So I am at the local BWW last night . . .

[steve dave]

One strategy is to text/email 15 of your friends immediately prior to entering the restaurant

This is a great strategy.  Not to make anyone think you have friends, because who gives a f^ck about that, but to make yourself feel good.  You will get a response about every 30 seconds and just keep the conversation going. 

[cireksu]

Spicy Garlic/Asian Zing FTW!!!
 

OMFG QFT

agree with fatty though.  Expensive.

[sonofdaxjones]

There are some great sadness/eating alone strategies in this thread. Definitely alcohol, sportscenter and texting allows for the lonely diner to act as if they are busy and "just taking a lunch break from so many friends" by waltzing into a restaurant alone. If you can get two of BWW's 22 oz.'rs down in the first ten minutes, you start having conversations with your buds in your head and therefore do not require human contact while waiting on wings, just sportscenter with CC.

One strategy is to text/email 15 of your friends immediately prior to entering the restaurant, and then leave your phone on high volume. Begin drinking heavily and include frequent outbursts (directed at no one in particular) like "GOD just leave me the frack alone!", "ooh I always knew she had a naughty side *chuckle*", and "is it too much for the boss to ask for 20 minutes without this BS!?".

Totally onboard with this strategy.  You sit down . . . look at phone (laugh), pop a couple of Texts to buddies, "ku sucks" . . . "MU looked good" (to my one MU buddy) . . . a couple of more . . . then wait for them to pile back in . . . . strike up conversations with bar keep . . . text a buddy to call you . . . can you hold my chair I gotta take this . . . oh I'll take Asian Zing and another beer, be right back . . . go talk to buddy about inane BS . . . return to seat and suddenly take great interest in games on TV . . .

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

One strategy is to text/email 15 of your friends immediately prior to entering the restaurant

This is a great strategy.  Not to make anyone think you have friends, because who gives a f^ck about that, but to make yourself feel good.  You will get a response about every 30 seconds and just keep the conversation going. 

I'll worry about other people thinking I have friends.   

Maybe I'm too weak-willed.

[Thin Blue Line]

If I remember correctly (the past is fuzzy, though), Last Chance was the first place to have buffalo wings in Manhattan.