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SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – A Seattle restaurant asked a customer to leave because he was wearing Google Glass.
Nick Starr, a video teleconference network engineer, posted on his Facebook page that he and his partner were at the Lost Lake Cafe and Lounge.
Starr was told by an employee that they didn’t allow people to wear Google Glass at the eatery.
He claims he’s worn them at the restaurant before and, while people were curious, no one had ever told him to put them away or leave.
Rather than push the issue, Starr left.
CBSNews.com confirmed with Lost Lake Cafe and Lounge that they do not allow Google Glass to be worn at their establishment.
This is kind of ridiculous.
Can you elaborate on what you think is ridiculous? The actions of the google glass wearer or the actions of the restaraunt.
Personally, I think the restaraunt owner was well within his rights in protecting his customers. If I brought a video camera in a restaraunt and was recording people, most likely I would be asked to leave. The same goes for an iphone if they think you are recording someone. People need to learn that some toys don't belong in a restaraunt.
Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass « CBS Seattle
Good on the business owner for protecting his customers.
The restaurant owner. Ridiculous to throw someone out over a piece of benign tech.
It has the capability to record people without their knowledge and then upload it to social media sites. I wouldn't want that in a restaraunt either if I was eating there. Some toys belong at home or they need to be adults and put them away when going into a big boy place.
It has the capability to record people without their knowledge and then upload it to social media sites. I wouldn't want that in a restaraunt either if I was eating there. Some toys belong at home or they need to be adults and put them away when going into a big boy place.
It is also that person's property and they can do with it what they wish.
People usually have like 8 different things on them at all times that can do that.
This whole story just seems weird.
Also, it doesn't matter if people like it or not, we are headed in this direction.
Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass « CBS Seattle
Good on the business owner for protecting his customers.
Weird or not, the owner has a right to allow things in his restaraunt or not.
Has no relevance on whether or not they are a douche.
Has no relevance on whether or not they are a douche.
If you don't like it, don't eat there.
So, in your opinion, if someone doesn't bow to your self-centered need to satisfy your own whims, they're a douche? Not feeling too entitled, are you?
Again, missing the point. We're commenting on his action. Not whether he has the right to do what he did or if we would eat there.
And that's fine, I don't think he did anything wrong and if someone came in with that I'd ask them to remove it to.
Again, missing the point. We're commenting on his action. Not whether he has the right to do what he did or if we would eat there.
Which would be silly and technophobic. It's also a sentiment that I'm sure will spike as the technology rolls out and recede as younger generations who are prepared to accept it and are acclimated towards it come to the fore.
More like throwing someone out of your business because your scared of a piece of tech is kind of douchey.
What's the difference between this and a restaurant that doesn't allow you to be seated if you don't have a shirt or shoes or if you aren't wearing a suit and tie? So the restaurant decides they have rules for serving customers in their establishment, big deal. The sense of entitlement that young people have today is incredible.
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