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The 7 Types Of People You See At A Restaurant

You'll run into all of them sooner or later.

Maggie Cahill

Aug 28, 2018

University of Dayton

The 7 Types Of People You See At A Restaurant

Maggie Cahill

It's your birthday. Your anniversary. Your insert-celebration-here. It's just another Friday night, and you have decided that your kitchen is closed. So it's time to go out to eat. Where will you go? What will you eat? How will you choose? All important questions, but none are nearly as exciting as the one that has yet to be posed: Who will you see? You're not in your kitchen anymore. It's time to people-watch.

1. The foodie.

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Their necessities: phone camera, Instagram, trendy foods (like smoothie bowls, kombucha, and quinoa)

Preferred atmosphere: clean, simple, restored

In a word: aesthetic

2. The family.

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Their necessities: high chair(s), crayons, kids menu complete with word scrambles and a maze

Preferred atmosphere: affordable, comfortable, noisy

In a word: friendly

3. Those who lunch.

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Their necessities: iced tea with lemon, salad, gossip

Preferred atmosphere: fresh, cute, local

In a word: timeless

4. The couple.

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Their necessities: champagne, a dessert with two forks, dim lighting

Preferred atmosphere: romantic, private, elegant

In a word: charming

5. The group of teenagers.

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Their necessities: $20 bill, cell phone, car keys with too many key chains

Preferred atmosphere: cheap, convenient, familiar

In a word: freedom

6. The moms.

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Their necessities: bottle of wine, appetizers, pictures from Facebook for reference

Preferred atmosphere: chic, sophisticated, popular

In a word: reunion

7. The professionals.

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Their necessities: legal pad, blazer, negotiation

Preferred atmosphere: classy, polite, formal

In a word: business

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The 7 Types Of People You See At A Restaurant

You'll run into all of them sooner or later.

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1. The foodie.

2. The family.

3. Those who lunch.

4. The couple.

5. The group of teenagers.

6. The moms.

7. The professionals.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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