Lets say a restaurant has 80 customers at a time during lunch. If you go in there by yourself what are the odds you will know someone? Now I realize that a lot depends on where you are, is it two doors down from your office and you eat there everyday or is it across town never been there before sort of thing. Maybe you know one to two on average. Now ask that same question when you take some else along with you, will your table be more likely to know someone else in the restaurant. Sure you will, if you take someone to lunch it is twice as likely that someone at your table will know someone else in the restaurant. Take two people and it is three times as likely.
Use the people you are dining with to meet new people, to get introductions, to network.
If you see someone you know at another table go say hello, chances are they are with someone you don’t know and they will be obliged to introduce you. Most of the time when people introduce someone they tell how they know them. Meet Suzy she’s my realtor, this is Bob we used to work together, and so on.
Also, most restaurants turn their tables two or three times during lunch. If you go sort of in the middle you will see twice as many people go through the restaurant as the tables turn increasing your chances of seeing someone you know and meeting someone new. The same principals apply for breakfast or dinner as well.
Who are you taking to lunch with today?
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