Eating Dairy and Meat at the Same Table

From Halachipedia
  1. It is forbidden for one person to eat meat and another person to eat dairy at the same table. [1] This also applies both to poultry and dairy.[2]
  2. It is permitted to leave a meat dish and a dairy dish next to one another on a serving table or the kitchen counter, from where people aren't eating.[3]
  3. It is permitted for one person to eat fish at the same table as someone eating meat. [4]
  4. It is only forbidden for one person to eat meat at the same table as someone eating dairy if both people are familiar with each other. For example, if a person is eating meat at a public table next to someone eating dairy and they don't know one another, it is permitted. [5]

Sources

  1. Mishna Chullin 103b, S"A YD 88:1. The concern of the Rabbis was that if a person was eating meat at the same table as someone eating dairy, they might come to exchange food and come to eat meat and dairy together.
  2. Mishna Chullin 104b, S"A YD 88:1
  3. S"A YD 88:1, Yalkut Yosef YD 88:2
  4. Yalkut Yosef YD 88:3. [Such is implied from Mishna Chullin 103b.]
  5. S"A YD 88:2, Yalkut Yosef YD 88:7