Punch line: An LA restaurant is offering diners a 5% discount to check their technology at the door and actually talk to each other while dining instead.
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Excerpted from brandchannel.com’s “To Cell or Not – While Dining Out”
The escalating battle over digital displays in public has reached new heights…or lows…depending on your position on personal freedom versus a modicum of civility.
Between texting, tweeting and Instagram-ing restaurant meal photos, “distracted dining” is the latest scourge on the most basic of manners, the art of face-to-face conversation.
Eva Restaurant … in Los Angeles is offering diners a five percent discount on their bill to check their tech at the door.
“For us, it’s really not about people disrupting other guests. Eva is home, and we want to create that environment of home, and we want people to connect again,” said owner/chef Gold.
About half the customers … take the discount. “I think … they like the idea of actually talking to each other again,” adds Gold.
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