{"id":1078,"date":"2016-01-06T01:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/what-you-look-like-may-determine-where-you-are-seated-in-a-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T01:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:46:48","slug":"what-you-look-like-may-determine-where-you-are-seated-in-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/what-you-look-like-may-determine-where-you-are-seated-in-a-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"What you look like may determine where you are seated in a restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Goodlooking\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA1LzExL2dvb2Rsb29raW5nLjkxMzc2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/c9308121\/aa8\/goodlooking.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=What+you+look+like+may+determine+where+you+are+seated+in+a+restaurant&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Frestaurant-seating-appearance%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Frestaurant-seating-appearance%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 If you&#8217;re lucky enough to get a window seat in a restaurant, it could be down to how you look, a new British documentary has claimed<\/p>\n<p>Channel 4&#8217;s new documentary <em>Tricks of the Restaurant Trade<\/em> found that visually unattractive diners in London restaurants were deliberately seated at the back of restaurants to keep them out of sight, while attractive looking diners were given prime seats.<\/p>\n<p>Producers on the documentary sent two models along to restaurants in London where they were \u2014 big surprise \u2014 treated to the best seats in the house. In fact, one waiter pulled out all the stops to squeeze models Charlotte and Toni at the bar. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/05\/restaurant-seating-appearance\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/restaurants\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Restaurants<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/lifestyle\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lifestyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/work-play\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Work Play<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/food\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Food<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/zZlMTjVHWc0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 If you&#8217;re lucky enough to get a window seat in a restaurant, it could be down to how you look, a new British documentary has claimed Channel 4&#8217;s new documentary Tricks of the Restaurant Trade found that visually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/what-you-look-like-may-determine-where-you-are-seated-in-a-restaurant\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,1,325,41,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-lifestyle","category-other","category-restaurants","category-uk","category-work-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}