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Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.

Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.

Brajeshwar

Comments (59)

  • bawolff
    Phone free resturants if you're eating alone sounds kind of miserable. Sometimes i want to read something while i wait for my food to come out.
  • 28304283409234
    If I had a bar I'd ban phones and call it The No Bars Bar. Alt: The Bar Without Bars
  • wolvoleo
    Hmm I love phone free nightclubs (or rather camera free, they tape off the cameras). Like techno clubs.Not so much of a fan of this in bars and restaurants, sometimes you need to stay in touch with friends who are still arriving etc. Or often they change their mind "this place is cool, why don't you come to us instead of us coming to you?". But ok plenty of places to choose from.
  • anonymousiam
    There's a breakfast spot that I visit sometimes, with a sign on the wall that reads; "We do not have 'WiFi' -- Talk to each other -- Pretend it's 1995"
  • markus_zhang
    Well if they don't want businesses from phone-carrying people that's perfectly fine with me.Restaurants are too expensive anyway. A random breakfast in a random diner now costs around 60 CAD (include tax and tip) for two persons nowadays in my city. It is difficult to justify eating out unless I'm financially free.
  • raincole
    To increase table turnover rate for the restaurant.
  • hdbebdhdh
    I don't get it. If you don't want to use a phone, simply don't use a phone O_o
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  • quchen
    There are a couple of communities that have almost no phone presence. Certain kinds of music festivals are an example, and it's really quite nice not having to worry about being filmed.
  • SilverElfin
    Great. It would be nice to normalize that as a feature. A cafe near me sort of has this by simply not offering WiFi and having a sign about it, and it works - there are people having conversations with their kids and with friends and with strangers there, while all other cafes seem to be mostly people on their phones and iPads (especially kids) and laptops. Also we need a total ban on meta glasses and other similar surveillance devices.
  • Acrobatic_Road
    Yes! Phones should be treated like smoking.
  • gosub100
    You could enforce this by making a farday cage out of the building. I looked into this for an irrational (5G is government poison) family member. I wasn't going to debate how RF works, just buy some points by helping her indulge her fantasy. But actual RF blocking copper mesh material is very expensive. I wonder if this could be done via wallpaper and printing using a conductive ink printed on the same pattern?
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