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Improve your restaurant behavior!
Restaurant behavior needs to be improved
by The Republican
Wednesday July 16, 2008, 9:16 AM
OFF THE MENU
By HUGH ROBERT
Perhaps I'm just cranky from midsummer heat and humidity, but lately I've found patron behavior in restaurants to be more reprehensible than ever.
Not everyone's a lout or bore when they're dining out, of course. It does seem, however, that civility in public accommodations is becoming scarcer by the day.
Kids are a blessing, but not when their parents allow them to ruin the dining experience for others.
If youngsters are a bit unruly in a fast food place, it's an annoyance, nothing more. Children behaving badly in a white tablecloth, sit-down restaurant, however are a public menace, as I'm sure most patrons and employees would agree.
I've even seen tykes brought to wine dinners, a place they have no business being until they've reached the age of majority.
Picture taking is another form of intrusive behavior some thoughtlessly choose to inflict on others. Two or three flash pictures during dinner is more than enough, but one evening a party at a table next to mine went through a full 24-exposure roll.
Then, of course, there are the cell phone users who are so important they can't be out of touch for even an hour or so, and thus inflict their telephone banality on all within earshot.
Too many people, it appears, now feel it's perfectly acceptable to treat the whole restaurant as if it was their own personal space to do with as they please. No matter to them that the experience of others is spoiled by their lack of consideration.
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