Discount For Diners Not Using Their Mobile- What Do People Think Of This

[gordiescotland1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-43181353

Personally I think it is a great idea, there is nothing more annoying than someone sitting a table speaking in a loud voice, or a date sitting next to you always looking at their phone very off putting I hope this catches on.
What do others think?

[ummmm]

I'm not attached to mine either. I once left it in the office for over a week and didn't know.

Ducksie, the phone in the large pub we use is on the other side of the pub from where we sit. I'd be leaving my eating companion much longer than picking up my phone and telling the caller where I am.

[youngmafbog]

My kids are in their mid 20's to mid thirties.

I am the brat baby sitter for my Grandson.

I'm surprised you had a signal in a village in the 1990's.

[murraymints]

Very bad manners to plonk a mobile on the table..even more so if one starts checking/ sending texts... not allowed at my table !

[youngmafbog]

Well your earlier statements would rather seem to contradict that statement. But fine if you say so.

[DTCwordfan]

I'll text over my answer.....

[murraymints]

Neither will I dine where "children are welcome " so few know how to behave and cause disruption....

[ducksie]

I have nothing against mobile phones really ummmm, I was reading through and read it that sqad was suggesting tell the family the number of where you'd be. I'd know if I left mine away for a week as I depend on it for contact with family on daily basis

[ummmm]

Young, was that aimed at me? If so I thought Sqad was talking about a home line for the kids to use. We haven't got one.

[Kromovaracun]

I think it's a petty and invasive idea.

I do wish that ticket inspectors would enforce the "quiet carriage" on trains, though. I always sit in them and cannot stand listening to the idiot droning forever on his/her phone who invariably chooses to sit behind me.

[ducksie]

Yes, there was a signal, it was run by a Swedish network and I had it for work, It was only a gimmick song released in 2009

[DTCwordfan]

A chef-owner did this to a customer's phone in London when the customer carried on and on using the mobile despite notices asking the clientel to refrain....he went off to the loo and the chef took the phone.

[Sqad]

ummmm....So......you haven't got a landline....fine.....many haven't.

Your kids at home have got mobiles AND assuming that the restaurant/pub has a landline......why not give the kids that number and not your mobile?

[ducksie]

It was at me ummm, young referred to a brat free pub and having a phone since 2009

[youngmafbog]

No it was not "aimed" at you it was in reply to you.

I understood fro Sqad's posts that your children could use their mobiles to call a landline in the Restaurant/Pub. As many people managed for years.

[andy-hughes]

I think we are agreed pretty much - this is a gimmick designed to drum up some business, so fair play to them.

[Sqad]

That is not my analysis of this thread Andy.
We are not ALL agreed (even pretty much) that is is a gimmick to drum up business.
There is even a body of opinion which indicates that they would LOSE business.

[ummmm]

Because usually my kids will out. If they were in they'd have no reason to call me really.

[Sqad]

ummmm....LOL.....so if the kids are out, why can't they still dial a landline from their mobiles to contact you?

[ummmm]

Im not traipsing across the pub to take a phone call when I do at my table, quietly, and in seconds.

[Jackdaw33]

...or go to a phone booth, put 4d in the box then press button A.