I don't need them to do that, I do it my self, I turn OFF my phone each time I go into a restaurant, more for me than anyone else.
If I can't have a lousy 30 or 40 minutes to eat MY lunch or have dinner without worrying about my stupid phone, then I have no life. The phone is for MY convience not for every Tom, Dick, & Harry that thinks they have to have access to me every waking second of the day.
Eatery Offers 5% Off to Diners Who Check Cell Phones at Door. Could You Do It?
Good Morning America
2012/08/16 23:00:00
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Brian 2012/08/17 00:28:17
I don't use it in restaurants or other inappropriate places. I leave it not only on silent, but disable the vibrate alert, also. I barely pick my phone up as it is, because my time is limited and valuable to me. Most of the time, I am with my family, working, studying, driving, or sleeping, and those are not times to be yapping on the phone.
I prefer to screen my calls, and if work is calling and I can't pick up the phone, they always leave a message and don't get bent out of shape if I'm not answering. Actually, everyone is so used to it and knows my preference, no one gets bent out of shape about it at all. They just leave a message, and if it's someone important, I always call back when I can. I have very few people who I will pick it up to talk to at ANY time - my boyfriend, my great aunt, my neice, my boyfriend's aunt, and our kids - or if it is a work or other critical call.
Even then, I follow the example of my grandfather - "if they didn't leave a message, it must not have been too important." (This, years before cell phones and call waiting were common, and answering machines were "all the rage" - my dad had one of those big honking monstrosities you had to car...
I don't use it in restaurants or other inappropriate places. I leave it not only on silent, but disable the vibrate alert, also. I barely pick my phone up as it is, because my time is limited and valuable to me. Most of the time, I am with my family, working, studying, driving, or sleeping, and those are not times to be yapping on the phone.
I prefer to screen my calls, and if work is calling and I can't pick up the phone, they always leave a message and don't get bent out of shape if I'm not answering. Actually, everyone is so used to it and knows my preference, no one gets bent out of shape about it at all. They just leave a message, and if it's someone important, I always call back when I can. I have very few people who I will pick it up to talk to at ANY time - my boyfriend, my great aunt, my neice, my boyfriend's aunt, and our kids - or if it is a work or other critical call.
Even then, I follow the example of my grandfather - "if they didn't leave a message, it must not have been too important." (This, years before cell phones and call waiting were common, and answering machines were "all the rage" - my dad had one of those big honking monstrosities you had to carry in a suitcase for his car back then, though.) My grandfather also said "if it takes longer than five minutes, go see them, or have them come see you - don't hang on it and tie up the line. Say what you need to say and then get off it." There are only two people, to this day, that I take longer than that to communicate what I need to say to - my great aunt and my neice. Those two really love to yap :D
I just don't want to hand it over, is all. If I am at a restaurant, it's either in my handbag or on my belt loop and I "conveniently forget" entirely about it - I would rather be enjoying the food and the company.
I certainly wouldn't surrender my phone for a measly 5% discount.