

Kek how can you see without power?

Snow:1
Texico:0

[Anonymous No.15902242]

>>15902208
I'd imagine on a level that they may be deficient on some required medication

[Anonymous No.15902247]

>>15902236
have you been in a fucking coma?

[Anonymous No.15902257]

>>15902236
t. Great Plains rat

[Anonymous No.15902278]

>>15900916
That pic makes me feel like crying for some reason.

[Anonymous No.15902283]

I've noticed that in older, especially but not just European movies, characters will often visit diners or restaurants alone and it's treated like a fairly normal thing, so it's something that has changed over time.

There's some truth to what >>15901336 says, and it has to do with urbanization and the change from a generally high trust society to one of very low trust, along with the death of smaller town communities.
The days of going to a place you heard has good food, becoming friends with the owner, maybe striking up a conversation with other people enjoying their day are mostly if not completely over.

[Anonymous No.15902303]

If you really hate people so much then why would you want to eat in a restaurant surrounded by people? That makes no sense to me. I'd rather get food and eat it in my car or alone at home. I hate being looked at by strangers, I hate hearing their voices, I hate hearing and seeing other people have fun.

[Anonymous No.15902309]

>>15900929
You can just order it for takeout.

[Anonymous No.15902349]

One of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life was a man in his 50s eating alone at a Carls Jr. Back when people would wait in line for Black Friday I went to go pickup food for my friends so we could keep our spot in line.

An old man, with no family that cared about him on the day of Thanksgiving. How many of us are barreling towards that future, I wonder.

[Anonymous No.15902350]

>>15902303
I don't hate people. Maybe I just want to enjoy some time at a restaurant without having to worry about dinner conversation, and I can't ambience or time away from home with takeout.

[Anonymous No.15902402]

>>15902350
I have eaten alone at parks or by the water, so I know what you mean about wanting to get out. But I would never purposely go to a place with a lot of strangers in it.

[Anonymous No.15902435]

>>15900857
i like going to korean/jap bbq and getting all you can eat menu and the proceeding to eat and drink twice as much as the couples around me and generally be more relaxed and enjoy myself more than the awkward people around me practicing restraint.

[Anonymous No.15902445]

>>15901143
>a filthy redd/int/fag
figures

[Anonymous No.15902446]

>>15902402
Why do strangers at a restaurant suddenly matter? They're on the roads, the buses, the grocery stores etc. And not a single one of them gives a shit about me. If I go into a restaurant, why would that suddenly change?

[Anonymous No.15902479]

>>15900981
Solo movie experience is comfy af. Used to go to one that always had old people, so everyone was quiet and behaved.

[Anonymous No.15902488]

>>15902479
Old people breathe too heavily and cough a lot.

[Anonymous No.15902495]

>>15902488
Not in my experience. Maybe your area's geriatrics are just weak.

[Anonymous No.15902552]

just cook stuff yourself 4head

[Anonymous No.15902570]

>>15900857
I did that once after work cause I was starving from missing lunch and breakfast.
It was okay, few people gave a look but mostly no one cared.
I left a bad tip just because :^)

[Anonymous No.15902611]

I like to get stoned and go to local bar and eat junkfood

[Anonymous No.15902622]

>>15900857
I’ll go to a restaurant alone while I’m travelling for work. Don’t know why people are so self conscious about it

[Anonymous No.15902645]

>>15900857
why not just go to a buffet? it's the same shit except way better and you don't have to wait 45 minutes for your meal.

[Anonymous No.15902693]

>>15900863
I do. Having other people cook food for you better than you ever could and having them literally clean up after you is great, I love treating myself to it every once in a while. Why would I want to ruin this by having to talk with someone and distract me?

[Anonymous No.15902709]

>>15902208
I think you're projecting paranoia into the extent that I put stock into it. I don't sit there and dwell on it and go "god damn this fucking loser what a fag probably gonna shoot up the place lol". I'm just saying I absolutely 100% notice it instinctively. I make zero effort to do it intentionally. It's instinctive, it's a survival trait, I make note of it, I continue on. And yeah if it's a lunch at some podunk diner is different from dinner service.
>>15902283
You put it better than me because I do notice as I've moved to a completely small town homogenous region I don't do this anymore. In a 2 million metro area low trust one my mind would home in on people by themselves in settings where it's not normal

[Anonymous No.15902776]

>>15902479
I used to have a nice quiet theater but now I have to go to the ones where they actively throw out noisy people. I saw posts about clapping for years and years but never saw it IRL until a few years ago when it seemed like overnight every movie was loud teenagers and retards clapping in the middle of the damn movie.

[Anonymous No.15902783]

>>15902709
eh, this might be true for you anon as it sounds like you have some situational awareness, but most people are to self absorbed and focused on their internal monologue to notice a single person in a restaurant.

Also in modern society people are more isolated. It's not an uncommon thing to see more people eating alone, when I go to a restaurant I usually notice at least a couple other people eating by themselves, naturally nobody really pays attention.

I think this might also be different depending on where you live ( I don't live in the states) and what kind of restaurant it is. Restaurants with a kind of urban, uptown vibe expect individual people, maybe that's different for family diners but that's largely a thing of the past, at least where i'm from.

[Anonymous No.15902801]

>>15900863
I travel a lot, not gonna go for a diet of coke and pringles thank you.

[Anonymous No.15902812]

>>15902645
There's a nice buffet near my house that I occasionally go to alone. There was another that I wanted to try but C19 fucked that place up.

[Anonymous No.15902835]

>>15902776
Sorry to hear that, anon. Hope you find another soon.

[Anonymous No.15902842]

>>15900914
You go to a restaurant to eat food.

[Anonymous No.15903280]

>>15900916
>go to Applebee's alone
>tell them it's your birthday
Do they still actually come out at sing at you?

[Anonymous No.15903345]

>>15900857
I had no idea that there was any sort of stigma or shame associated with eating or going to a movie theater or traveling or working out alone until the internet told me and I still don't believe it. It's all just psyops from the kind of people that make "virgin walk" memes.

>>15900914
If what you mean by "proper" is what I think it does, I pretty much never went to those ever even pre-covid unless I was dragged there by others or there was a special event.

>>15901163
Diners are super comfy and there's a reason why there's bar seating.

[Anonymous No.15903355]

>>15900857
Normies can't imagine doing anything by themselves. They're terrified of being alone with their thoughts.

[Anonymous No.15903361]

>>15900857
legit one of the best parts of quarantine is being able to get takeout and eat alone without a bunch of people

[Anonymous No.15903366]

>>15900857
surprise, most people are pussies

[Anonymous No.15903706]

I work away for a good bit of the year and love eating alone. I miss it.

[Anonymous No.15903710]

>>15900914
To eat, and charge my employer for the pleasure.

[Anonymous No.15903724]

>>15902309
>letting your food get cold instead of eating it fresh from the kitchen

ngmi

[Anonymous No.15903783]

At launch all restaurants here are full of people eating alone. Is this another American thing?

[Anonymous No.15903805]

>>15903783
I think so.

[Anonymous No.15903824]

>>15902309
>>15903724

>not taking advantage of free refills on beverages and drinking a gallon of iced tea with your lunch

Definitely ngmi

[Anonymous No.15903874]

>>15900863
im 26 and never had a gf

[Anonymous No.15903877]

>>15900914
Because my employer pays for up to £50 of food a day when im working away

[Anonymous No.15903887]

>>15903874
I am 28 and never had a gf

[Anonymous No.15903897]

>>15903280
They apologize

[Anonymous No.15903898]

>>15900863
I do a bit of light travel for work (usually 4-5 hours from home). I'm not cooking on top of that when I get home. I'm gonna have dinner while I'm out.

[Anonymous No.15903929]

>>15903874
>>15903887
i'm 21 and i had a gf and a bf

[Anonymous No.15903978]

>>15900914
What do you mean? Why not?
To get good food that you don't have to prepare for yourself. Why else would anybody go to a restaurant?

[Anonymous No.15904004]

>>15902801
Eating out while traveling is one thing. I also like to grab something from a deli or fast food place when on the run, but if you are at home, not traveling or anything, just going out for dinner by yourself? That is indeed strange.

[Anonymous No.15904016]

>>15904004
It's the perk of not being able to give any less fucks of what others think of me eating in a restaurant alone, I guess.
Not that it happens all that often, especially not nowadays, but from time to time I liked to visit this one place because the food was good.

[Anonymous No.15904021]

>>15904004
>t.normie

[Anonymous No.15904049]

>>15904021
Of course I'm a normie, what did you expect? If you lurk on a mainstream site like 4chan without being a normie you might aswell kill yourself right away.

[Anonymous No.15904065]

>>15900857
Go to a catcafé, you'll never feels alone.

[Anonymous No.15904081]

>>15900913
Why is that my problem?

[Anonymous No.15904084]

>>15900863
The fuck do you do when you’re traveling?

[Anonymous No.15904091]

>>15902303
I hate snakes, but I still find them interesting enough to visit the reptile house at the zoo.

[Anonymous No.15904218]

>>15904065
I've actually been to one, it's nothing like the pictures. Primarily because it reeks of cat piss which is not conveyed in the pictures. Like, really bad. Another problem is that all the clientele except for you are Asian girls aged 16 and younger, which makes you feel kind of weird.

[Anonymous No.15904222]

>>15900857
>get absolutely ripped
>make sure to be clean and well dressed
>go to finest dining establishment
>get a table for one
>order off the kids menu
>ask for a silly straw in a small cup of bangs root beer
>put on a bib
>eat everything without a utensil
>pay and leave
>avoid women because of cooties

[Anonymous No.15904232]

>>15900863
I do

[Anonymous No.15904268]

>>15903280
>>15900916
I've worked in cracker barrel, I assume most of these places are the same. Nothing is fresh or even prepared by the staff, it's all frozen and pre portioned, reheated trash
There are good local restaurants with fresh ingredients just about anywhere, so why do people go to these shitty chains?

[Anonymous No.15904298]

When I was younger, I went to a lot of debate tournaments around the country by myself and often ate alone at nice restuaraunts. I was always either about to go or coming back from rounds, so I was in a 3 piece suit. I'd always read some philosophy book or equally pretentious literature, and the wait staff often took turns meeting me and asking me about what I was reading. Multiple times I was offered free desserts and appetizers because they were so enamored, but in hindsight, they might have at first thought that my date didn't show up.

[Anonymous No.15904353]

>>15900857
Because going to a restaurant is a social activity. I'm not actually going for the food, I'm going because I want to do something with my friends/family/whoever. The food is just an excuse for meeting up. Same reason I'd go to bars with friends despite not drinking.

If there's no social component to it, I'd much prefer to just stay home and cook something myself.

[Anonymous No.15904382]

>>15902783
>focused on their internal monologue
What does that even mean? Are they a ""thinker"?

[Anonymous No.15904399]

>>15903280
they rub your back and try to make you feel better

[Anonymous No.15904410]

>>15900948
>splitting the bill
Outted yourself as a woman

[Anonymous No.15904448]

I eat alone all the time at restaurants because I am alone

[Anonymous No.15904532]

>>15900863

>That place looks nice
>Girlfriend is busy and I don't want to leave the house if I go home, I'll just stop and see what they got


It's that easy what the fuck bro? Enjoy missing half of your life because of your codependency tard

[Anonymous No.15904557]

>>15900857
I like going to restaurants alone, i also like to watch people around me eating

But I realized once that it makes me look like a fucking loser, but in reality I just like people watching

[Anonymous No.15904568]

>>15904532
THIS!
I found some of the best restaurants this way. when you don't have to get consent to try a place you will be surprised at what you find.

[Anonymous No.15904579]

>>15904557
>But I realized once that it makes me look like a fucking loser, but in reality I just like people watching
Yeah if it was me you were looking at I might become paranoid and confront you
t.schizo

[Anonymous No.15904622]

>>15904065
>>15904218
I've been to more than one, the experience ranges from Cat Zone (rare and only if you have cat treats) to watching cats sleep (much more common)

[Anonymous No.15904641]

>>15900857
Obligatory Steve Martin for this thread:
https://youtu.be/kQ7CNUuoe3E
But anyways, I used to dine solo all the time. It's what you do when on the road with an expense account.

[Anonymous No.15904653]

Why do so many of you fucks need someone to hold your hand just to go eat. Cut the cord already.

[Anonymous No.15904752]

>>15904382
it means the thoughts going on in an average person head. most people have an internal spew of thoughts like bubbles in their head about every day life, some people don't have an internal monologue at all.

This bubble is naturally focused on all the things going on in their life as most people are very self centered, but with the rise in social media people have become even more narcissitic and self absorbed than ever.

naturally your mere presence isn't going to break that bubble.

There are a subset of people that are hypersensitive to others but most of them are hypersensitive in terms of "what do people think of me" they're usually very self conscious and their social awareness only really goes in one direction, inward.

Note that this is different than the difference between an introvert and extrovert,I assume your the latter, though most people these days whether introverted or extroverted tend to be very narcissitic and self absorbed.

naturally as an extrovert your going to see a restaurant as a social affair, you may even feel lost or alone in a large or crowded restaurant by yourself. Personally i'm an introvert so I prefer being by myself, a big crowd is better because I can disappear in to anonymity in the crowd. Neither one is better than the other and they are defined psychological traits, introverts and extroverts also tend not to understand each other, keep in mind that generally there are more extroverts than introverts in the world.

[Anonymous No.15904766]

>>15900857
I saw a cute girl eating out alone and didn't feel so bad anymore. Just enjoy your life man

[Anonymous No.15904778]

>>15901336

[Anonymous No.15904912]

>>15904752
Oh okay, guess that makes sense, I wasn't sure because it sounded like some stupid meme thing or something like that npc stuff. I have several different voices, but I don't tell anyone because I don't want to be told to see a doctor or whatever when I can manage it myself, no need for meds because that would more likely mess you up even more.

[Anonymous No.15904921]

>>15900863
social addict

[Anonymous No.15904927]

>>15902236
go back

[Anonymous No.15904935]

>>15904927
Seething texan

[Anonymous No.15904953]

>>15900857
I wouldn't care but I wouldn't see much point in going to a restaurant alone either, unless it's in the middle of a work day and I don't have time to go back home and get a proper meal.

[Anonymous No.15904962]

>>15900863
I did this a few weeks ago after just accepting that I'm a fucking loser with no friends. It was very refreshing and I will do it again.

[Anonymous No.15905154]

>>15904218
>all the clientele except for you are Asian girls aged 16 and younger
owo

[Anonymous No.15905159]

>>15900863
me

[Anonymous No.15905222]

>>15903929
based

[Anonymous No.15905583]

It's weird, I would never go to dinner alone but if I'm traveling for work I don't even think twice about it. A fellas gotta eat.

[Anonymous No.15905591]

>>15905583
Getting breakfast or lunch alone at a casual spot doesn't seem weird at all on the other hand

[Anonymous No.15905707]

>>15900857
I miss going out to restaurants with my mom.

[Anonymous No.15905735]

>>15900913
This

[Anonymous No.15906315]

>>15905735
how depressing that picture is.

[Anonymous No.15906337]

>>15906315
idk dude, it looks really comfy to me.

[Anonymous No.15906351]

>>15906337
Screen zombies are deeply depressing. All our science and technology, and it leads to this.

[Anonymous No.15906364]

>>15906315

[Anonymous No.15906383]

>>15902349
Based all of us

[Anonymous No.15906652]

>>15900863
incels

[Anonymous No.15906708]

>>15904218
>all the clientele except for you are Asian girls aged 16 and younger

Holy shit I'm on my way

[Anonymous No.15907105]

>>15900857
its a good thing. it means the jewish conditioning is breaking if people want to be in couples/groups.

[Anonymous No.15907123]

>>15900863
isn't the whole needing to eat with others a completely american phenomenon? i've seen plenty of people dining alone with no problem in other countries.

[Anonymous No.15907133]

>>15904222
Absolutely based.

[Anonymous No.15907143]

>>15904557
Literally no one cares about some dude eating by himself but they may have a problem with you staring at them.

[Anonymous No.15907177]

>>15902349
>An old man, with no family that cared about him on the day of Thanksgiving. How many of us are barreling towards that future, I wonder.

I ate my Christmas Eve Dinner at KFC even though my family was having a big dinner at the same time about 50 miles away.

[Anonymous No.15907190]

>>15903783

The restaurant next to my office has a community table. It is quite normal to see a number of people at it ranging from local cowboys up to the movers and shakers of the town.

[Anonymous No.15907208]

>>15907143
>Literally no one cares about some dude eating by himself but they may have a problem with you staring at them.

Not always.

I was sitting in a Chinese restaurant reading and minding my own business in Houston one night when I lived there when some asshole at the next table complained about it.

I just ignored the clueless twerp.

[Anonymous No.15907291]

>Why are normies so self conscious about eating by themselves in public?
Don't know.

I never knew other people were so retarded about it till recently when my mother-in-law was complaining that the family friend she usually ate dinner with was a cheapskate and only wanted to eat at shitholes like denny's because she is a poor.

I suggested she could always just go to a nice restaurant by herself and she reacted like I asked her to strip off her clothes and dance naked in the street.

I'm 54 and never once felt self conscious about eating alone.

I mean if your alone on a business trip or out during the day away from the office. what do you freaks do? starve? get something from mcdonalds and hide behind a building while you eat because someone might see you?

god damn you people are silly.

[Anonymous No.15907418]

when im having really good food id rather sit alone

[Anonymous No.15907453]

>>15900857

I'm so desensitized to eating alone in restaurants because I've worked in so many. I used to eat restaurant food all of the time; it's a very comforting and natural environment for me. Pre-COVID whenever I wanted to cheer myself up or celebrate by myself I'd go to a restaurant and enjoy a great meal alone, it's nice to be waited on.

It's kind of like how normies are afraid of going to the gym because they think they'll get judged, when in reality everyone is focusing on their own shit. Nobody cares what you're doing unless you're making an ass out of yourself or about to hurt someone/yourself.

[Anonymous No.15907560]

>>15900863
People that are both hungry and alone
I don't see the issue

[Anonymous No.15907591]

>>15902552
we don't have top quality ingredients and years of professional training and experience

anyone who says they can cook better than even a mid range restaurant is a liar, let alone a high end one.

[Anonymous No.15907600]

A better question is why the fuck do they stick there nose in my business and give us looks when I, a thirty something try to score with a high school freshman.

I am looking at you fucking McCormick and Schmick's

[Anonymous No.15908376]

>>15907591
idk about professional but i've been going through modernist cuisine by nathan myrhvold for about a year and my cooking skills are still getting better

[Anonymous No.15908429]

>>15900857
I eat alone when I travel for work. I usually don't go anywhere super nice but a late lunch somewhere casual, small dinner and drinks somewhere with a bar.
Enjoying an hour alone should not be difficult.
I'm not opposed to eating somewhere fancy, I just typically don't. I can expense a few decent meals and a few drinks just come out of the cash I bring with me.
I'd be paying out of pocket for the nice place and I don't really want to do that.
Aside from that, I eat breakfast alone all the time, for some reason people don't seem as weird about it.

[Anonymous No.15908512]

>>15907177
freak