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YOUR TURN: Would You Turn Off Your Cellphone During Dinner for a Discount?

One restaurant in L.A. is offering a 5 percent discount to patrons who ditch their phones during their meal. Would you like to see this in the nearby area?

Face it, if there was a way to grow a third arm specifically to hold your cell phone, many of us would jump at the chance. 

But running counter to the "can't live without a connection" population is one restaurant in Los Angeles that is literally paying customers to keep their phones away from their meal, according to the Los Angeles Times

Eva Restaurant in L.A. is offering diners a 5 percent discount on their bill if they dump their digital devices before being seated, according the L.A. Times. 

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Is this something that you'd like to see happen at any of the nice restaurants in the nearby area? Or does the idea of ditching your phone during dinner start to make you twitch?

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