A person eating alone at restaurants might be a common sight.

It may even be sought

after, but some company is perhaps always nice, and it need not always be a human
being. Recently, Prakash Mallya, MD at Intel India, Sales and Marketing Group
stopped by at Trident, Bandra Kurla’s Italian specialty restaurant Botticino for a
meal. On seeing him alone, the hotel authorities placed a fishbowl on his table.
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The practice is not new at Botticino, a place that attracts a large business
clientele, who often end up eating alone. In a trend that’s peculiar to this
particular branch, as an inside joke, a male fish is provided as a companion for a
woman eating alone and vice-versa, a hotel spokesperson informed indianexpress.com.
To make it more intimate, the bowl also contains the name of the fish.

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Land in Mumbai, walk into the hotel restaurant for a quick meal. The hotel
staff come by to leave this on my table as company given I was eating alone. So
nice & thoughtful and something that’s never happened in all my travel thus far�!
#CustomerExperience pic.twitter.com/YCsL5riQWK

— Prakash Mallya (@PrakashMallya) August 7, 2019

This, however, is not the only hotel to do this, as someone replying to the tweet
pointed out. “They gave me one at
@ITCHotels when I said my room was too quiet,” she mentioned. This, however, is not
something ITC practices regularly. “There is no such corporate policy on the
subject. A few hotels may have done it as part of value addition for a guest