when you enter a restaurant ,there are all sorts of reasons why you get seated where you do,from balancing the workload of the staff to which "regulars" are coming in later for their favorite to do with your comfort or pleasure, inevitably someone is going to be seated at the traffic laden sites nearest the entrance or the table that is barely missed by the kitchen door as it flies open every twenty four seconds . of course, there are also those tables in the far flung corners of the dining room where shipping your meal via federal express would would seem an option