Research out of Cornell University suggests that diners order differently depending on where in a restaurant they’re seated.

Seated by a window or in high light, people ordered healthier foods.

Seated far from the front door, they avoided salads and were 73 percent more likely to eat dessert.

The closer they sat to the bar, the more they drank. As in, within two tables of the bar: an average of three more beers or mixed drinks per four-top than people seated farther away.

Sit by the TV and you’ll order more fried food, they found. Sit at a high bar table and you’ll order more salads and fewer desserts.

Brian Wansink at Cornell's Food and Brand Lab and author of the book that holds these findings, Slim by Design, isn't willing yet to be too prescriptive about what this all means. Until he is—I’m holding out for that high table by the window, across the room from the TV.

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