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Table for one, please!

Photo: @nkeiruspeaks After a day a long day in the office, it is refreshing to go into a restaurant ready to eat an appetizer or small entree. It is an extra bonus for me to add a cocktail. Okay, so after sweeping up my briefcase and handbag off the metro I walk into a restaurant, and the hostess politely asks if I would like to sit at the bar. Without hesitation at all, I quickly respond, motioning my eyes at her, table for one and a Ginger Mojito, please! She smiles and says, I see you already know what you want. Next brings me to the point. •    Ask for what you want. •    Be comfortable within your skin. •    Horn your intuition. Restaurant service procedures are put in place for the customer to have the best, welcomed dining experience possible. In this case, I arrived at the restaurant one hour before closing, which was 80% empty. The hostess initial assumption was to sit me at the bar since I dined alone. However, with several bags i...