And so it's finally come to this. While restaurants used to have smoking and non-smoking sections, some are now offering mobile phone yakking and non-mobile phone yakking sections. Actually, the restaurant is just offering a specific area where yakkers can go so that they're not bugging other diners (as opposed to an actual eating area where yakking on your phone is approved). We'd heard of similar ideas where restaurants that had old phone booths were converting them into "mobile phone" areas, but this restaurant is apparently looking to go one step further and may even provide standard phone chargers so that diners can charge up their phones as well.
Restaurant says go ahead and phone
You can leave your Portable Cellular Phone Booth behind, if you plan to dine in an upscale restaurant in Chicago, which is giving cell phone users a special room to handle those important calls.
An alcove off the main dining room at Landmark has been designated cell phone friendly. The nook, which accommodates a maximum of three people, features walls padded in fake leather and snakeskin and a leather banquette, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday, via New Kerala.
The owners said they may put battery chargers in the room for several makes of cellular phones.
"In this day and age, I don't know one person that doesn't have a cell phone," said Rob Katz, a co-owner. "And we live in a city where the weather is crazy. Why should people have to run outside to talk on the phone?" Nice!