Exactly!
Some Chik fil a kid is going to give me agita over my phone?
Not a chance...nunya!
Snooty wannabe “upscale” place? What business is it of yours how I choose to occupy my seat and eat your overpriced dreck?
Agreed.
Free-market economics.
If the majority of the buying public doesn't want this, it wouldn't be "gaining traction".
If one is addicted to their phone and cannot unloose themselves for 10 minutes, then they can go to a restaurant with others addicts.
If one prefers normal social interaction, then they would do business with an establishment with like-minded people.
Why would anyone have a problem with the Free-market?
What if the babysitter needs to call you about an emergency? What if your son away at college is having a meltdown and really really needs to speak to you? What if the next door neighbor is calling to say your house is on fire? What if …………?
Some of us Only use our phones for necessary communication and know how to keep them tucked away until needed and how to science a call or ignore a text if it is interrupting a meal, and we don’t see the need for posting our every activity to instagram. But we will refuse to have our phones confiscated to a locked bag like we were children or idiots!
Yeah, good luck with all that 👌
It’s a start. Now replace incompetent and rude employees with robots and ban disruptive customers.
Ban phones and dogs in all resteraunts. Dogs don’t belong in resteraunts. If you can’t go out to eat without your dog, don’t go out.
An actual service dog for a disabled person I get but your service dog patch on an annoying ankle biter is a pathetic excuse for idiots.
“It’s that guests are going out less often than they used to and spending more per visit when they do, so operators are trying to make sure the visit delivers.”
BS, this is so the Instagram Foodies can’t post “live” reviews of their proprietary slop and give them low-star ratings.
It’s a good idea on one hand. But we’ve been alerted of security breaches at our house, critical notifications relative to elderly parents, and similar situations. It really isn’t practical in today’s world.
But I agree that sitting there scrolling for social reasons is disgusting and rude.
The only place you should put away your phone is somewhere that requires listening to a speaker (like church, or movie theater).
As people have mentioned previously, a mobile phone is considered an important device when receiving emergency contact.
...but what if some tranny gunman breaks in and opens fire on the joint. Wouldn’t we want the patrons to be able to tell their kids that they’re safe?
Some people used to bring newspapers to the diner to read over breakfast.
I’m for it. Many cell users are very rude, in particular when they get a call and talk in an elevated voice so the whole damn place can hear them and are annoyed.
And to some a cell phone is an addiction, seriously, I had a shrink tell me about those she’s treated with it. These people will get clinically depressed if they do not get a certain amount of texts per day.
Several times we’ve watched a couple sitting in a restaurant on their phones the whole time not saying a word to each other.
We’ve had guests that take each call like it’s a life or death thing. I find it rude as hell and never want them in our home again.
And if these restaurants are making a profit by banning those things, more power to them!
No video recording of customers trying to enjoy themselves at the bar. Defund the Karens!
Well I wouldn’t darken the door of a place like that. What if the babysitter is trying to reach me?
Phones aren’t going anywhere they’re here forever the only issue is how YOU choose to live or live without one.
Like there’s not enough videos of Laquisha screaming and yelling in restaurants, now your going to tell her to put her phone up. That will work out real good, I’m sure.
When I’m at a restaurant by myself, I use my phone to read FR while I’m waiting for my meal.
If I’m dining by myself and want to do some reading online, have my phone on silent, why should I be required to put my phone away?
On the rare occasions when I have had to answer a call during a meal, I have had the phone on vibrate and stepped outside to respond to the call.
Why not make silent and step outside the rule?