Originally Posted by
troyb
I'll take that one step further. I hate it when restaurants aren't busy, period. It's totally creepy to be the only diners (or one of just a few tables) in a restaurant. I've been known to walk in and walk right out if there aren't a decent number of tables filled. It has nothing to do with perceived quality of the food or service or anything like that, it's simply about heads in the establishment.
Man, if this bothered me I'd be in the McDonald's drive thru a lot.
It's usually kind of nice, actually, and it comes with the territory when eating late dinners.
Do agree, though, about clustering everyone in the same place.