Promotion?

This is the Great Hall, where Dinners are hosted. The top table is the High Table, where VIPs sit. 

Promoted Up The Table.

A man was captured by cannibals.
"What," asked the cannibal chief, licking his lips, "is your job?"
"I am a newspaper man," came the reply.
"An editor?"
"No, merely a sub-editor."
"Promotion awaits you. After dinner you will be editor-in-chief."