Originally Posted by
United747
But it using the phone with sound on would really annoy me. Was that what they were doing?
No, the sound was turned off. I think we would have complained to staff if it wasn't.
Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
You would have hated it when, during dinner, my wife asked the chef at a 3* restaurant in France if we could take a picture with him and he said sure and called over the maitre de to take the picture and posed between my wife and I for the picture.
I do respect that people want to take a picture as a keepsake now and again.
But I find it compromises the atmosphere if people are constantly having their phone on the table and are texting, if they stand up multiple times to take photo shots, take shots of the food, ask the waiter to take shots of them, and so on. Not everything needs to be documented.
I would find it poor etiquette, too, if somebody read a newspaper or showed up in jogging pants in a Michelin-starred restaurant. It's not a railway station concourse or a business lounge, for God's sake!