Restuarants Requesting People Turn Off Their Cell Phones.

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Ook,

This might be true for electronic jamming but i doubt it would be so for a faraday cage since it is passive jamming - the equivalent legally would be suing an elevator manufacturer because your phone wont work between the 3rd and 4th floor.

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What does the restaurant do if you have a steak sitting in front of you and your phone guys off? Is there any teeth to this policy?

[[Phill]]

Been pondering this over the last hour and a half.

I can easily see restaurents developing into having mobile phone/no mobile phone sections like they had smoking/no smoking sections when smoking in public was legal.

This will probably be led by random pseudo scientific health scare #12 which 'proves' they cause cancer or a general social shift as evidenced in that recent thread about using a mobile in a train.

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However, in fast food or casual places a policy like this is dumb. In Seattle, Red Mill burgers has this policy, despite the fact that they cater to and thrive on families with loud muddy kids, etc. The cell phone policy is just borne out of a hate of phones and them trying to foist their ideas on other people, and for that I dislike it.

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They are not trying to foist their ideas on other people, they are trying to run a business and cater to their customers. There are quite a few places like this in LA and they are great. If you don 't have the courtesy to get off the phone when the waitress is there to take your order or when you are at the counter then you don't get service. And I would rather listen to some 3 year cry during my meal(because he doesn't know any better) than listen to someone have an inane conversation at ridiculous decibels.

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Fair enough, but I would still like to see a no-cell-phone policy at the ordering counter. If the threads here are any indication you don't need to give any more excuse for cashiers to hate you.

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Ook,

This might be true for electronic jamming but i doubt it would be so for a faraday cage since it is passive jamming - the equivalent legally would be suing an elevator manufacturer because your phone wont work between the 3rd and 4th floor.

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The problem here is the rare situation when a cell phone or pager is appropriate or necessary - you're a doctor or fireman on call out to dinner. A no phone policy should suffice to keep the a-holes from using their phones for unnecessary calls.

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You're not that important that you need to leave it on while you are having dinner. What possible inconvenience would it cause you?

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And believe me, it's usually pretty loud in there - a cell phone won't bother you unless you are a hypersensitive whiner.

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This is precisely the problem. People have a hard enough time regulating their volume on a cell phone in a quiet setting. In a busy dining establishment, this leads to some jackass literally screaming into his phone. Either step outside or turn it off.

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You're not that important that you need to leave it on while you are having dinner. What possible inconvenience would it cause you?

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This can go both ways - you're not that important that you can tell me that my preferences are less important than yours.

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You're not that important that you need to leave it on while you are having dinner. What possible inconvenience would it cause you?

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This can go both ways - you're not that important that you can tell me that my preferences are less important than yours.

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Really? You are certainly not more important than EVERYONE ELSE in the restaraunt are you?

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You're not that important that you need to leave it on while you are having dinner. What possible inconvenience would it cause you?

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This can go both ways - you're not that important that you can tell me that my preferences are less important than yours.

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Really? You are certainly not more important than EVERYONE ELSE in the restaraunt are you?

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There is no difference between a person talking on the phone and a person talking to someone at their table. Cell phone snobbery is the only reason the former bothers anyone.