New Helsinki restaurant offers diners the option to all order individual takeaways

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For anyone fearing having to eat dinner alone if all their mates are busy, or for anyone just feeling a bit lonely and wants to make friends while having some good food, a new restaurant in Finland has got your back.

A new pop-up, created by American Express, called ‘Take In’ (get it?) in Helsinki hosts guests who have all ordered takeaways from roughly 20 different chains via the Wolt delivery food app which operates in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

Diners come in, open the app, and can chose a local restaurant for delivery and wait for their dish to arrive. While the restaurant has no kitchen, it does have a bar for drinks as well as waiting staff to bring food to and assist any confused diners.

While it might defeat the object of a lazy takeaway on the sofa in front of the TV, for those who are dining alone it can bring them together will fellow lone diners.

“We want to be a living room in the city,” Wolt’s Finland’s director told Monocle.

Another issue the venue might solve: when your partner/sibling/friends want Indian but you want a pizza? Well now, you can all go and order the delivery you want, without compromise, but still enjoying each other’s company.