This right here is the most degenerate, Huxley-level shit in America right now. Have you seen these yet?
Many restaurants, especially "family chains," have added these tablet kiosks over the years. They allow you to call your server, order, or pay your bill, but they also include games, videos, camera apps, music... all sorts of shit like a full-on tablet. Many restaurants have them at every table and ask that you only use the tablets to pay or order rather than speak to a server.
My wife and I took her niece out to a cheap family place to meet one of my wife's friends and her kids, and the whole experience was surreal. The two 5-year old girls with us fought over the tablet the entire meal, hardly touching their food, and took photos of themselves using a Snapchat-like app the entire time. The 9-year old boy at the table was allowed to bring his own tablet and spend the meal picking at his food but mostly playing Fortnite and some casino-style games. My wife and I disciplined our niece to actually spend time with the adults, but she was too distracted by the tech and just fell into the same habits as the other kids.
Looking around the restaurant, it was pretty much the same everywhere. The table next to us was one haggard looking couple with 4 kids, two of them teens. The teens were wearing headphones and on their phones the entire meal. The two younger kids clearly were on the spectrum or something strange, because they were violently energetic the entire meal (which is the other thing I noticed about a lot of the kids in the restaurant). One of them refused to give up the tablet for his parents to order, while the other autistic child slapped her father the entire time he was trying to eat. That family left early with their food barely touched.
And this was commonplace. Another table was 5 kids, with 1 also looking autistic, and they were all fighting over the tablet the entire meal. I saw teens on "dates" who didn't talk, just stared at their phones. An old pair of grandparents I watched shake their heads through a meal while their two grandkids played on tablets.
It doesn't help that while we were watching my wife's niece, she showed up to our house with her own phone (she's 5!) AND a tablet and refused to go to bed, eat breakfast with us, or even watch a movie without her phone or her tablet in her hand. It disgusted us, but no amount of discipline or talking to her parents made a difference. We did get her to play in the pool and hang out with other kids for nearly 4 solid hours, but that was the highlight of our experience with her this weekend. Otherwise she was glued to a screen.
Is this really what our country is becoming? A bunch of phone addicted autistic brats?
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Nathaniel Robinson
Yes. I hate it too. Try taking any college classes now, you’ll see a bunch of robots on their phones, texting the person sitting next to them rather than talking.
Eli Thomas
It's up to you to do the parenting (or uncling). It's that easy.
Hudson Powell
Don't go to fat flyover chain restaurants then.
Parker Smith
>talking during class retard
Nolan Price
I love those things, they make shit really easy to just pay and leave
just don't use the games or ask the manufacturers to add some kind of parental lock
Kayden Watson
this
Dylan Bell
There is a lot of Reddit in this post
Jaxson Carter
Didn’t say it was during class you fucking dolt. Texting in class is fucking retarded too, what are you in junior high or something?
Juan Butler
So like there's this old movie where everyone is plugged in all the time and nobody talks to each other instead they just live in these fake invented realities and there's red pills and blue pills and uh...um...er...
So like there's this current reality where everyone is plugged in all the time and nobody talks to each other instead they just live in these fake invented realities and there's red pills and blue pills and uh...um...er...
Many kids are hooked to electronics because so many people, including their parents, are stupid and lazy, and take the path of least resistance by letting the kids play with the electronics, instead pushing them to do other things.
Robert Bailey
i can never figure out where to put the cash in these things. i am one of those people who has had their card info stolen one too many times and i use cash only now.
Jackson Cook
Soooo this crapbox is unironically named ZIOsk? Wew, what a coincidence.
Easton Garcia
I've only ever seen these at Red Lobster myself.
Jose Brooks
i never go to those corporate chains, I rather pay for some Chinese buffet and support a local chink business. 20 bucks for crayfish,crab legs,and frog legs all you can eat..
Cameron Nguyen
I like them because it makes my pleb tier restaurant dining experience much more efficient. There's nothing more frustrating than an incompetent server who doesn't care about you or anything else and can't manage simple tasks. I think this is a logical response to unhappy customers like myself. We've reached the point where machines are better suited at customer service than actual people. >Tfw you go to happy hour to remind yourself that we are in a societal death spiral
This is a result of niggerdom and diversity. Everyone retreats from the shitty mongrel society in different ways, but the effect is the same overall. Total alienation and anomie.
Josiah Mitchell
Because what does a Boomer/Xer/Millenatard have to tell their kids other than, "Become a tranny nigger for freedumbs!"
They're better off ignoring them and playing Fortnite to get some practice in for the race war that awaits them.
it's a leftover from the touch hysteria I see less and less of these. actually have made such a system back it was hot. To my knowledge at least it isn't used like this in restaurants though, but in stores mostly here and in sweden.
like who cares in a fucking restaurant, you just call the waiters. that's lit their job
Landon Robinson
Grandpa its credit card only. How did you get out of the home anyway?
Ian Parker
One on the way, actually. Two months from now. Nerve wracking but I'm excited to be a dad and we both want to raise our kid like we were raised, with integrity and minimal screen time
Christian White
>have added these tablet kiosks over the years If the restaurant you go to has shit like this, go to another restaurant. I've never seen this before and I eat out every night.
Xavier Lewis
They get customers in and out of your restaurant faster and customers order more when not interacting with a human because they don't feel judged for being fat pieces of garbage for ordering the large chocolate Sunday with the extra fries and double sized drink.
Parker Young
Go to the Callender on the tablet and set notification for Friday nights "CONGRATULATIONS! you have won a free meal on the house"
Brayden Nelson
Have you actually performed research to back up this shit user, because it doesn't sound logical at all
Easton Fisher
im surrounded by beaners and shit, fuck off I dont want to talk to them 90% of the time
Juan Ross
>degenerate, Huxley-level shit Orwell level shit too, because they are undoubtedly listening to and watching you
Jaxon Baker
Yeah I take mine off the table and put it on another table. They obviously have microphones and cameras, then they ask for a questionnaire about your experience and shit. 1984 garbage, it's inescapable. Check out the 5g thread.
Michael Scott
you have to beat your children for a reason, soiboi, it instills discipline and obedience to authority, also makes them stronger people who will desire to always become stronger, unless they're a little bitch who never going to have the grit make it in life anyway
John Fisher
>wanting to interact with some single mom waitress
Justin Lopez
What do you mean? These are great! I can just pay my tab and get the fuck out of there.
