Restaurant Designates No-Cell-Phone Area

[Champ]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Diners at The Vineyard can distance themselves from the din of cell phone chatter. The restaurant has designated a "No-Cell-Phone" area, after customers who complained about listening to conversations from adjacent tables asked for the ban.



"We had a therapist in from New York in who was giving marriage counseling on the phone for 30 minutes and there were two other tables in the dining area and both complained," server Brittany Peacock said.


The seating preference changes with the time of day.


"At dinner there are people who don't want cell phones," Peacock said. "At lunch people come in and expect to take a call in the middle of the day and they want cell phones."


If someone receives a call while in the cell-free area, they are asked to go outside or into the other area.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20041020/ap_on_fe_st/cell_phone_ban

[southernlad]

1. Awesome.

I wanted to post this but I'm still new so I can't start a post yet. Thanks for doing that. Maybe soon I can start a post.

[Champ]

2. Welcome to DU

:hi:

You'll be able to start threads soon, just keep on posting. I look foward to seeing you around, maybe we'll have another one posting the offbeat news articles.

[southernlad]

3. Thanks for the welcome.

I appreciate. Love being here. Plus, I LOVE OFFBEAT news. It's fantastic.

[PittLib]

4. I say "bravo!"...

As a server, nothing is more annoying that having to wait for someone to finish a personal call to take an order ... or having someone answer their phone while you are talking to them ... or having to work around people who think that they are entitled to converse in entry ways or service areas. I can't tell you how many times I've nearly lost a tray of drinks exiting the service bar as some asshole on a cell darts in for a quiet place to talk - oblivious to the fact that it not a public area. Grrr. Good news and wise trend.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. Commies!!!

:silly: