Want 5% Off Your Restaurant Bill? This Place Will Give It to You If You Leave Your Phone
- Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:07pm by
Liz Klimas
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Next time you sit down at a restaurant, take a look around you. How many patrons are talking, texting or playing on their phones?
One Los Angeles restaurant is hoping to change this increasing trend by offering customers a discount if they agree to check their phone at the door. Southern California Public Radio reports the owner and chef of Eva Restaurant, Mark Gold, saying that the incentive is not because phones are disruptive in a dining setting but because “Eva is home, and we want to create that environment of home.”
“It’s about two people sitting together and just connecting, without the distraction of a phone, and we’re trying to create an ambiance where you come in and really enjoy the experience and the food and the company.”
How has the deal been received at the restaurant so far? SCPR reports Gold saying a little less than half of customers have parted with their beloved phone.
“I think once the server approaches the table and they’re presented with the offer, they like the idea of actually talking to each other again,” he said to SCPR.
Listen to Gold’s interview here.
(H/T: Gizmodo)
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ExSophus
Posted on August 18, 2012 at 5:10amAnyone can extract virtually ALL the data in your phone within seconds, using a widely available tool. It’s already being used by police in some US states to ROUTINELY extract data in real-time at even traffic stops.
The handheld tool, BYPASSES any password no matter how complicated and trigger a total memory dump. It extracts data from your phone’s phonebook, emails, browser history, media files (photos, videos, and audio), stored personal notes and schedules, stored text messages, SIM card, etc.
The tools are compatible with and can extract data from many manufacturer’s cellphones.
All someone needs is a minute with your phone and they have it ALL.
Report Post »lbk
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 8:33pmI don’t believe anyone asks that you hand your cell phone over. Just leave it locked in your glove compartment or in your trunk. People HAVE become sooooo rude. It doesn’t seem to matter where you are….JUST PLAIN RUDE! As far as an emergency, I remember when my son was little and with a baby sitter while out for the evening—the sitter knew where I was and had the phone number (landline) for an emegency..I also called every hour to check how things were going. Aahhh, the old days. A little common sense and a LOTof courtesy still go a long way. Beside, I reall don’t need to know your private business.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 1:22pmHe should come up with a better metaphor. Most people still have and use their cell phones at home.
There are other places that require you to check in your cell phone – mostly strip clubs. So maybe the owner really lives at a strip club and he wants his patrons to get naked. lol.
Report Post »loltheblaze
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:07pmParagraph 2 contains the terms “Los Angeles” and “we want to create that environment of home”. I stopped reading at that point.
LA lives in a fantasy land. So is most of Kalifornia as far as I can tell.
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 11:49pmEven the Sahara desert has an oasis.
Report Post »h20sue
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:43pmAs a small business owner (for the time being), I keep a phone on constantly. I turn it off when at 6:00 PM sharp, and off on weekends. People can leave a message if it’s that important, or they can EMAIL ME! I don’t need the hassles of Texting, Apps, Tweeting, and my family doesn’t use this. You have no idea how many phone companies can’t fatham that we love our flip phones, and just don’t want all the new technology. Why? Because they can’t make MONEY OFF US! Unlike Obama, we have a budget…
Report Post »ColoradoWest
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:39pmJeez…just buy a cell phone jammer and have fun while silencing the phones around you! http://www.globalgadgetuk.com!
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:38pmNeat idea, but I think it is illegal in the US to jam FCC approved signals.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:45amIt depends on where you are at. I work at Great Lakes Naval Training Center and they have scramblers scattered all over.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 7:23amI thought it was illegal for everyone BUT the Federal government to jam phones.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:04pmI like the idea, I have a phone for one purpose talking or texting friends and family, I don’t have or want all that other crap. I have one complaint though what if the babysitter needs to get a hold of you over a situation at home? It is rude and makes no sense to go out on a date all the while talking or texting someone else.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:59pmhow about a discount for not bringing in annoying babies?
Report Post »TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 11:03pmWhere would all the Republicans eat then?
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 11:51pmAt Chick-fil-a silly…
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:49pmI liked it better before the cell phone ? now people just talk about stupid stuff all the time ? I think they are addicted and need to go cold turkey and hang up !!!!!!
Report Post »hades3
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:39pmWhen in a public place, never let anything that has personal info out of your sight, including credit cards. I hate hand held devices. It would be simple just to leave them at home, and pay cash for service. For those who do not know the meaning of “cash”, allow me….it’s money, legal tender , mullah, dinero, etc., etc. For anyone who still don’t get it……..just Google it !
Report Post »ccprotect
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:33pmwhat if you don’t even have a phone? what if you don’t have a phone AND you are a Christian? do you still get the discount and if you do, which one was it for? one of the options will get them sued.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:28pmActually what they are trying to do is hack peoples phone while they eating. What a great scam, and I bet the food is full of calories, sugar, and salt. And these owners are probably making a PROFIT, evil, evil, vile, capitalist. And they didn’t build that, they had help, if it wasn’t for Obama making everybody hungry by eating all that junk food, then having his wife make us loose our lunch, these horrible, mean, restaurant owners wouldn’t have customers.
I can’t wait for Joe Biden to show up and not be let in, then these mean people will get theirs.
This is Nancy Pelosi, and I am a start raving wench, who wants all businesses in California to pay me money, and make me Queen.
And I approve of Botox. Off with their heads.
Report Post »ccprotect
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:41pma perfect sarcasm rant.. how close is this to reality is the freighting part.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:26pmI’m one of the few people in the West who is under 35 and chooses not to carry a cell phone.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:58pmAre you Amish by chance?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:05pmhaha!
No, I just think inaccessibility is a luxury to be cherished and maintained.
Try it one day.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:26pmI tried, but my wife found me and made me turn my phone back on, and I had to pick up eggs and milk.
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:30pmMr. Butcher,
Report Post »I am not under 35 but not far away, I am a very tech savvy guy, and I too am in the ranks of no cell phone. It was funny, a early 20 something once asked me for my cell phone number. I told him I don’t have one, and here is my land line. I about laughed when he asked “whats a land line?”
stumpy68
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:09pmMy cell phone stays off until i need to make a call
Report Post »i use it and turn it off if someone wants me leave a message on my home phone or
send an email i check both when i get home.
JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:21pmI think it’s a great idea. There are a lot of public venues where inconciderate people talking loudly on their phones annoys me. It’s a free country and their phone, however, I hope this idea catches on, it would be a pleasant change to sit in a restaraunt and enjoy a nice meal with pleasant conversation without being subjected to somebody elses phone conversation because they talk so loudly on their phone with no consideration of other people. Do they have a right to talk on their phone? Yes. Do they need to scream? No. Should they show a little consideration to the people around them? Yes. Please excuse me for my rant. I feel better now. Thank you!!!!!!
Report Post »hi
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:20pmHow would I post a comment on the Blaze during dinner if they took my phone away?
Report Post »PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:20pmThat’s discrimination, I want to sue! I’m entitled to have my phone on me at all times /sarc
If you have a phone you’re worried about being hacked in the 30-45 minute time frame to enjoy a meal then maybe a better password/phone lock is a better option. Just sayin’ :)
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:18pmAs long as they provided individual tiny little phone lockers with keys
Report Post »BellaMia7
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:11pmWould never hand my phone over to someone. Never. Who knows what they could do with it or information they could hack from it.
Report Post »JimCS
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:18pmI can’t wait for this phone fad to blow over.
Report Post »Valuable
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:39pm@JIMCS-
I feel the same way about cars and airplanes.
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