Hello, Can You Hear me? Hello!

“Sir, what can I get for you”? The man points to a item on the menu and shakes his head yes. As I walk away, I hear in a loud tone “Did you get that”? I turn back around and start to reply to the man and he isn’t talking to me but is on the phone. I continue to walk away and can still here the man talking loudly. This is a common situation in the restaurant world.
Many people come into have dinner by themselves and still have a lot of business to attend too with other people and the cell phone is the only way to make that possible. I love my cell phone, I just do! So I can understand that the man has issues to attend to, but when is it just plain rude? Cell phones are a new big world for most people and many people just don’t know the right etiquette for cell phones. In the article “Where are all the Wireless Manners“? posted by CNN.com states “A recent poll by market research company Synovate showed that 70 percent of 1,000 respondents observed manner-less technology use in others at least on a daily basis”. When eating by yourself it is alright to text other people, but make sure your phone is put on the vibrate option instead of a loud ring-tone. Texting isn’t fine when dinning with other people and that’s a whole new set of rules. I will write about dinning manners with other people in another post.
I think when people are on a business trip and are dinning alone, they may want to pick and choose where they decide to eat and take that important call. A place where people are celebrating their 50th anniversary and are trying to enjoy a nice expensive dinner, isn’t the place for your loud phone call. You may want to try eating at a low key restaurant, if you’re going to have to take important phone calls, maybe Wendy’s.  A good choice is “take-out” so you will be taking your phone calls in your hotel room and not in a fine dinning restaurant. If it is all possible turn your phone off and enjoy your one hour of dinner by yourself. No matter how you look at it, it’s just plan rude in almost all situations.

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