Shared Tables May Be the Way to Go

Re “Hate to Eat Alone? Try Shared Tables” (Aug. 27): They have been doing it for years--in Austria, Germany and England. My wife and I once shared a table with a couple in a hotel dining room in London. Imagine our surprise and delight when in the course of conversation it turned out that my relatives were their best friends.

On lonely business trips abroad, I always looked for a table to share.

HENRY BRUNELL

Chatsworth