Any experiences approaching girls seated in restaurants?

[KJ Francis]

This seems to be an underrepresented type of game, but does anyone have any success stories from approaching girls seated in restaurants?

I went to grab some takeout and noticed peripherally that two girls were chatting in a booth. On the way out the door, one locked eyes with me. Sparks flew as I took my first and last ever glance at her face.

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Now in my mind for some reason I thought hypothetically next time I'm in a similar situation, I could ask one girl if her friend is single. She's a captive audience, so maybe it would help being a little extra social by involving the friend.

Would you guys open straight direct with a compliment?

I imagine doing it as you're on the way out, or in a sufficiently large place such that she's not going to feel the preemptive pressure of you possibly hanging in her viscinity should it go south.

If you're body rocking with a takeout bag and true time constraint - sounds sorta promising.

Any experiences? Thoughts?

 

[Atlas IV]

I'd say lean heavily into the time constraint.

After you grab your takeaway food, make eye contact again with your target, smile and go:
"Listen, I'm a bit of a hurry, I just noticed that you have really nice fashion sense (or whatever) and wanted to say hi. You guys aren't from around here, are you?"

Blah blah, soft close, swap numbers, and excuse yourself.

It could be a cultural thing, but in my experience doing this, the friend often busies herself with her phone or steps away, allowing me to just focus on the target.

But to include her, a good one to ask is "so how do you guys know each other?" - then after they tell the story of how they met, make strong eye contact with target and go "isn't it amazing how sometimes you meet someone and you just feel instant chemistry with them, like you've known each other for years" (one of Gunwitch's "rainbow ruses" from SMMA).

 

[James D]

Opening line:

"American?"

 

[DarkKnight]

Opening line:

"American?"

Yeah indeed but I would pre-open at the very least otherwise they will get confused. But I too make these vague plausible deniability openers from time to time.

Irony is it barely matters what you use later on because you get used to the social pressure. Usually it is not the opener which is the issue but the social pressure you are willing to take and in how far you can calibrate if it were to go wrong.

i notice I am extremely easy with these things, but a month ago I had one incredibly hard opener. Everyone was sitting in a circle looking to eachother, all were strangers, and this girl kept checking me out. So I had to handle the social pressure of EVERYONE looking at me. it was hard to explain but I think this was one of the hardest approaches I had to do. But I handled it well, was not able to pull her, but after locking in with her the social pressure decreased.

 

[OldGuy]

Asking if I could join women sitting alone was my goto back in the dorm.

 

[KJ Francis]

"Listen, I'm a bit of a hurry, I just noticed that

nice, ok thanks! so yeah lean into time constraint to reduce the pressure of her being captive, but overall not really different than any other approach. I guess in the moment I thought it would be extra intrusive and perhaps a bit of a social faux-pas that could result in a knee-jerk rejection. but if you're clearly time constrained, it could compensate for that.

"isn't it amazing how sometimes you meet someone and you just feel instant chemistry with them, like you've known each other for years"

that is clever... on the surface about her friend, but with the strong eye contact obviously sub-communicating it about the two of you

Opening line:

"American?"

LOL touche. I may watch this movie tonight as inspiration.

Everyone was sitting in a circle looking to eachother, all were strangers,

that is ballsy as fuck. reminds me of a Ross Jeffries story... he saw a girl through a restaurant window and actually walked right in the restaurant to delivery a direct compliment opener.

Asking if I could join women sitting alone was my goto back in the dorm.

that's a good idea... could see it going well in mall food courts. happy christmas shopping everyone