Jessie Wang - “Table for One?”: Building a Culture of Solo Dining

In her thesis project “Table for One? Building a Culture of Solo Dining,” Jessie Wang explores how hospitality design can support the growing culture of solo dining through spatial systems, service design, and emotional experience. As an interior designer, product designer, and restaurant designer, Jessie has long been interested in how space shapes emotion and behavior. Over the past few years, she noticed a quiet but powerful cultural shift: more people were dining alone, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. This became the starting point for Jessie’s thesis. As more people embrace independence in everyday life, solo dining is evolving from a social discomfort into a new form of urban experience and personal ritual.