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You are obviously a moron. There are dozens of instruments that can register your lack of indifference, like instruments detecting your typing on the keyboard in order to respond. Clearly, only a consumate retard can't see the obvious, that even web server detected the lack of your indifference by attaching your post below mine.
Freebie. #1 rule of holes; If you're in one, stop digging.
I'm intelligent enough to see the fallacy of your argument, I use my smartphone all time.
I think some of you boomers are just mad because you realize that none of us younger folks want to be associated with you. You fucked us during your time, and now we are fucking you by ignoring your existence.
Fair trade off IMO. If you're mad about, go jump off a bridge, then you will be notable for killing yourself over it.
I'm a tail end boomer and I agree with everything you said, we aren't part of the solution we are the problem, the sooner we get out of the way and let the young'uns fuck it up in their own way the better.
If I go in Fast Franks for a haircut it takes 3 minutes and costs $1
If I go in Airy Fairys for the same haircut it takes 21 minutes and costs $7
Time is money (the slop you are giving out is free)
It takes 1.05 minutes in 2004 and takes 1.55 in 2014, the price you charge is (price/1.05)*1.55)
All equivalent restuarants are the same, so charge accordingly.
Is it just me or do people seem to be getting thicker at a disproportionate rate.
You need to account for the roughly 50% + inflation over the last 10 years
Sorry, I forgot about inflation, of course it now takes 20 mins to do a 15 minute job because of old ben.
What kind of fuckwits cannot remove the inflationary effects of QE from a simple restuarant analogy.
For fucks sake, the restuarant in question is not real.
What he is saying is the fuckwitted customers piss about taking piccies of the menus, themselves,each other. the waiters, and then get around to looking at the actual menu. Only then do they ask the waiter to interpret the menu for them (yes it is a burger, yes it is made of some indeterminate meat based product, yes it might be kocher, no I have never tried it)
The price in a restuarant does not reflect the quality of the food, it reflects the redundant staff.
Cheap food = minimal staff running round like pillocks
Expensive food = flunkeys to take your coat, different one to take your starter, another one for your wine, yet another one for your meal (remember that) and a realy pompous twat to overseea the lot.
Time is money (despite what the bankers say)
Put a sign on the door "This is a dead zone. There is no cell phone service or wi-fi of any sort." Then jam all service. At the tables put a note at the top of the menu saying something to the effect of "Thank you for not using your cell phones or other electronic devices." Maybe they'll get the hint.
That's a great idea. If the food is really good, they'll comin for the food, quick order, eat and then leave so they can check on their SMS, etc. This will cut the time the waiters are serving them and you can begin serving the next customer.
We have a restaurant in portland, Escape from New York Pizza, no cell phone use allowed.
"Put a sign on the door "This is a dead zone....."
Might not be the best idea based on the quality of reading skills in the US public and the media attention to EBOLA at the present time....
Dress the staff as zombies and you're golden.
Even better. Put a sign on the door: get in, eat as fast as you can, pay and get the fuck out of here!
this is an example of the way it is with personal tech. i know someone trying to sell a home. it is a 15 year old house out in the country on a cleared 20 acre pasture with a beautiful mountain view. the commute is only 30-45 minutes. however, it is fair enough out in the stix that there is no phone signal or cable or dsl. they have satellite tv and dial up internet.
they will not be able to sell their home. it has already been listed for 6 months with only 2 showings. no wireless and/or highspeed cable/dsl is an instant deal breaker. i wonder what discount would make someone make an offer.
Why don't they get satellite internet like they have for yachts?
What does it cost to set up a microwave link?
How about this; "Ladies and gentlemen today there is a special. For anyone that will shut off all of their electronic devices and show that it is off when asked by the waiter we will discount your meal by 10%."
If you need to use the restaurant's wifi, just fucking kill yourself. OH NOES, I MIGHT USE 5MB OF MY MONTHLY BANDWIDTH!!!
Its what they call "Progress".
Liberally so.
+1
Effin' saved.
Get one of those cell phone blocker thingys off the internet with limited range. Make it go on/off intermittently and fuck with their heads. They'll give up, frustrated. And they can't say the restaurant was a total dark spot.
Then turn the signal blocker off on the slow midweek nights M-T-W when you don't care about turning over the tables. The information is empowering, so use it.
I patronize businesses with WI-FI for my laptop but that's what McDonalds and StarBucks are for.
umm metal walls, no wifi, waiter/waitress not allow to touch your phone for hygienic reasons, and sign outside, when through with your phone please come in side and eat. thanks, the management
Totally agree. Really don't want to take food from those with tattoos; I think they are disgusting. And as to the kitchen staff, can't see what they look like but always figure whatever the outfront staff looks like, the kitchen staff will be worse. Hepatitis anyone?
Is it bad that I'm reading this article on my phone while having lunch at a restaurant and watching college football?
You guys think this is bad, how about her texting while your Fu...ng her.
They're logging into ZH to see if the world is ending soon enough for them to eat without having to pay for dinner.
Hahahahaha! Made ME laugh, anyway.
As with any technology, it is what you use it for. It can be used and it can be abused.
In some situations I find it more honest.
Why should we regurgitate some MSM stories about football players just to break uncomfortable silence?
We can as well text around or read whatever we want to on our phones.
Of course, when we actually need to talk and fulfill the reason that we are together today, everybody should stop playing with their phones.
Lately when people comment to me about the top headlines on CNN, I just tell them I don't really care.
lol.
Uncomfortable silence with your lunch companions?
lol.
I think you have the illness and the symptom reversed.
Yeah, I have to work, you know. We are not living all in one cave here.
Is it ironic that im reading this on my fone..at a NY restaurant?
:/
They are so busy on their iCrap they don't even notice the waiter's extra special semen sauce addition ... just to show them his appreciation of their inconsiderate attitude.
Today more customers complain in restaurants, we found its the customers fault.
I'm not really buying it, I've noticed long time favorite restaurants here have just gone way down in service and quality of food. These restaurant owners can go ahead and make themselves feel better by by blaming it all on customers then whatever, but I know service and quality are way down.
Of course it is the customers fault, apart from all of you being total wankers (that was always true is is not the reason for the failing service).
You, as the customer, are not prepared to pay for the service that you would like. We as the proprietor have slashed wages and sacked staff to cut costs so that you the customer will frequent our premises.
You, the customer, want bistro french attendance and food at MaccyD's prices, of course you will be dissapointed.
Make a place called "faraday cage restaurant". Problem solved.
The only negative I can think of to a global EMP will be the inability to access ZeroHedge, but that may in the end be a sacrifice I'd be willing to make to watch all these electronics-dependent assholes flip out and starve.
What is the problem ?
Give the customers what they want at a price they are willing to pay (and prosper) or don't.
It's not fucking personal, it's business
You're in or your'e out.
That is the free market.
Isn't that what you want ?
That's what I think -- but I'm assuming they can't expand the sq.ft. or double their prices to compensate for same amt clients taking twice the time.
I wouldn't spend 2 hours in a restaurant I didn't like! They mostly have a happy problem others would envy. But the study they did was a snapshot of the times in which we live.
No, the restaurant owners are supposed to be public educators. They should either support or not support the use of phones while in restaurant.
Depending on political affiliations.
Bull$hit; who the fuk needs wifi nowadays? Especially on phones!?
Bottom line, service suks. No need to go out and not as healthy anymore either. Especially if one of the patrons has just gotten back from West Africa. ;-)
new slogan Hang Up and Consume! well these devices were supposed to be a big boost for business, need a restaurant, just hit the APP. but its increasingly more likely we're becoming like the French, or the French have always had personalities programmed like cell phones, dont know which. the solution (dammit) is to find those old interior designers who used to decorate Denny's restaurants, orange and purple i think the colors were, they were chosen for their dual psychological effect, one color was to attract you, the other was to make you want to leave. no kidding. if you can't find those guys, then hire a bunch of prositutes to wait the tables, they understand how it works. anyway i understand that place Seinfeld and his friends used to go is about the same as ever, so just go there, the place named aptly, Restaurant.
A phone call can wait an hour. I'd not allow cell phones into the restaurant. What an obnoxious trend (hopefully). The next time I am talking to someone only to see they are staring down at their hand, I am walking out of the room. Cell phone use has become an isolator in the sense that people are not interested in engaging in conversation with anyone beside them, friend or stranger. That phone in their hand has all their attention. I thought communication between family members might bring them closer with such constant and instantaneous access to each other. Hopefully that is one plus. I do not know.
Orange and yellow with vinyl seats to make your butt sweat.
Phone-masturbating while in a restaurant is not the best indicator or how acute the addiction is - I have witnessed the sheeple doing it while engaging in sex !
Becasue some 20 plus thinks they are all that.
Facebook is like a fucking highschool popularity contest continued into adulthood.
Everyone trying to show off this persona of being ultra hip and trendy. All my old friends who are funemployed as they call it, all they do is post pictures of themselves.
The ones with lives and jobs, you see a picture once a month if that.
apparently you didn't get the memo. Jobs are for schmucks these days. ;)
Dance like no one is watching....because everyone is looking at their phone, so no one is watching.
Your grandparents used to make exactly this complaint about TeleVision...
Yeah, and they were right.
Ok I will admit, if a meal looks good (really good) I might snap a picture and send it to group chat every now and then (not often), the meal would have to look extraordinarily amazing for me to even bother. . . . or it would have to be a special item that you dont get to eat often that everyone is familiar with (cultural food).
But 4 minutes to take a quick pic of something you are about to eat? shouldn't take more than 20 sec.
Other than that, I have never requested a picture with the person serving the food (I would feel like thats rude, do you want people taking pictures of you at work???).
I would not waste the waiters time asking them how to setup wifi. . . if it works. . . great, if not . . . o well ill eat and get out of here in 40 minutes or so anyway . . . LTE will work probably.
What I as the restaurant owner would do is. . . .
1) Look at how we can boost wifi signal a bit / make it more stable so that people can access it better and provide clear instructions on a card somewhere on the wall where people are seated.
Reason: If they can just connect and do their stupid crap on their phone without bugging the waiter, the waiter can be busy doing productive things. . . . instead of pretending to be tech support.
2) Instruct the waiters to tell the customer they dont know how to setup the wifi but that the card on the wall has instructions.
Reason: It should not be the waiters job to be tech support for every kind of cellphone/tablet out there on the market that people could potentially be using just to get them onto the wifi network.
3) Make sure the wifi is fast as possible
Reason: the less time it takes these sheeple to upload the picture of their waffles to all their friends ,the quicker they get to stuffing their face and then you wont be asked to re-heat the stupid thing.
4) Consider putting up a large clock, so people have a conscious idea of the time they are spending in your restaurant, a large clock that stands out a fancy clock, preferably next to a tv if you have one lol
There isn't much you can do, people are stupid and take pictures of themselves and everything they do like it some great achievement that makes them more interesting , when in reality most people simply dont even give a shit about what those individuals are doing, nor do they care what their waffles look like.
This is a new trend of people who dont feel important taking pictures of useless crap and bombarding their friends with stuff to get attention.
I take it you have never taken a picture of a plate of fried bulls testicles and tried to make them look appetizing.
"Waiter...this plate needs more parsley."
No I can't say I have, but im sure you have enjoyed quite a "load" of bull testicles in your life so far.
I call BS their investigation is flawed and exaggerated.
Typical decent mid to high range restaurants in NYC with party 4+ is 2 hours at minimal.
Never been to a restaurant that served apps in 6 minutes unless this is counting the complimentary bread and how some people takes 2 minute less to take a pic?! I barely get my alcoholic drink in that time during the peak dinner time.
No restaurant is that efficient unless it's serving salad as teh main course during peak hours.
This has been circulating for months. Nothing new here. As a waiter that stopped waiting on tables in 1994 and started again in 2013, I didn't need old VHS tapes to know things had changed dramatically and not for the better. I felt like a time traveller. The use of cell phones and ipads at the table is beyond reasonable. Who gives a crap about a photo of a cocktail or a piece of pie, yet hundreds of those photos are taken everynight where I work. One spouse texting while the other is talking on the phone while I am trying to get an order is a regular occurence. I feel restaurant should not provide wifi. Without wifi most people would be reluctant to use valuable minutes on their plan to livestream a game which is another occurence.
If I approach a table on the phone, I now say with a big grin, "Let's put the phone down and return to the real world". Most people respond back with a smile and put the phone down until I leave the table.
It's time to ban phones, iPads, Google Glass, social media, etc. from restaurants.
Douchebags with devices need to be banned.
No one gives a shit what you're eating.
A restaurant has a given amount of space, and that limits their absolute profit. It looks like this is cutting into their profits, the average customer appears to be taking at least 2X as long at the table.
Yeah, there should be a law!
Must be a slow news day..
This article can grow cobwebs. Who really gives a shit about New York City's shithole restaurants?
Maybe the piece is meant to be merely a 'slice of life.' Must we always debate the intricacies of the Kabalist cabal?
Typical market analysis. They just published what arrogant assholes they are. People go out to eat to take time and enjoy. If they just wanted to eact good food they would stop at falafal cart and eat in park. Hopefully morons will be fired.
You're missing the point that some customers are dissatisified because the service is slow and food is cold and putting it on the net even though it is the fault of the customer. People don't realize the amount of time they are on the phones. In their mind they think they sent one text or looked up one thing quickly but in reality they spent a ton of time on there.
There's some tv show the kids watch and it has clips of people doing stupid things. One segment has this guy in a public place faking he is on his cell phone. He gets close to random people talking loudly on their cell phones. The guy starts answering or adding to these people's conversations. You should see how pissed off they get. When they say something to the guy, he just looks at them and says, "excuse me, I'm trying to have a conversation on my phone." But these self absorbed assholes are pissed that this guy is doing exactly what they are doing.
My wife and I are out with friends at a local pub, none of us on the phone by the way. This 20 something comes over and asks us if we have a charger for their phone cause it's dead. They're in a pub with friends and they need their phone??? WTF??? One of the people at our table says well if you need to make a call you can just use my phone. The kid was perplexed.
Odd, I actually have NOT noticed this, in the mid-tier restaurants I tend to sit in, out here in Kalifornya. But I suppose a top-tier touristy place might be different.
But really, even just figuring that one out of ten diners might receive an unexpected call during a meal, and slow down their whole table by a few minutes, could add up. I've certainly seen that. Even been guilty of it, though I usually bounce the call off within a minute for a later callback. I've never had to *answer* a text in realtime during a restaurant meal.
Also, a lot of places I go there's nobody waiting anyhow, I tend to go in after the rush and if I wanted to linger nobody would be impacted.
Yeah the customers are messing about on their 'smart' gadgets, but more than likely so are the waitstaff.
Unless the restaurant in question specifically forbids that...I didn't see that aspect brought up though.
Run a signal jammer in the restaurant, or shield it. Put a big sign that nobody will read saying no phones. Advertise this act and it will go viral. Profit.
They have no smoking, you want to smoke, go to the designated area. Do the same for phones as for cigarettes.
Enjoy your meal.
True, many people are hooked on their cell phones. But, also, many people are nervous or become bored, sitting at a table in a restaurant. I guess they could haul out the worry beads and shuffle those things around for distraction.
The older I get, the less I want to eat out. Unless you are willing to pay high prices for food "made from scratch", most of your restaurant food is prepared by Sysco, flash frozen and shipped to the the eatery.
Did you ever wonder why the cost of a very similar entree or burger deluxe is almost the same everywhere: Because every restaurant is paying Sysco almost the same price for everything and adding a mark-up.
I have stopped eating bar food. I have my wife or my married daughters supply me with great fresh-cooked food before I remove myself from Jersey and get re-stationed at our place in Vermont. Sure, I still go to the local bars and taverns. But, I eat the re-heated good food from the frig brought from home before I venture out. I feel better nourished. I still exchange the same bar banter; but am spared the cost of and malnourishment from their food; and leave in 45 minutes after two drafts.
Who the fuck takes pictures of food? More importantly who the fuck things anybody else is interested in what food they eat? You don't see them taking picture when it leaves, so why the fuck do they think anybody is interested in how it gets in?
/rant
Now that I've got that out of my system it's an interesting article and gives a very nice insight into our cultural changes.
Time to join SPA. Smart Phone Aholics
It truly has become an addiction for much of the population.
Nowadays with alias being more prominent than ever before, how many are living digital fantasy lives vicariously?
A lot. I used to own a bar, five gals come in and sit at the bar opposite from me. They all pulled out the phones and had there noses in it.
"Are you guys texting each other?" I queried :)
this is apparently a tragic case of "slow death by success" ... the technology angle is largely a red herring since this pattern is well known.
restaurant has its mojo and appreciative local customers etc. and then becomes tourist darling likely named as a place to visit when in NYC.
tourists flood the joint and crowd out the locals, tourists complain about service times and food that doesn't meet their inflated and stylized expectations of NYC cuisine.
Moral of the story: be careful what you ask for.
cue the Seinfeld... NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Slightly OT, I feel a little more justified for smashing my ipad over my thigh last night having read this! It was given to me as a present this past July, the family member who gave it to me bought it for me in March but I insisted I had enough electronic equipment and was trying to simplify my life. The family member in July said it had an inscription on it so they couldn't take it back for a refund so I accepted. The ipad began staying on all the time and wouldn't go to "sleep" after 2 minutes as it was supposed to, in my frustration I thought "I have enough to do in my life without being a prisoner to this stupid thing" and lost it, smashed it over my knee and thigh and now it is bent, cracked and curved.
I don't necessarily recommend smashing these devices, but I do feel that they have made life shittier in many regards.
I hope you don't make a living as a commercial airline pilot.
The only people I have heard of with similar low levels of coping skills are mental patients.
I don't have one, and only have an older LG flip-phone. It works great, and the battery lasts a fairly long time. Quite satisified with it.
Are my posts being moderated?
Fuck no.
edit: If that got through, then I would say no.
Bad reviews? Well, DUH!
Hasn't anybody figured out yet that the web review site YELP is just "broken glass insurance" for small businesses?
I've heard many reports that small businesses are mysteriously slammed with bad reviews on YELP, and then when the owner calls YELP, they offer to sign him up for a premium service that will suppress bad reviews.
I've heard customers say that they have given businesses good reviews which never show up on YELP.
It stinks to high heaven.
It appears to be true as I had a personal experience with these lecherous cons.
They claim their rating system is governed by a futuristic algo, but they won't show good reviews if there are bad ones, unless you become a member.
I think it is the Costa Nostra Algo they are using.
You can throw Angie's List in there too.
In the UK papers there have been articles where online reviewers insist on getting their meal for free or they will give a bad review.
I had a few houghts/recollections as I read all this. It has probably been at least 10 years but we went to Venezuala for vacation one year. As I recall you needed to drive thru a tunnel in a large mountain to get from the airport to the beach. The hills were covered with muddy slopes and cardboard homes - BUT - each one of those cardboard homes had a satellite dish !
Speaking of restaurants - when I was much younger growing up in the NYC area we used to frequent a place called Puglia's in little Italy - is that still around ? On the jersey side I miss Callahan / Hiram hotdogs in Fort Lee ... (It's been 30+ years...)
Snopes before you Post, ZeroHedge!
http://happyplace.someecards.com/stop-sharing-this-crap/a-restaurant-stu...
Snopes?
The guy is writing an opinion piece and offers not a shred of empirical evidence that the story is not true.
The kitten in a microwave could also be true because it can't be proved it didn't happen somewhere.
My guess is that it happens all the time in China but they gut and dress it first.
Those fuckers will eat anything.
Same crap at golf courses. I tell the family I'm golfing and leave phone in truck. Every other jackhole out there is taking calls. Really??? None of these holes are solving the world's problems so I have no idea why they need to take a call.
But one golfer is the POTUS! Wait, never mind.
Phew. Me and my portfolio are glad we're back to talking about bullshit again.
This "research company" should be fined by the grammer police !
Horrible.
I take it you've managed to elude the Spelling Police.
We always go to restaraunts that have a big sign on the door -- "out of respect for our customers please turn off your phone before entering". We have witnessed customers that do not comply being unceremoniously shown the door, often to applause. The headline word here is "respect" -- apparently many today lack it.
To me, the worst thing about 21st-century restaurants is being seated near some old fool who is going deaf, and trying to talk on a cell phone.
I'm not the least bit bashful anymore about asking to be re-seated...
So to all the old fools out there who are going deaf (and I myself am rapidly approaching that "old fool" age): Get a set of hearing aids!!!!!!!
No, the worst thing is the presence of human bodily fluids in one's meal. According to a Pew study, 28% of pizzas and 36% of steak dinners included some form of human DNA, inferring some sort of unseemly griddle injection.
Tastes great or less filling?
We tried to tell Louie to keep clear of the pepperoni machine.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
WHAT!
The guy should have doubled his prices when iphone 2 came out.
re Why Do NY Restaurants Suck?
Everything stinks of Gefilte Fish.
Why Do NY Restrooms Suck?
It's that Getilte Fish again... the after-effects this time
Question passed to friends: How many times per week do you consider inviting someone to "shove that phone up their ***"?
FACEBOOK CRASH
Survey: Facebook use among teenagers aged 13 to 19 plummeted from 72 percent to 45 percenthttp://homment.com/facebookcrash
it's not cool when your Mom is posting selfies every couple of hours and trying to friend YOUR friends.
>>>> ,but 40 to 65 year-old women the usage has jumped to 95%.
I DETEST mobile phones and as a result I refuse to have one! In fact, I greatly dislike computers, newspapers and TV. All these illusions of knowledge and information are destroying the way our memory function. All these available “shortcuts” are doing nothing but injecting mental paralysis into humanity. Modern media is the greatest tool ever invented for the achievement of a total mass amnesia. For the last two years, I started limiting my internet time for no longer than 30/40 minutes a day and, not surprisingly, my life has improved immeasurably; I started reading thick books again, I’m more present with my kids, my memory got better, quality of my sleep is incomparable to what it used to be…and the list goes on and on.
While I agree with some of your comments, I think you miss the point on others...
The computer, the internet, smart devices (but then, I may contradict myself), are ALL ammoral devices. The user has complete control over how he will use them (yes I said "he"... Old fashioned... Humor me). The world has gone through some incredible changes, technology not withstanding.
Info is at our fingertips, literally. I like that when I am trying to solve a problem or need info in an instant. Time waits for no one. Learning from books is good when you are studying exact sciences and the like but other things and info change so quickly that not even a monthly magazine can keep up with the changes.
I applaud you efforts on reconnecting with you kids and choosing to read books again. More of this shold happen if it is possible. However, you can hold more classics on an electronic reader than you can store in most people's homes and the cost is usually considerably less for the most part.
Diagrams, schematics, parts numbers, etc, etc, are all ammoral info that can be accessed on an ammoral device so much easier and quicker than trying to make a phone call to a vender or some company.
If your interests are geopolitics, health and nutrition, the environment or any number of other subjects, access to smart devices and the internet can make your life much more tolerable and efficient.
We like walking, but we appreciate having cars to drive. We like home cooked meals with home grown foods, but we appreciate having the choice and ability of going to grocery stores and restaurants. We like talking face to face, but we appreciate phones, texts and emails... At least, some of us do.
Choice is a wonderful thing. I try not to be too critical of techies and phone zombies, but I do let my friends and their kids know when I think they are being controlled by their devices rather than them controlling their devices... Just sayin'...
Very thoughtful post. I liken the Internet to the ancient Library of Alexandria, but as you stated, how or if you take advantage of the Internet is a choice. That is why I have so little sympathy for those claiming (racial, social-economic) victim-hood status. The only acceptable explanation for ignorance is a lack of intellectual ability. In my opinion, that is a pretty small subset, because motivation overcomes so many challenges otherwise.
Amen to that...
It is even more annoying when your family is constantly doing whatever on their phones.
My favorite comment so far:
jbvtme
more than anything the iphone has robbed us of the flirt
Can't miss one second of "Ow! My Balls!" even while out dining.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109548/Cellphone-Jammer-Pocket-...
next time some group like Occupy tries mass protests, cell/radio jammers might just be of some help.
Or, apparently, the next time you go to TGI Fridays....
do these same people who take a picture of their meal take another picture when they're done with?
I'll tell you why New York restaurants suck...it's all that 'diversity' spitting into my white order....just sayin
I was going with...
"Because they're filled with asshole NewYorkers."
Imagine my surprise.
I thought he just hated Arabs, but I guess any brown people making less than minimum wage without whom the city would grind to a halt...will do.
I hate people of every race, creed, and color. How is it that those brown people are making Less than minimum wage? Also, NYC grinding to a halt is a bad thing?
Ok, that!
That's how you do the fucking fight club thing, right there...
Just slam that silly head right into the sticky concrete floor.
So New York is too poor to afford to pay an acceptable wage? It's never going to happen but I would love to be able to send all the illegals home just to see the effect upon wages.
I invited 5 of my best clients for an evening dining. I made reservations. I asked the owner of the restaurant to take our mobile phones when we came in. He did. Clients where shocked but they did it. We had a wonderfull evening :D
Excellent work.
So that's how those naked pictures of me got on the internet! They can pry my iPhone out of my cold dead hands.
This is awkward.
I never got a chance to loathe social media because I never felt compelled to be a part of it.
All I know is that that there are dickheads that are going to die because they are so obsessed with what they think everyone should know about them that they text while driving.
This makes me happy.
And how is the shit news?
And how is the shit news?
as opposed to people beheading other people?
this article was actually funny and truthy.
the nation and culture would be very substantially different if the average person had even a minimal understanding of how microwaves work {apart from knowing how to make hot pockets} and what they do to human tissue, particularly neurons.
On the plus side, if and when major riots start, and the weird looking trucks come out, lots of people might get a crash course in microwave technology.
I concur...
1) turn off the WiFi
2) place a sign outside that tells people there's no WiFi, there never will be and to please come in and enjoy the fact that no cunt is in here posting pics of their meal on fucking Facebook. Feel free to use those exact words.
3) enjoy a statistically proven increase in traffic and turnover due to faster turnaround on each table and the huge increase in customers who are specifically attracted by point #2.
30 + years in the hotel/restaurant industry... It doesn't work that way... I could wish that it did... But it doesn't... Perceptions of what customer service is all about can be all over the place, but the ones who remain in service decade after decade are the ones who learn to kiss the behinds, I mean, adapt to the changing marketplace the best...
How to make a restaurant successful for me:
1. No wifi
2. Open/concealed-carry encouraged.
3. No GMO shit.
4. Organic as possible.
yep. If you wanna eat, get rid of the wi-fi BS.
Snopes before you post Zerohedge,
really man.
Self absorbed narcicissists.
Damnn near everyone and EVERYWHERE
Was at a play on Broadway the other night... you had morons standing in traffic on Broadway to take selfies showing all the ads in the background. I lost count of the number of people trying to take photos IN the theater despite clear postings and numerous announcements that these were not allowed. If ushers asked them to stop the people complained obnoxiously.
We are now a society of 'Look at ME!' - though it seems that nobody else is really all that impressed.
There was an article recently making the argument that facebook and social media were as much about schadenfreude as anything else - people checking up on friends to make comparisons, efforts to see how lousy their 'friends' lives were in comparison.... people checked more often on 'worse off' 'friends' than 'better off' 'friends' in an effort to feel better about their own lives.
Self-absorbed narcissists: just look at what passes for a president today!
Self absorbed narcissistic obsessive compulsives......wait 'til they finally find out those phones cause cancer.
Perhaps restaurants should have device free zones where the prices of the food are 10-20% cheaper.
I recently read that is already happening.
At work the younger generation on their phone more than working
I agree but at the same time, don't kid yourself too much. I can get done in an hour, what takes most of the older generations all day to complete, on an excel spreadsheet, emails, etc .
So many hypocrites in this thread...
How so, Bob? Do you post factless posts like this on your Amazon reviews too?
Me no like Face [It's a Waste] Book...Me like cookies!.....
this did the rounds on arsebook weeks ago, did the weekend tyler break open the emergency vodka?
Someone should introduce a phone-free restaurant - with lower bills.
Alternatively, people should pay for the time they occupy the table - with the food prices correspondingly cheaper.
I am sure someone can make a mint out of this horrible inefficiency. I mean, if the customers take almost twice as long to have their meals, the restaurant's meals per table per day will take a dive. That is very expensive.
This must be ZH's entry for "Old Joke Saturday."
Because this tall tale is really getting old.
No wonder NSA needs massive storage capacity -- trying to cope with all those selfies, food photos, twits, and inane bits of rubbish perpetually flooding into the electronic environment. And maybe one of those food photos was a terrorist message.
When someone take out a phone - thats mean he is not interesting in you in anyway
I always thought people who live to show themselves off on social media are really empty inside.
the TV used to be the tool of choice for the Agenda to manage people ( propaganda ) manufacture consent
today, its the smart phone / tablet etc.
we are being activly programmed. its nary unavoidable.. unless we completely disconnect, which is nearly impossible in any sub/urban culture
P < P + I
No really, it's totally possible. I spent most of my life without a cell phone. It WAS glorious!
I can hear the collective gasp, but I even leave my house sometimes w/o a phone!
Thank you. This article made my day. :-)
WiFi has been banned in Israeli schools.
Banned from schools in France & Germany too.
Microwave radiation is making people sick.
DNA being damaged.
U.S. monkeys are being genetically destroyed.
Prepare to be boarded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99_SzoXZdY
I guess I'm too old because I've never gotten it. I did have get a go phone once to do two factor authentication for a bitcoin trading account. I can't find it now. I think its in a drawer somewhere. Why would I want to pay nearly a hundred bucks a month so people can bother me? Heck, that's 5 ounces of silver. When I grew up the phones had an earpiece that cupped over your ear and a mouthpiece you talked into. These things they have today are not phones, they're not computers, and their not televisions, but they do a little of all 3 very poorly. I seriously can't figure out why anyone would want one of those gadgets.
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