tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post579659848416701693..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #14285Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-5693568605575352252014-10-14T09:47:39.768-05:002014-10-14T09:47:39.768-05:00http://kixs.com/the-cell-phone-slows-restaurant-se...http://kixs.com/the-cell-phone-slows-restaurant-service-story-going-viral-has-some-holes-in-it/mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-24607848765614447752014-10-14T09:41:23.105-05:002014-10-14T09:41:23.105-05:00to be clear about my comment - i don't doubt t...to be clear about my comment - i don't doubt that diners these days are spending more time on their communication devices, etc than previously, and it is possible that this is delaying service - but the cover story and the detailed statistics are clearly bogus, with the stench of "truthiness" about them - the fortuitously discovered tapes from ten years ago, "loaded up on a large monitor, and next to it on a separate monitor loaded up the footage" of ten years later - that's how you would show something to an audience in the movies, it's not how you would actually study something like this - this is fiction<br /><br />Tulsatime, you saw this article before, about "that restaurant" - but no restaurant is stated in the article ckm3 has referred us to<br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-89383724436104818452014-10-14T09:37:47.606-05:002014-10-14T09:37:47.606-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-18224809612937601032014-10-13T18:48:56.443-05:002014-10-13T18:48:56.443-05:00I saw an article about that restaurant in NYC a mo...I saw an article about that restaurant in NYC a month or two ago, comparison of times between 2004 and 2014, with the increased times due to selfies and photos of food, waiter, etc.., I can believe it very easily<br />Tulsatimenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-35237190453103203642014-10-13T14:32:29.444-05:002014-10-13T14:32:29.444-05:00I wuld agree it is quite likely exaggerated, but ...I wuld agree it is quite likely exaggerated, but not wholly fictional based on repeated observations in our local middle-class restaurants. More and more it seeems going to lunch is about catching up on Facebook and not about the eating or the companions and most certainly not about the food.<br />Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-21334634891503516312014-10-13T12:44:17.874-05:002014-10-13T12:44:17.874-05:00re the restaurant experience story - one commenter...re the restaurant experience story - one commenter posted there had the same reaction that i did - this appears to be a fictional account, and deserves to be debunked on snopesmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com