Local iPad expert (and SFist Editor) Brock Keeling (pictured) weighs in on the controversy surrounding some gals watching tennis on their iPad while eating at Flour + Water last week:
When horrible Bay Area diners aren’t taking photos of their food (stop that, please), sporting shorts and a North Face jacket (stop that too, please), or having a bowel evacuation in the bathroom (restaurant loos are for peeing and hand washing only), they’re now watching epic sporting battles on their iPads. Very rude. Very self-centered. (Then again, so is worrying over the behavior of other customers, which is really none of our business. We digress.)
But. The invention of the iPad is also a blessing in disguise for patrons and parents alike. Why? Because kids love — like, instinctively love and understand — the iPad. They just do. Add a pair of headphones and you have the perfect quiet-child-in-restaurant scenario.
Read on for the full story.
 Brock Keeling (pictured) weighs in on the controversy surrounding some gals watching tennis on their iPad while eating at Flour + Water last week: When horrible Bay Area diners aren’t taking photos of their food (stop that, please), sporting shorts and a North Face jacket (stop that too, please), […]</p>
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Yet another restaurant-industry employee that thinks they know best how everyone should behave.
This guy would get along well with that bitchy bartender from a few weeks back.
Yes. And I’ll go further, to say that everyone should take pictures of their food, if they feel like it, and post it online — it’s the only remedy for Yelp. And restaurant toilets are primarily for PUKING INTO, in case that remedy has somehow avoided SOMEONE’S attention…
answer: who gives a fuck
I do. But I have no idea why.
I hear Flour + Water is a great place to take a dump.
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I could not care less if you’re watching someone on an Ipad, as long as I can’t HEAR it then it really isn’t impacting on my life at all.
Seriously — the thing that strikes me as weird here is that anyone is paying that much attention to what other people are doing at their own table. If I can’t hear it and it’s not so outrageously attention-getting that it’s impossible to ignore, it’s really none of my business.
I’d say being self-centered is expecting that people don’t take a shit IN A FUCKING BATHROOM. I’d like to propose that gingers not be allowed to wear shorts, ever.
Unless you’re under 12 y/o OR so old that you still listen to the radio, you should never defecate in a restaurant bathroom. There are other, less putrid ways to mark your territory.
And, as a redhead, I try never to wear shorts in public. It’s just good manners.
Your insistence that people should not use toilets for their intended purpose is truly bizarre. One more thing to talk to your shrink about…
Oh that’s right…in the mission we’re suppose to take a shit in the street!
Grow up — wear an adult diaper!
you seriously think that? why do mens restrooms have sit down toilets? to admire their gleam? or to be respectful of those who choose to sit. brock, youre a sitter, huh?
Giving in to human bodily functions is for the weak! THIS IS WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA
never seeing another food photo again would be totes cool. shit happens tho, shit in the shitter shitface
Totes? Like total tool?