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Wifi free zones.
http://www.mobilitytechzone.com/topics/4g-wirelessevolution/articles/201...
October 06, 2014 FCC Fines Marriott for Eliminating Wi-Fi Hotspots By Joe Rizzo MobilityTechzone Contributing WriterThe Marriott International is an American diversified hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. It is the largest hotel company with more than 4,087 properties in over 80 countries and territories around the world, so you would think that its profit margin is quite high.
In general, one of the selling points that hotels, motels and convention centers offer its customers is free access to Wi-Fi connections. Since most people need to stay connected, offering this free service, with fast connection speeds could help you decide where to stay.
Apparently, that is not the case with the Marriott. At least it is not the case with the Marriott's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center. The Marriott has been fined $600,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for disabling its guests' personal Wi-Fi hotspots.
FCC is more concerned about profit than your genetic health and future offspring.
I viewed this story on my smartphon. It took 7 seconds to zoom out and close the giant add so I could see the text. #zerohedgesoldout
Did you get your order your meal before or after?
A perfect description of the electronically entitled class, which means almost every one of us. Even the simple act of eating out with friends or family is an event to be captured on a phone.
I heard this story is a hoax.
Even so, the sentiment is true and these fuckers can stick their phones up their asses.
Fucking asshole customers. Thank [insert deity here] my current life keeps them away from me.
It's much simpler than that. "New York Restaurants Suck" because New York sucks. New York sucks because they're a bunch of suckers (see 9/11).
New York resturants suck because ...
they are in New York
So what's wrong with New York? Oh wait! I just found the answer below, right here in ZH!!
Restaurants suck in NYC for one reason and one reason only... Because they are in NYC.. A bunch of wannabe's that don't understand the true meaning of life...
So , other people' cellphones are wasting your time .
They also decrease efficiency in any hierarchical organization .
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/05/cellphones-and-hierarchies.html
I've been living in Japan for the past 6-7 years. I thought taking pictures of your food was a Japanese thing. I guess not. Maybe people are subconsciously expecting the collapse, and as they're dying of hunger they can look at their phone and remember what it was like to eat. Taking things from these people after the collapse is going to be easy pickins.
one commenter had the right idea.
just as there are, and were no-smoking sections, have and no-phone sections.
make sure the phone section is in the back, walled off, and can hold maybe 20 people.
I hate mobile phones and the jackasses who are so addicted to their extra "appendage" that they cannot bother to get off of the damned thing when paying for groceries. I'm sure that retail/grocery clerks have the same story as wait staff. My step brother even helped ruin a birthday party because he couldn't get off of that damned mobile! ( I got the blame for ruining the party, though; I'm the family black-sheep).
i hate it when i have to wait in line for a customer to show clerk the special on her phone....
just like waiting for someone to write out a check
a n n o y i n g
i just want to get the fuck out of the store...
Hi. My name is Babaka. I live in Liberia. I shit out 3 of my internal organs today.
I'm sorry you had to wait for someone to write a check.
Candyass
I'm horrified to hear of your horrible situation, Babaka.
Would you happen to be considering boarding a plane to the US to seek treatment? You'd have no trouble getting in to the US, but DON'T DO IT, THEY'LL KILL YOU at the hospital.
I wonder if some of these customers might be just as happy if instead of serving them real food the restaurant only texted them pictures of it to their phone? Even better, sell an additional App for $9.99 that Photoshops customers eating their virtual food while sitting next to their favorite celebrity so they can post it on Facebook.
As a Vulture Capitalist I'm always bullish on sick ideas. You sir, are a genius. Why don't we get together, discuss these rampable franchises, have a few drinks, maybe a few laughs and then I'll try to fuck you?
Twit me!.
Bob, Silicon Valley of the Dolls, Ca. 94303
This article is a re-tread. Saw this months ago on the interwebs.
Watching girlfriend porn with meals?
Only with banana custard.
Not once at my local Denny's have I taken a picture of my food, asked to have my picture taken with the waitstaff or sent my Grand Slam back to be reheated. What gives?
Maybe sending back one's plate is related to the high human DNA count referenced earlier by someone :). I rarely ever send back a plate, I expect the worst of human nature if I do.
Hock a loogie, kitcheroonie.
Because of John Wayne, Jesse Helms, Dale Earnhardt and Bear Bryant?
Illegal fish traps and shocker lines?
Homemade aged plum brandy?
Wild Muscadines, Yard Scuppernongs?
House Autrey hot breader mix, grilled catfish chunks.
With you favorite cold one?
fuckifino
Insane warm inch thick primo local beef,
Eastern blended Cabernet.
Feasting and fishing with long lost Cuz.
Fresh (warm? cool? every bodys got and asshole and opinion) night air blowing throught your hair/mind. No light, but the moon sparkling on the water. Happy lonesome.
So sorry NY.
Tragedy of the commons. (Useless) information and dialog via phone has become essentially free, so it's abused anywhere and everywhere until in certain venues such as this restaurant no one has a good time. I wouldn't be surprised that this is not a problem in other places where customer turns are measured and important for business profitability, or more extreme, viability. In this restaurant's case, the turn time doubled due to the introduction of this nearly free information access ability.
The sheople eat themselves alive...again. It's humorous in its irony.
fuck iphones... invented by soccer pussys. nerd fuckers.
Totally unlike Trudy's boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUESvITrvsI
Cut you down in a New York minute.
jeepers, mary and jezebel,,, you had to hire a firm to figure out that your customer turn time was an hour and fifty five minutes. Where the hell to I sign up for that consulting job? What an F ing joke. I am an executive chef at one point or another have worked from dishwasher to general manager to executive chef. Check the phones at the door. You come here for the food,, the drink,,, the comaradarie. You want to take pictures of my waitresses? Not gonna happen. Get in ,, sit down,, have a great meal and a coctail or two and get the fuck out of my chair or booth. We are here to make a living and in addition to that ,,, who the F has time for a two hour meal.
No wonder America is fucked,,, no one knows how or cares to work any more,,,
America,, glad I knew ya,,,,sorry for the rant,, I do feel better and havent' even had a cold one yet,,,,
Deerhunter, if I catch you at your favorite watering hole, we shall drink them dry.
On me.
himaroid, deerhunter may throw both of your asses out the door after only two cocktails, gotta keep the residence time to a minimum, dontcha' know! :-)
Some "Customers" are not worth having. Part of being a good businessman is the ability to identify and send these sorry ass patrons packing before they ever sit down and occupy valuable real estate.
Once walked by a table with a family of 8. All had their heads bowed. I thought to myself how rare it is these days that you see a family praying before dinner in a restaurant. I quickly realized all 8 of them were working on their phones.
Partial solution: no WIFI (and block outside wifi signals). A better solution: is a big sign (or large screen video) that essentially says the same as in movie theaters, namely "turn your phones off because it annoys the experience for everyone".
At this point in history, humans don't own and control mobile phones, mobile phones own and control humans. Planet of the clueless.
Zerohedge sucks now. This articles idea is old. "What happened to Tyler Durden?" should be the new "Who is John Galt?" Zerohedge has become the Alex Jones of economics.
Maybe the piece is meant to be merely a 'slice of life.' Must we always debate the intricacies of the Kabalist cabal?
It is all about the clicks.
This place looks like Facebook now.
Now they want to regulate who should do what with his phone and where, which makes sense only if you happened to be driving and talking/texting.
Mother Teresas and 'rebels' want to 'educate' you and make you talk to nice people (aka boring old farts) around and socialize, instead of minding your own business and ignoring them.
After fucking everything up, now that they are comfy and have chanelled all the money into their pensions, they want to be nice and you to talk to them.
So stop looking at that stupid video on your phone and let the old fart explain you how he got all that money even if he is a complete moron.
and employees and employer where not able to see the additional work due to photos taken and wlan administration?
and where not able to communicate about it, they had to use video surveillance?
they had to ask external resources to check it?
looks as if buisness and customers are in the same cage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assignment_%28novella%29
I fucking HATE cell phones. Everybody looks so stupid staring at this little device in their hands all the time. And they watch videos. They try to keep the sound down out of courtesy, but still you hear the tinny musical sound of the video, and their little nasal puffs as they laugh their courtesy laughs. So annoying.
Sometimes I sit in Port Authority with a book. An actual BOOK. People give me funny looks, some look twice. Some near me try to check it out. I must look like some throwback to the past. Maybe if I wear a period costume and an ID badge everyone will be more comfortable.
go hamburg. everyone is reading books here all the time in the open public. they even have public busses with a small library inside.
but even there one has to notice that the books and newspapers are replaced by tiny electronic devices in the last 5 years.
Something doesnt jive. Time from finish to start is up almost by 50 minutes, close to doubling the time it took 10 years ago.
How can they still serve same number of customers ? Did they extended the hours ?
They increased staff
They make it up in volume. See GM.
Thank you Steve Jobs for ruining society.
And kids if you really wanted to be rebellious you would NOT have an iphone or a tattoo.
Useless eater need to go
O ye, you old farts, pretentiuous do gooders, mindless rednecks, regular ZH socialist 'rebels' and such:
Except when driving, I'll talk, text and browse Internet on my phone wherever and whenever I want.
And unless you get Gubimint and regulations on your side, you can all ... you know what.
That's fine but don't whine and waste everyone's time because you want to have a stop-and-chat with your smart phone.
Also - get a life.
***************
8000 Ebola victims
58 now in NZ
Latest:
http://tersee.com/#!q=ebola&t=text
Still though instead of taking the information and adapting to it they blame the customer.
Adapt, for example take orders at the door before seating.
The service sucks as well - can't even take an order:
Wanted a bowl of granola,.. got a case of Ebola..
Huge % amount of road accidents goes on distracted drivers. Then we waste time in traffic.
Solution: No WiFi, jam mobile connection
Result: Silence and way less douchebags as customers.
1st way Simple set up the Wifi so that their table number is recordered and add a surcharge of $1 for every 15 m they are using their devices. Explain that while on using the devices they are slowing down the service.
2nd way Another way is to if using the device and the stay is over 1 hour 30 minutes for 3 courses then a surcharge will be added.
3rd way start charging for wifi or extra if people use their devices during their meal.
Thinking out loud would there be a martket for a wifi free/ cell blocking places.
This guy had it figured out some years back. http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/16/technology/restaurant-cell-phone-discount/
Before I read this I am going to post my guess:
The staff are arrogant and think that the successs of the restaurant and of the customers, means that they are also as successful. They are not, but they think that they are at the centre of the hip and cool universe.
A health worker in Texas at the hospital where the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died last week has tested positive for the deadly virus in a preliminary test, the state's health department said on Sunday. U.S. authorities are…
Latest:
http://tersee.com/#!q=ebola&t=text
8000 Ebola victims
58 now in NZ
Smart phones used by stupid selfish people
A narcissistic generation has been born.
Cute piece, but I frankly don't believe the numbers.
Exactly....who reviews a picture for four minutes?
Can we please move on now?
I used to live in New York, and I worked in several restaurants as a waiter.
In one restaurant -- a burger-style place -- I was taking orders from a party of 14 people and one of them was talking on her cell phone. Well, I rolled my eyes a bit because that particular customer was slowing me down and risking putting me in the weeds. But, she complained to my manager that I had rolled my eyes and I was suspended for 2 weeks.
That's an example of what waiters have to deal with on a regular basis. And it's all for the glory of making $3.00 per hour and basically working for tips.
New Yorkers were the masters of self absorption long before the smart phone. Its invention has just metastasized the disease.
My nefhew attacks this phone preoccupation thing (he has many clips on the topic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPyN1g9MQ8
Wonder what the cost of his food menu was in 2004, in comparison to 2014.
Lemmings love to be attention whores. Shutdown the wifi and force them to use their own phone hotspot. Burn up their contract minutes. Restaurants make money by the chair. If they linger around as if it's a Obama Bathhouse, throw them out
/ sarc
The national posture of looking down. The creators of mobile communication devices don't want you looking up at the sky. Think of that.
Work with teens and young 20 somethings and it's true, heads bowed and texting. Considering a teen's need to "belong," the phone is a requirement or otherwise, you do not exist.
All the cell phone carriers and such must love this. A generation that MUST and NEED to have these devices.
Why do NYC restaurants suck???? And the answer is:
Because New Yorker's suck. At least that's tbe message I got from it -lol.
Hello. I am Luigi, your food server. I just got out of Sing Sing, this establishment has provided me this, my first job. I will defend this establishment with my life.
Now, what would you like?