Do you know how attached you are to your cell phone? If you don’t, then a new discount offered at Eva Restaurant in Los Angeles will help you find out.
The new policy offers 5 percent off the total bill to diners that leave their cell phones at the door.
Eva’s owner and chef, Mark Gold, said that policy was implemented to motivate diners to sit back and enjoy their food and the people that are actually there with them.
“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,” he told radio station KPCC. “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.”
Gold told KPCC that about half of his patrons have taken advantage of his offer.
In recent years, technology has become almost unavoidable in restaurants. It seems like food paparazzi are always at the ready to take pictures of their food and upload it to various social media such as Instagram and Pinterest. Not to mention legions of diners tapping away at their smart phones and taking calls, oblivious to those around them.
Other restaurants have implemented policies to try and hinder cell phone usage, but Gold hopes that his new policy will motivate people to stop doing something that he is also guilty of.
“I’m guilty of it as well. When my wife and I go to dinner it seems like the cell phone is part of the table setting now. Every table you look at, it’s a wine glass, the silverware and the cell phone,” he joked.
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