Floating restaurants are really pretty goofy. You're technically on the water, but the hulking vessel is so big that you can't really feel anything, like tides or waves or water, which I personally expect when I'm on the water. You really might as well just eat on a restaurant near the water, rather than technically on it.

I don't understand the appeal, but most people seem to get it. All across the world, people want to eat their crab legs or whatever fishy concoction they believe the restaurant fished out of the river/bay/tributary/etc...for them.

Since I don't like to be wrong, let's look at some of the worst things could happen if you decide to eat on the water, rather than near it: