Booth Seating

[Bobbert]

What is the best way to request a booth seat at a restaurant in Spanish? In American family-type restaurants, the host/hostess usually asks if you prefer a table or a booth, if they offer both.

The dictionary shows banco corrido, but Google Image Search usually shows long-table seating for banco corrido. I’m am referring to the type of seating in the link below.

I’m not asking for the word for any specific country, so any input is appreciated.

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https://www.leadmarketingbusiness.co...taurant-booth/

[aleCcowaN]

En la Argentina no les conozco un nombre específico. Al espacio yo lo llamo (y siempre lo he oído llamar) box. El box puede tener bancos (duros, de madera) o butacones (tapizados y acolchados, como los de tu imagen).

Los de madera me traen recuerdos de las salchichas con chucrut (sauerkraut) y la cerveza tirada de mi adolescencia. <Homer>Mmmnn!!</Homer>

[poli]

You may find booth seating rare many countries outside of the U.S. and Canada

[Bobbert]

Thank you for your input, poli. I agree that most Spanish-speaking countries probably don’t offer booth seating.

Thank you for your input, aleCcowaN. It’s funny that you mention “chucrut.” That’s a word I heard and put to memory just a few months ago when I heard it on YouTube’s “Preguntas Fáciles.” I learn a lot of new and varied vocabulary from Tomi Munaretto’s videos because he plays knowledge games with the average person on the street.

I also watch a lot of “Lucho Con La Gente” on YouTube. As you probably already know, Lucho Mellera is a humorist/comedian from Buenos Aires who interacts with the audience, and that again exposes me to a lot of vocabulary that an average person uses. His videos hold my interest because he is so quick-witted and entertaining when he gives advice or makes witty suggestions about how an audience member can solve his/her particular challenge.

[aleCcowaN]

Never heard of Lucho Mellera. I don't watch nor hear local media, network nor social, but printed press.

I only remember 4 places with that kind of seating, all of them previous to 1985, all got broken, as far as I know, because it is a bad, rigid economic formula. Here there's no wooden, plastic, tarr construction, unless you progressed from a refrigerator box dwelling to a shanty, so there's no fire marshall to tell you that you cannot acommodate 67 guests in less than a thousand square feet, because things hardly catch fire. Besides, the country wasn't founded by Puritans, so nobody told us honest people couldn't have drapings, curtains and screens, so we hadn't to build our houses a hundred feet from each other to avoid peeping Toms and make the houses huge to make sure the neighbours notice our divinely graciously granted prosperity.

Here huge is not synonym of classy or rich. here, in fact, Trumpesque style and proportions are the epítome of tacky. The local philosophy is don't draw attention to yourself, as starlets and harlots do. So booth seating is unpractical, and showy if more than basic.

I looked for the term in order to reply here and found manufacturers offering "sillones booth" and designers showing tasteful use of this feature, all developed in quality materials but modest proportions. So I can say locally there's now some tendency to accept this kind of things, but now I fortunately live in an area with little population, so I don't be seeing none of this soon.

The last time I sat in one of these booths was in 1993, in Los Angeles, in a three greasy spoon diner, where I took breakfast among cops who parked their cars near the windows, and eat hotcakes with sirup and black coffee and had the cultural experience. I would have paid tenfold not to be served. Drinking that mix of vanilla flavouring and shoe polish they call coffee there while seated on that sticky, slippery, plasticky upholstery was a degrading tourist experience in par with being fully searched by French border policemen looking for the drugs a Latin American must have being smuggling for sure.

[poli]

En la primera parte del siglo 20, unos restauranteros en el noreste del pais construyeron pequeños restaurantes prefabricados de metal. Eran baratos e imitaron la forma de comedores en los trenes. Los asientos imitaron el estilo de asientos los trenes (booth seats , y las salas eran largas y angostas. La comida era humilde, pero siempre había sopa del día, sandwiches, donuts, hamburguesas, panqueques, papas fritas, huevos, guisados y cafe sin limites. La mayoria de los diners eran y son patrocinados por griegos. Tienen poco de ver con el trumpismo. Aunque hay unos que agrandizaron confeccionado con marmol o marmol falso estilo trump, no he visto oro todavía. Por lo visto, tienen poco de ver con el puritanismo.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...ei=39#image=14

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

En México es un gabinete, y es un tipo de asiento que existe con frecuencia en restaurantes de comida rápida, pero hay muchos otros restaurantes que te ofrecen elegir cuando llegas: "¿Gabinete o mesa?" Como si el gabinete no tuviera mesa, pero por alguna razón que desconozco, la alternativa al gabinete no es la silla.

[Bobbert]

Thank you, AngelicaDeAlquezar.

Those are the words I will probably use the most because the host/hostess in most of the restaurants in my area are Mexican or Central American; but it's always fun to know what words are used in the rest of the Spanish-speaking world too, so I appreciate everyone's input.