When the waiter finally lead you to your seat

I really do not care where I sit most of the time. Before the kids I used to like sitting in the booth to have more privacy with my hubby.. Now I sit where they seat me, but my husband and I do prefer like sitting facing the door or away from the kitchen etc. and we always face eachother instead of sitting next to eachother.

personally, i would always request for better seats. and in all the cases, my requests are fulfilled unless the seats i wanted are taken/reserved. hmm and if the place is crowded, usually, it would be hard to get nice seats. so reserve in advance.

Unless the table was in a very noisy section I would normally accept the one given. If I didn't like it for some reason, I would ask if "that table" (a vacant one) was available. As far as seating goes, I believe most women prefer to sit facing the centre of the room, rather than facing a wall. I know I do. If I am led to a seat facing a wall, I will walk to the other side of the table to sit, so that I am facing the centre of the room.

For me, I will normally ask the person(s) with me if the seats are ok. I don't usually have strong objections (or do I?) but I will voice out if I like some seats better. Usually, it is the people with me who are most fussy. :P As for whether I will change seats when my preferred one is available, I will see if I have already started eating. If nothing has been served or if I am just drinking, I may just change. There is a "danger" in this though. There was once when I did exactly that. However, even after I have informed the staff that my seat has been changed, they got the orders wrong. They didn't deliver my orders to my new table but sent them on to the old table. And people at the "old table" pretended that it was free food on the house while I was that being that poor thing waiting to be served.

Dear whyaskg, I never go to any restaurant of my own because I could not afford spend money there out of my packet. Of course I do go. In my office, whenever foreigners, local business people, whoever need to be entertained in restaurant I used to get an opportunity to go expensive restaurant where I enjoy well with company's money. Since I used to visit those restaurants often, I knew all the managers of the restaurants. Therefore, I used to get my favourite seats booked earlier. Therefore, I do not need to wait for my favourite seats as they have already been reserved for us.

Well, most of the time I will just take the seat assigned. Most of the time it's a restaurant that I don't have a favourite place to sit anyway. However, sometimes it also depends. if the restaurant is empty then if I prefer another more spacious table i will let the waiter know. If it's crowded then I try not to make things difficult for them. :) Recently I came across an interesting sign at Cafe cartel. It said near the door 'please feel free to sit anywhere'. I guess it's good cos it saves on the manpower to seat people, and interesting cos it takes the place where the sign 'please wait to be seated'.

we go to the same place all the time , we like a special seat and if its taken we pick our second choice , we also have a third choice , we almost always get one of these places if not well we just take what is offered , They play piped music there and I preffer to be away from the speakers , but it is a nice place and I enjoy the meals there xxx

If the restaurant is jam packed, we just take the seat of what the waiter gave us but we prefer at the far side of the restaurant to have our meal more serious without people walking around.

Better not to go to crowded hotels.

Depending on what restaurant or take out we go to, some waiters show you to your seats and we usually go with what they give us. If they don't have waiters then we choose wherever we want to sit.

At first I thought you were talking about the actual seats in which you and your party were to sit at at the table you were being taken to. I guess, If you told the hostess your preferred area of seating that would suffice and be acceptable as they took you to your seating area. However, I would not do this on the whim as they take you to your seating area, because you never want to mess with people who have control over your food. You never know what they could do with it. I know, I worked in food service. When they take you to a table it is not because that particular table is available, it all has to do with the amount of servers and people in the serving areas. If you prefer a place that is overcrowded than that is going to be bad for your server and possibly the service that you get. not to mention that if you prefer to sit in a place where they currently aren't putting servers, a server will have to go out of the way for you who prefers a special seating. Sometimes it's not a big deal but other times it can be a big deal as there is a method to how where hostess' seat you.

If i see a particular seat is available ,ill ask for that one.Or if im placed at a table i will switch places with my friend,etc.for their place.Im very particuler since im paying for this service and meals with it.

I would take any seat assigned

Friends,depend on different condition,but usually I just take the seat which assigned to me.

I do not think that it matters to me if I don't get a good seat at all. I am there to eat and that is all that matters in my opinion.

I prefer my own seating too

I usually take where they offer to seat me, unless they try to seat me at a dirty table, near the bathroom, or near the kitchen. And sometimes if I'm with a certain person who prefers tables, I will ask them not to sit us at a booth.

I think you mean which table they sit you at, right? Most of the time I am happy to sit where they put me. I believe that they seat their customers according to where they have enough waiters or waitresses. I believe they try to keep things even among their servers. If the restaurant is busy, than usually there isn't a choice. If the restaurant is not too busy and there is an option and it doesn't look like it would matter, I might say that I would prefer to sit somewhere else. When we are taken to the table, I do have a preference as to which chair I sit in. I usually like to sit in the chair where you can see whats going on in the restaurant. But, if someone sits in the chair that I would prefer, I let them have it. It isn't a big deal to me. I'm there to be with the people that are sitting with me anyway.

I am with you, if I saw a seat which is my preference, I will check with the service staff to see if it is reserve and can I have that particular seat.