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A Chick-fil-A operator in Georgia wants to stop families from being distracted by their phones while sharing a meal together. So he came up with the "Cell Phone Coop," a box in which family members place their (silenced) phones while they're eating in a Chick-fil-A restaurant, and he came up with a pretty good incentive to convince them to do so: free ice cream.
What's next they will give away freedom fries for bringing a Bible and reading it with your family.
Why don't they just limit themselves to sell food? Who do they think they are to tell their customers what they should be doing or not while they eat their greasy food?
There are recent academic studies on the negative impact of smart phone distractions on relationships. Whether one wants to eat at their restaurant or have ice cream is secondary, IMO.
There are recent academic studies on the negative impact of smart phone distractions on relationships. Whether one wants to eat at their restaurant or have ice cream is secondary, IMO.
There are recent academic studies on the negative impact of smart phone distractions on relationships. Whether one wants to eat at their restaurant or have ice cream is secondary, IMO.
There are also studies about the adverse effects on relationships from one or the other partners keeling from heart disease from eating too much fast food.
This isn't about protecting anyone.
First, it's marketing. Second, it's the usual abhorrence of change in the form of technology. Every generation loves the change of its younger years, but as it ages it then decides that further change is some combination of scary/bad/unhealthy/etc. Chik-fil-A is just capitalizing on that (and probably believes it a little, too).
I can't believe all the people are bashing this idea. Oh wait, I can. I'm betting the people bashing it are the same ones who have their eyes glued to their phones the entire time they are supposedly eating out with their "family." There have been countless times I've seen a group of friends go out, a dating couple, or family eat out together, and you wouldn't even know they're together except for the fact that they're sitting at the same table. They're so addicted to those stupid phones they can't take their eyes off them. The saddest situations I've seen are the times many moms are out with their toddlers. The toddlers want their mom's attention, and reach for her or talk to her, and she's so busy looking at her phone she ignores him/her the majority of the time they're at the restaurant. As for the challenge, my wife and I don't need it, because we detach from our phones when we're out together already. We don't need a dangling carrot offered by a restaurant, because we already have the most precious incentive in the world: keeping our marriage strong and happy by focusing our attention on each other.
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