The diners were mostly very polite, and thanked us for making the dinner.
In a small restaurant in Buenos Aires, a couple tangos for the diners, pivoting and gliding to timeless melodies.
But there's a hitch: the electrical circuit has overloaded, and the power strip isn't working, causing momentary panic among the hungry diners.
So scary were the costumes worn by Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley that they had to eat meals in their dressing rooms, lest they alarm other diners in the MGM cafeteria.
The nearby diners were staring at them and muttering.
They built diners out of shiny stainless steel, and made brightly colored signs lit by neon gas.
In its absence diners focus on the visual cue of whether they are making any dent on the food on their plate to assess goal progress.
At the Market Street Cafe, there's an old-fashioned soda counter where diners can order the restaurant's specials: meat loaf and chicken pot pie, followed by apple or pecan pie.
One day gunmen walked into the restaurant and shot diners and staff at close range, spattering blood over the walls.
For $23.95, diners at La Hacienda de San Angel, a new restaurant at Walt Disney World, can have grilled tilapia with roasted corn, cactus leaves, and mango chutney.
It also advises diners to put a toilet roll in the freezer when they get home.
But diners who persist will find it served with a flourish, having been cooked secretly in the kitchen from a recipe bravely preserved in the attic.
At the front door, they wield electronic wands, scanning the evening's other diners for hidden weapons.
To test this idea, the researchers parked themselves at the door of the Stanford dining hall and handed out questionnaires about dating to diners, some as they entered and others as they left.
But in one experiment, diners giving a 'bottomless bowl' which automatically refilled with soup, ate 73 per cent more than those given normal bowls - and didn't even realise it.
They sat in a corner booth, away from other diners.
Out of 20 diners choosing the steak and mushroom pie over the vegetable quiche, 18 are men.
Their entrees arrived, and they ate together in silence in the windowless, paneled room, glancing around at the other diners.
