{"id":1240,"date":"2011-10-18T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-10-18T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:37:38","slug":"never-dine-out-alone-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/18\/never-dine-out-alone-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Never dine out alone again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers arriving alone at a Penarth restaurant will soon be able to opt to sit with a group of complete strangers at an eight-person \u201ccommunal table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Already popular <a href=\"http:\/\/gosanfrancisco.about.com\/b\/2011\/05\/08\/communal-tables-in-san-francisco.htm\">in the US<\/a>, communal dining aims to make eating out more attractive to solo diners \u2013 although it remains to be seen whether reserved Brits will take to it as readily as their New York counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only by trying that we\u2019ll find out\u201d, admits <a href=\"http:\/\/pier64.co.uk\">Pier64<\/a>\u2019s Francis Dupuy. \u201cBut what\u2019s the difference between that and when young people at school get together at the table? Maybe [for people dining alone] there\u2019s a way to make things more welcoming, and not scary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dupuy stresses that the object isn\u2019t matchmaking, but, if something does happen then, \u201cWell then we can\u2019t help that\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers arriving alone at a Penarth restaurant will soon be able to opt to sit with a group of complete strangers at an eight-person \u201ccommunal table\u201d. 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