Do some restaurants really avoid seating solo diners, and if so, why would they do that?

The "solo diner penalty" is real. If a host quotes a two-hour wait for a half-empty room, it isn't a mistake—it's a polite rejection to protect a ruthless metric called RevPASH. Restaurants ope…

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