What are you doing when you are at the table except for eating? Of course table got a lot of their functionality.

Lets name something people do at the dinner table, even though it's considered bad manners.

*Eating
*Discussion
*Chatting
*Drawing
*Studying
*Staring each other
*Play poker card
*Changing diaper
*Burp n etc.

Actually table have a good potential for enhancing face-to-face collaborations. They bounding each other, they make ideas come around when having discussion.