{"id":5402,"date":"2026-09-30T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/solo-dining-in-st-louis-why-more-tables-are-set-for-one\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:07:28","slug":"solo-dining-in-st-louis-why-more-tables-are-set-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/solo-dining-in-st-louis-why-more-tables-are-set-for-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Dining In St. Louis: Why More Tables Are Set For One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 30, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Walk into a St. Louis restaurant on a weeknight, and you will likely spot a table set for one, phone propped against the water glass. Sometimes the screen shows a game highlight. Sometimes it is a video call with a parent back home or a friend three states away, both of them eating dinner together without sharing a zip code. That habit did not start with a marketing campaign. It grew out of two years when a video call was often the only way to share a meal with anyone outside<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisrestaurantreview.com\/solo-dining-in-st-louis-why-more-tables-are-set-for-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 30, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Walk into a St. Louis restaurant on a weeknight, and you will likely spot a table set for one, phone propped against the water glass. Sometimes the screen shows a game highlight&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}