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Every day, seemingly infinite hordes of young people continue to swipe their way to love—or at least some free shit. Tinder alone claims to be responsible for 1.3 million dates every week, and restaurants are looking for a way to better accommodate the surge and cash in.In an effort to provide more seating for the masses of bumbling singletons embarking on awkward first dates, restaurants have been ditching the dining tables, and are adding more tables for two and room at the bar, the Washington Post reports.Because most first dates set up through dating apps like Tinder are basically blind dates—based on nothing more than some witty banter and a flattering profile photo—people are ditching the long, drawn out dinner-and-a-movie dates and opting to get a quick round of drinks instead, which can break a restaurant's bottom line."We had ten tables, and a lot of those tables were for four. Every single table, almost every single night, was filled with couples," Washington, DC, restaurant owner Ashok Bajaj told the Post.When the restaurant needed a redesign, Bajaj switched out his booths for smaller tables, making it more profitable to accommodate the influx of couples looking to get to know each other over the course of a few hours.But the new onslaught of Tinder dates isn't completely screwing food and drink spots, of course, even if new couples often drink less and hog tables longer. Josh Phillips, a bar owner in DC's Shaw neighborhood, says Tinder is responsible for people showing up on what were historically slow nights—something he refers to as "Tinder Tuesdays."In any case, restaurants and bars should probably start hoping that Tinder's new threesome-finding feature catches on, because that'll mean more people anxiously slugging down drinks to prepare for their awkward, first date orgy.Read: You Can Pay $5 to Find Out If Your Significant Other Is Secretly Using Tinder
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