Jess Janz

a two-course meal and a couple glasses of wine, like, you will meet, you will observe a lot of characters.

They may or may not engage.

Like, anything can happen when you eat alone, and I'm, like, a big supporter of that.

And I think it's important, whether it's eating alone or otherwise, like, to put ourselves out of our comfort zone every once in a while and not have the safety blanket of other people and see what happens.

Thanks so much, David.

So nice to chat with you.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, I kind of go both ways.

I mean, my gut initial reaction is like, oh my gosh, that sounds so sad.

And then I kind of talk it back being like, okay, well, I eat alone a lot or if I'm traveling or like, you know, maybe they just caught a bunch of people on their way back from somewhere.

Like it's just a Tuesday night out and you're out of groceries.

Like they're, in and of itself, eating alone is not problematic.

But the fact that it's spiking so significantly is probably telling us something.

And I think part of that has to do with and when we think about like so much conversation around loneliness, too, that like I think we're not ritualizing regular things like just going out for dinner when it's not this like big Instagrammable thing.

We're not like getting together with people on a regular basis as much as we used to.

So, yeah, that's my initial.

It's upsetting.

I don't know.

Oh no.

Yeah, because I think about this a lot of like, we don't have spaces where it's okay to go alone.