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Retailers have a similar program involving cell phones. If you do not talk on your cell phones, you receive service. When your cell phone conversation is more important than checking out or finding an item, you receive no service. This concept works very well.
That's the way it is in our business. The incentive is simple. If you ignore the employees via your phone, we ignore you. When you don't, we help you. No ice cream required
Personally, I firmly believe that ALL restaurants should have a well-grounded Faraday cage built into the walls, windows, roof and doors so that NO RF radiation will penetrate!
If you want to use your phone, or 2-way radio, or wi-fi or anything that relies on RF radiation, take it outside to a patio or sidewalk table.
IF they choose to provide such tables.
If a business chooses to provide an incentive to put the phones away, that is for them to say, the public should have no say in the matter, nor should the government. Their business, their choice.
If any individual finds the business owner's choices abhorrent, that individual; is free to vote with his feet, by staying out of the establishment.
The business probably has a land line available for 911, fire or police calls when/if needed.
Drawback, when cops are in there, they can't get any signals and thus unable to respond to "Mall shooting" while chowing down...
Doesn't affect my life at all, because I'm not making up stupid terms like "phone shaming" or getting my panties in a wad about something so ridiculous.
And by the way, I sit in restaurants all the time with my head in my phone - and this doesn't bother me in the least. Even if they said that it wasn't optional and I had to put my phone away to eat there, I would either do it or get my food to go.
Seriously, unclench buddy... unclench.
Not clenched in the least. Thanks for your concern.
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.
While it is a problem, I bet you that's less than 10% of total people you come across in a restaurant.
Me talking on MY phone at MY table doesn't affect you any differently than talking to the people sitting at my table.
this is the basic problem of the world. we don't live in a bubble independent of others in public. if you were loud and annoying at a public restaurant at YOUR own table as are most people on their phones, annoying ringtones and all and not realizing it, i'd remind you to shut the f&ck up.
anyone saying, "i'm going to chik-fila now and turn my phone up really loud and shout into it while i eat my chicken sandwich just cos a christian said i won't get ice cream" is a bonafide douchebag and/or had really bad relationship with his mother.
anyone saying, "i'm going to chik-fila now and turn my phone up really loud and shout into it while i eat my chicken sandwich just cos a christian said i won't get ice cream" is a bonafide douchebag and/or had really bad relationship with his mother.
Well it's a good thing no one in this thread has said that.
some have expressed that.. "no one" does not equate you.
I think you're probably referring to my statement that others have agreed with:
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Originally Posted by hertfordshire
Makes me want to go to Chick-fil-A and talk on my phone while having my chicken sandwich.
Which is a far cry from what you posted.
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Originally Posted by ControlJohnsons
anyone saying, "i'm going to chik-fila now and turn my phone up really loud and shout into it while i eat my chicken sandwich just cos a christian said i won't get ice cream" is a bonafide douchebag and/or had really bad relationship with his mother.
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