A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building.
Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens.
He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevents them entering the interior of the building.
Why you hating on millennials, Bro?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Dunbal on Friday September 30 2016, @11:59PM
Perhaps you need to move up-market a little. I have no trouble talking with my wife at the restaurants I go to. Of course dinner is usually over $150.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @10:19AM
Dinner for $150?!? That costs more than my date charges.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Dunbal on Saturday October 01 2016, @11:47AM
I rest my case.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @10:12PM
If you're taking a hooker out to dinner you're doing it wrong...
(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday October 01 2016, @02:56PM
If you've got that kind of money, great. But it's beyond fucked up that you have to spend that kind of money to get some peace and quiet while eating out.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday October 01 2016, @05:55PM
Depends on where you live. NYC has an extremely competitive restaurant scene. You can get quiet, excellent places for a couple dollars more than McDonald's. Many travellers opt for fast food chains when visiting a new city, thinking it's the cheapest option, but if Soylentils happen to visit NYC I'd urge them to go for real restaurants. They will have a vastly better experience than TGIFriday's and wind up spending about the same. If you're really on a budget, check out Yelp for the food carts. There are some in Midtown and other neighborhoods that regularly form lines.
Washington DC delenda est.