Is it appropriate to occupy seats in the canteen?

It is inappropriate to occupy seats in the canteen.

1. Students occupy seats in many ways. They use textbooks, schoolbags, water bottles, chopsticks, etc. as seat-occupying tools, and they also use stickers and place ridiculous objects to occupy seats.

2. As a special phenomenon on university campuses, seat occupation seems simple and ordinary, but to a certain extent it reflects the preemption problem in the allocation of all resources. As a public resource on campus, canteen seats are allocated spontaneously through students' seat-occupying behavior. Such preemption problems will also occur during use of private resources that do not have clear or clear allocation rules.

3. Students occupy seats to ensure their own consumption. This is students’ reaction to crowded rows with limited seats.

4. The essence of the problem of seat occupancy in the canteen is crowding. The congestion of seats leads to competition in consumption, which affects the utility of students beyond the congestion point rather than occupying seats.

Occupying seats in restaurants is generally divided into three situations

First, the owner is far from occupying seats.

This is a common type. The scene is: an empty dining table seat or table with schoolbags, clothes, books, water bottles, newspapers, empty dinner plates, soup bowls or other objects indicating the location. Something that has already been "registered".

If there is no owner around, then the owner may go to queue for food, recharge the meal card, or go to the bathroom, etc. Among them, most of them are waiting in line for food. Depending on what the owner has done, the length of time from occupying a seat to finally using the dining table varies.

Second, occupying a seat near the owner.

There are generally two types of scenes: A. There are two people sitting at the dining table, and items are placed on the other two seats; B. There is no one sitting at the dining table, but there are people sitting at the front, back, left or right tables. They placed the items on another dining table.

The items placed at this time are slightly different from the first type of seat-occupying items, generally including schoolbags, books, clothing and other items. The purpose of occupying a seat at this time is not to obtain priority use of the seat, but to enjoy a comfortable meal.

Third, various other non-mainstream seat occupiers fall into this category.

The most common ones are the waiting type after eating and the dawdling type after eating. Because it is not mainstream and the quantity is small, it is not noticed by everyone. Therefore, the strategy should be to be emotional, hold a plate full of food, stare with a pair of expectant eyes, and look eager to sit next to him. This should be able to get a seat, unless the student has a strong endurance.