"Perhaps You'd Like That With a Nokia Garnish?"

Michael Mauer on cellphones in restaurants.  The most amazing example of this I saw was at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago, where parties on both sides of me whipped out their phones to take a call while we were all eating.  Come on -- I paid $300.00 for a meal there, and I've got to listen to a disembodied half of someone's inane conversation at more than casual conversation volume?  My restaurant is going to have either walls impenetrable to cellphone signals, or a "cellphone" area, akin to smoking areas in other restaurants. 

Comments

[Maura]

Hell, Joe. I'd go all the way with a rule stating "No cell phones under pain of no dessert." You know I love my rules.