A new restaurant epidemic

Being back in LA for the past month and a half in a hip LA restaurant not only has me yearning to get back to traveling and being abroad, but has lead to a realization; people have lost all respect for the 'dining experience', not to mention one another! It is on a regular basis that food goes cold table side because all parties involved are on their phones, not eating, not talking. From my personal experience when I go out to dine and am spending a pretty penny on what I'm eating I want to thoroughly enjoy the food and the company I'm with.

In the future I see this as a real challenge for restaurants, not only in having people properly enjoy the food and beverages but in table turn times because minutes are being added in every step of the process, from taking pictures of the food to messaging their entire family half way through the first dish!

The other aspect of this epidemic is that there is now apparently a new dining utensil that needs its' place at the table. Large cell phones! Restaurants do everything they can to keep things neat and tidy at the table but today people just move their share plates and  silverware so that they can lean on the tables and have their phone right next to their hand at all times! What happened to general tableside etiquette? 

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