They have even been known to get up from their community dining tables to participate in an impromptu electric slide.

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While upscale restaurants around the world struggle with how to handle the growing popularity of mobile phones at dining tables, Eva leaves it up to its customers to hand in their phones to the hostess who will then store them in baskets with their name on them and return them on the customers way out.

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They then proceed to a spacious art deco dining car, whose tables are set with linen tablecloths, fresh flowers and silver.

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For the next few days, the front line of this battle appears to have been drawn in British pubs, around its dining tables and on the streets of its cities.

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Since you won't be adding on, before you merge your households, everyone in your family should sit down to discuss what will be done with duplicate couches, dining room tables and other possessions.

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To your left, the dining area has a polished cement floor and wooden tables surrounded by comfy upholstered chairs.

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As a sport that was originally played as an after dinner game on the dining tables of 19th-century English homes, table tennis seems to have come full circle as a social activity.

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With its hanging Edison bulbs, 1960s plywood school chairs, custom light fixtures made out of milk crates and bottles, and reclaimed wood tables from a 1930s distillery, this gourmet dining hall is hoping to help revitalize the historic Broadway corridor by drawing in the hungry hipsters.

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And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.

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