Chick-fil-A resurrects family dinner with cell phone challenge

[Voted4Reagan]

http://www.king5.com/story/life/2016/03/02/chick-fil--resurrects-family-dinner-cell-phone-challenge/81219176/

Is it brilliant marketing? A great idea? Not realistic? The company's new efforts to get families to put down the phone and strike up a conversation is striking up online reaction.
Chick-fil-A (http://inside.chick-fil-a.com/all-cooped-up-how-one-chick-fil-a-operator-is-redefining-the-phrase/)has created a family challenge at some of its restaurants in which customers surrender their cell phones to a cardbox coop, covered with instructions and a promise of a reward.
The rules are:
1. Turn all family cell phones to silent and place in this cell phone coop
2. Enjoy your Chick-fil-A meal and each other distraction free!
3. After the meal, let Chick-fil-A know that your family has successfully completed the challenge and each of you will receive a small Icedream cone.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://www.king5.com/story/life/2016/03/02/chick-fil--resurrects-family-dinner-cell-phone-challenge/81219176/

Is it brilliant marketing? A great idea? Not realistic? The company's new efforts to get families to put down the phone and strike up a conversation is striking up online reaction.
Chick-fil-A (http://inside.chick-fil-a.com/all-cooped-up-how-one-chick-fil-a-operator-is-redefining-the-phrase/)has created a family challenge at some of its restaurants in which customers surrender their cell phones to a cardbox coop, covered with instructions and a promise of a reward.
The rules are:
1. Turn all family cell phones to silent and place in this cell phone coop
2. Enjoy your Chick-fil-A meal and each other distraction free!
3. After the meal, let Chick-fil-A know that your family has successfully completed the challenge and each of you will receive a small Icedream cone.

The sad part is that they are correct in that its needed.
Even my wife is finger happy texting etc. 2 million miles an hour.
I have to make her stop sometimes-its sickening, an addiction.
I rarely ever facebook, never twitter , only started doing a bit more email lately.
Up until about a year ago I only checked my email about once a week! -Tyr

[Kathianne]

A good policy and hopefully also a good marketing move.

When the kids started getting cell phones, they could not bring them to dinner table. Now it seems that adults are the one with the problem.

[Jeff]

That is a rule in my house, NO CELL PHONES AT THE TABLE. I have seen the ol lady take the kids phones quite a few times and they stay gone for at least a week, my 24 yr old thought he was above the law, yup he lost his as well :laugh:\

One Sunday we went to Biker Sunday at Church, after service we sat down with about a dozen other folks to eat, when the food came all the young folks where on their cells, the Ol lady asked if any of them where Doctors, when they said no she told them to put their dam phones away. Heck the preacher that was there still talks about that and the last time we sat down to eat with him he handed my ol lady his phone, said he didn't want to get scolded again. :laugh:

[Perianne]

In our house, we love Chick-Fil-A. We like the clean, respectful attitude of the place. You can tell it is managed by good people.

God bless Chick-Fil-A.