I love discounts, so I'd do anything for one anyway. But I do love the idea of ditching the phone to dine. I cringe when I look at a table in a restaurant and see multiple people typing away at their phones. Totally defeats the purpose of doing out together! Engage! Be present!

People should not be allowed to use their cell phones at restaurants. It is rude to the staff and rude to their fellow dinners. We always survived without them in the past, why can't we take an hour off from them?

If my daughter was with us, no problem. Without her I would want to keep it on just in case a sitter needs to talk with me.

People who bring their cellphones into restaurants are just plain RUDE!!

If you are an MD or PD, FD or EMT personnel, phones on buzz are OK....followed by a polite excusing self from other diners to take an emergency call in a private area. Truly don't care to hear all about a stranger's life..whether I'm in Walmart, at a ball game, in a restaurant or elsewhere. If all cell users were considerate of others, there'd never be a problem.

I always worry that a child or older relative will need me, and immediately. That I would not get the call from assisted living that my aunt was on her way to the emergency room...Yeah, we lived without them, but once we lived without forks or napkins. But an restaurant that offered a discount is offering a choice. I might say "No, thank you." but choice is good. (I do turn the cell phone ringer off at church of course.)

I have had my cell phone for 5 years, use it very rarely. To be honest, I don't like it because I seldom talk on the phone (usually my daughter and we use the "land line" for the most part. My phone is not a "smart" phone (wouldn't know how to use one anyway). I have never leearned how to turn my phone on or off. The battery just dies, I recharge & ask my son to turn it on. I've never text anyone, don't know if my phone can do that. Don't know if it takes pictures, and, just found out that there are 2 games on the foolish thing. Never bothered to play them because the printing on the directions is so bloody small I can't read them!!! I've lived most of my life without one, but, my family insists I have one for an emergency (like having a phone will help me, most likely the battery will be dead, anyway). The young can keep their technology. I still do math with paper & pencil, read with a book. I guess I'm proof that you can't "teach an old dog new tricks". I'm lucky I can even use this foolish machine (its over 7 years old & I still don't what it's capable of doing).

I am in the same category as Fiscal Conservative but unfortunately the rest of the world does not think it can live without a phone,whether dining or driving. People can't even buy a loaf of bread without calling home first to discuss it. People in a restaurant should not be talking on the phone ,they can text if their dining companions don't object.

Peaple use cell phones in sharon public library !

I could honestly care less what the person at the next table is doing as long as its not disruptive. I don't care if some one has a phone or doesn't, text or talks (in a average tone) on a phone, has a napkin in there lap or is using the proper folk, if they had the chicken or fish. I really don't care about why the person on the other side of the restaurant is texting.

Now with that said if a person is being disruptive and yelling into the phone, the phones ring tone is extremely loud, or is generally talking to loud I do find that rude. If some one is talking on a phone in a calm normal voice how is it any different than them talking to the person across the table in the same tone? Either way I'm not going to eavesdrop on them or care less how they choose to spend there time.

I also find it rude when I'm out to eat with a person and they are more concerned with what's going on with people around us and not focusing on me or the group.

That's L.A. Come talk to me when a restaurant at Legacy Place offers to do this, then I'll care.

Chad B's comments made a lot of sense.

I think it is a great idea. Everyone loves a discount. I have noticed that many times when I am out to dinner, I am constantly looking at my phone, texting other people... it takes away from the person I am with.

Can't anyone go anywhere any longer without one of these foolish things? Man, I must be a dinosaur, because my life doesn't revolve around technology. It's no wonder today's students rank so low in knowledge throughout the world. They can manipulate video games, text and talk. Yet, they can't read, write, spell correctly or do math without the aid of a calculator. Says a lot for the sorry state the country is in and what the future holds for the USA. Thank God most of my days are behind me.

Just an offbeat question..Cellphones have been around for what...10-15 years or so?...Who exactly decides what cellphone ediquet actually is?...Is there a cellphone law book..out an about? So let me get this straight.. someone says it's bad manners to text or talk on the phone at the table in a restaurant, but it's ok for a nursing mother to whip out a boob and feed a child in a restaurant? Funny how things sometimes work. Well...is there a written code of ethics when it comes to cellphones?

Just me! It is ok for a mother to feed her child anywhere. If its ok for you to eat in a restaurant you bet its ok to feed a child. I cannot stand when people talk negatively about breastfeeding.

I feed my child anywhere. I get very offended if someone were to suggest to me that, in a place where people are EATING, that my child should not be permitted to EAT.

As far as cell phones go, I am not a huge cell phone user myself. I put my phone on vibrate when I am in a place such as a restaurant or a doctor's' office, excuse myself, and take the call or answer the text outside.

I see some comments made are by some VERY Self Centered people who believe they can do as they please, where they please and be darned about anyone else. Civility, manners and most importantly COMMON SENSE is lacking. These people, who do not see anything wrong with disrupting another's dinner should eat at McDonald's. It's always loud there.

While I'm against using the cell phone at the dinner table, I don't get one argument.

Why is someone talking on a cell phone at a table near you and more distracting than that same person talking with the person they are sitting with? Either way they a talking- why is to the person in front them fine, but to the person on the other end of the line rude? Either way, it's a conversation they are choosing to have publicly.

I mean, a group of eight people sitting and chatting at a restaurant is usually far louder and far more distracting that one person sitting and chatting on his or her cell phone. Why is one thing considered rude, the other acceptable?

If you're in a restaurant where the conversation level is high to begin with, and it's LOUD, then I have no problem with people using their cell phones. If the restaurant is quiet, and the conversation level is low, then people shouldn't be using their cell phones. I'm not going to flip out on someone using their cell phone at TGI Fridays if it's super loud in there to begin with. PLUS if people bring in screaming, crying kids, then who cares if I'm talking to my friend on a phone. It's Romper Room in here for God's sake!

To each his own...

I would gladly give up my cell phone to enjoy dinner with my wife, my friends and my family. A cell phone, a smart device or both... we can live without them for a few hours! Having incentive would make it better.

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