More and more new apartments are eliminating the dining room..  Many Millennials eat out, at their desk, on a coffee table (and in front of a video screen) , or at a eating bar and (in front of a video screen).  Jerome Synder’s new two luxury highrise apartment towers, the Vermont, at Wilshire and Vermont,do not offer residents a dining room.

Notice that in the one bedroom floor plan below, there is no dining room:

No Dining Room in the Wilshire Vermont One Bedroom.

In the Living Room Looking Toward the Kitchen Eating Bar in the Vermont One Bedroom

Instead, the dining room is replaced with an eating bar in the kitchen.