Older diners will remember when Wagamama benches were a novelty and the hot chaos of Belgo, so what is making the loneliest generation bringing communal dining back? Hannah Twiggs explores why Gen Z are choosing to eat with strangers – and what it says about how they want to live now G en Z are accused of many things: that they’re chronically online, surgically attached to their phones, avoidant of eye contact, allergic to small talk. They are, we’re told, the loneliest generation, and