Its definitely an individual thing hence the reason I don't have a sink in mine and others do.
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The kitchen triangle point and the family flow issues are definitely valid points though and is one of the issues we considered.
We usually have two of us in the kitchen cooking at any one time and usually someone also doing the dishwasher; and the issue of the kids going to the fridge is definitely an issue. Our current house has a fairly typical triangle but the shape of the kitchen and the way we work makes it a pain in the butt when more than one person is in the kitchen. Part of the issue is that the benches do not have enough space between them - its about 1200.
So we addressed our habitual movement flow issues in the new kitchen. With the idea being to keep small snacks, coffee and the dishwasher job out of the main cooking area and also making more width between the benches (1600mm) so that when two of us are in there cooking we don't do the "bottom bump dance" all the time like we do now.
The triangle is definitely the "golden rule" particularly if you only need to consider how the kitchen operates for a single person but for us the rule doesn't ring quite right as we tend to team work rather than individually work so it was more important to consider the team work flows and make sure we wouldn't be tripping over each other, and for us part of the solution was an open style pantry with the fridge (and freezer) in it. I'll let you know if our solution works.