Fictional
The Reservation Under the Name 'Table'
A booking arrives with one small complication: it is for the furniture.
The unofficial waiting room
A little table gossip.
Stories from the restaurant queue, where everyone is hungry, nobody knows whose turn it is, and the person at the front has just remembered one more thing.
Read the stories Mostly fictional
Somewhere, someone is asking if this is the queue.A visual aid
The queue has a plot.
There is a beginning, a middle, and a moment where someone says, “Sorry, was that my number?” There is a server holding three tickets, a customer pretending not to be in a hurry, and a table that has somehow acquired a fourth opinion. We are here for all of it.
Fresh from the pass
Recent stories
Sent in by a reader
The Side of Sauce
A customer orders sauce on the side and is very specific about which side.
Fictional
The Quiet Table
A table requests somewhere quiet, then discovers the quietest place is beside the kitchen.
Fictional
The Extra Chair
A customer takes an extra chair, and the chair has a surprisingly full evening.
The advice counter
Questions nobody asked quietly
One serious thing
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