Originally Posted by 1flyer

No, the sound was turned off. I think we would have complained to staff if it wasn't.

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!