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[buzzburbank]

I have a very valuable dining hall (40 masterwork tables/chairs and designated as a meeting hall) yet my little bearded bastards insist on eating and drinking in my food piles. I've tried designating the food piles as restricted traffic areas, but they still come in and eat their meals in the storage rooms.

Is there a way to force my minions to eat in the lovely dining room I've made for them? Do I have to assign a chair and table to each individual dwarf in order to get them to eat in the one room I want them to?

[Number4]

Burrows?

[gomwon]

I think that if your piles are too far from the dining room, they will not bother going there. However, i do not know much of the game mechanics, but that is what i have noticed.

[Lectorog]

Dining hall is next to stockpile is next to kitchen area is next to farms.

If you didn't understand that, just put all of your food-related processes close together. This makes it work as well as possible.

[Aspgren]

I set my dining rooms as meeting halls.

 I think this makes people eat in them more often.. or it just appears that way because idlers hang out?

[AutomataKittay]

My dining rooms tend to be also the meeting zone, and have food and drink stocks WITHIN it, if I can help it. I believe that would help, however some dwarves just don't seem to be inclined to socialized and hide out, so it might be personality thing?

[Tharwen]

Dwarves never drink at a table. They drink straight from the barrel and absorb the rest in their beards so they can finish it later. That's why they take several weeks to die of thirst.

[Girlinhat]

1) Burrows, if they're assigned to a burrow outside the dining hall, they'll never enter it.
2) Drinking is done at the barrels, this is normal.
3) You don't have to assign anything.  Building the chair and table will cause them to eat there.  Making it a room allows them to get happy thoughts from the value.  Making it a meeting hall allows them to idle there and throw parties.