Restuarants Requesting People Turn Off Their Cell Phones.

[jaydub]

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I have been to enough restaurants with similar price ranges, atmosphere and food quality and have never seen a message like this before. Has anyone encountered something like this before? What do others think of this policy?


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I've been to many where reception was simply not available. Before it closed down, Robert Donna's Galileo in DC was one that I recall I always had difficulty. Not sure if it was active blocking or an architectural coincidence but it seems to be more effective than a little menu note that the abusers would ignore. Let's face it, if someone is enough of a [censored] to be obnoxiously loud on a cell phone at a high end restaurant, they sure as hell aren't going to read the note and turn off their phone.

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[tuq]

I don't see the problem here. Proper protocol is to leave the table and go outside or maybe to the bar area (if the weather sucks) to speak on the phone anyway. They're only putting it on there to catch the small number of douchebags for whom this isn't obvious.

By the way, I only know of one restaurant in Phoenix where this policy is in place (Durant's, the legendary chop house on Central), but know of quite a few private golf country clubs that don't allow cell phone usage on the course.