Two people at a restaurant four-top: across, or kitty-corner?
Pet peeve time. I have noticed that when I visit a restaurant with a friend and we are led to a four-top table, the host or hostess often seats us next to each other, facing at right angles, rather than across, facing toward each other. I hate this. If I am eating at a table with one other person, I want to be ACROSS from that person so that I can eat and talk with them while facing in the same direction. If the other person is next to me, I have to keep turning my head to talk to them.
This seems extremely obvious to me, but so many restaurants try to force kitty-corner seating on me that I have to assume that SOMEBODY wants it this way. Why? Maybe if you are new lovers and simply cannot stand the extra 6 inches of distance that sitting across from each other would impose it would make sense. Otherwise, what is the benefit of not facing each other while you eat and talk and why do so many restaurants assume this preference? (They never ask.)
