We’ve all heard about bed-and-breakfast places, but how about bed-and-dinners? The trendiest restaurants, according to Reuters, are those that offer beds as well as traditional chairs and tables. Two of the restaurants, B.E.D. and Duvet, are already open in New York City, where residents are able to do as the Romans did and indulge in a meal out while reclining. "You sort of lose the social borders and barriers with people if you’re lying together in bed, " noted one of the restaurant owners. Diners on the beds start out "very stiff," but "half an hour later they’re leaning back and within an hour people are lying all over the bed and on each other’s bellies." As a result of this news, conscientious mothers, who have spent most of their adult years warning their daughters about the volatile combination of boys, beds and dating, will lie awake, unable to sleep, in their own beds. The new bed theme restaurants will change the way we look at going out for dinner. For starters, half of us will be able to look at a bed loaded down with food and exclaim, "What a great spread!" The other half will see beyond the food and gasp, "What a great bedspread!" Dinner conversations will be less about comfort foods and more about comforter foods. "Doesn’t the steak go well with this blue chenille?" "Roast goose and a goose down comforter — what a perfect combination!" When the crime families on TV shows such as "The Sopranos" talk about "hitting the mattresses" on a particular evening, they will be sending out mixed messages. We won’t know if they’re preparing for a showdown between warring families, if they’re tired and going to bed early, or if they’re going out for dinner. Much to the chagrin of certain parents, their daughters’ dinner dates will show up at front doors wearing pajamas and carrying their favorite pillows. Theme-related foods on the bed-restaurant menus might include pigs-in-the-blankets, spring salads, Vietnamese noodle pillows, and any meat entree served over a bed of rice or angel-hair pasta. Appropriate back-ground music in the restaurants will be offered to diners. Expect to hear the Everly Brothers’ rendition of "Wake Up, Little Susie," "Good Night Sweetheart," "Bed of Roses" with Bon Jovi and, last but not least, Madonna’s "Bedtime Story." As with any new idea, the bed-and-dinner restaurants will have their drawbacks. A dinner at B.E.D. or Duvet would be a living nightmare for anyone reluctant to eat in front of strangers. More than that little piece of spinach stuck between two front teeth thing or the fear of dropping a single, sauce-covered strand of spaghetti on its way to one’s mouth, bed dining incidents might prove to be much more serious. Humans were not designed to eat while propped up on their elbows on a shaky innerspring mattress. Worse case scenarios might include drowning in a misplaced bowl of soup of suffocating in a large tossed salad. It will also be difficult to appear poised and confident on a first date when a complete stranger lying next to you decides to rest his head on your belly.