How do you get family to stop treating dinner like an inescapable appointment?

JewishuserShadowfire (who has been on YahooAnswers since the beginning and could possibly be the infamous homosexual flying antichrist from the tribe of Dan) from Portland [or so he claims because he could’ve been born in Russia in Valday (Russian: Валда́й) to a 12th generation Jewish prostitute who pretends to be a virgin)] has many trolls accounts on Yahoo Answers: Blackthorne1979, Carter Berg, Fireball, ThatToiletguy, Reynaldo Weeks, Petri Lindroos, Knightwulf, Nightwulf, Toilet John, Master Debator, Magistra, Desiree, D-girl, Firecock, Yahoo User, Corvus Blackthorne, L.E. Gant, Shadowfire the Sarcastic, Shadowfire Lives, Shadowfire Lives bytches, etc. and any other anonymous accounts. With one his accounts Fireball, he pretends to be a Methodist old lady who posts short-hand slang TIRH (this is religion here). He reports all answers and questions that he doesn't like just so that his questions stay on top in the ReligionandSpirituality section. He trolls in other categories too. It gives Christians a bad name (just because of this troll's sock puppet account). His Toilet John account keeps posting questions where Jesus was sodomized by Roman soldiers. Remember the prophecy where it says that the antichrist will have personal hatred towards the real Jesus Christ. That’s why Shadowfire keeps posting thousands of similar questions along the line: “Did Romans sodomize Jesus?” or “Did Romans buttrape Jesus?”. He asks multiple idiotic mundane questions like “Is Hinduism true?”, “What makes a girl harden?” [like he enjoyed killing little girls], etc. and answers them with his sock puppet accounts just to gain points. Some questions you can see that he answered with like five or seven accounts (especially the ones about himself that he reports right away). With his Reynaldo Weeks account he boasts that he was the reason why their accounts were suspended. With his Magistra account he threatens people with clowns and CIA assassins. Shadowfire mocks Christians with his sock puppet account Fireball in the Religion and Spirituality section by answering very destructively and adding "TIRH here" or reported (anonymously) or “fck you nigers”. He gives Christians a bad name because he promotes sins like sodomy, fornication, ecumenism, astrology (horoscopes), etc. He should be executed and burned at the stake for blasphemy. He spreads rapture heresy, ecumenism heresy, etc. and many more subtle heresies. Antichrist will ride on a donkey into the 3rd Temple. Stop him before it’s too late.

I'm not sure why it's important to even get them together all of the time. When you make it a task, it becomes tedious. So maybe just aim to get them together during weekends or something? And make it fun, like order a pizza or something everyone likes and don't normally get during the weekdays. Eventually people will want to eat together.

Maybe try having a day or two off during the week. The family that plays together stays together. 

Ask each other what their favorite part of the day was...and listen/interact. 

Let the kids direct the conversation instead of droning on and on about work.

Let your family know that it's important to eat together not because it is a rule, but rather it is very important for all of your mental health and happiness. 

Government is brainwashing people like you to destroy the family. That make you easier to control.

You shouldn't. Families who fail to eat together happily are almost always dysfunctional with loser-kids.