I totally support the phone-free bar and restaurant experience and encouraging people to socialize verbally instead of online but the thing is that I like to eat breakfast alone.

It's a meditative process to me. There's nothing better than sitting in a greasy spoon looking out at a rainy day eating bacon and hashbrowns while sipping coffee and reading the newspaper. Just watching the world and gthe people go by while flipping and folding the pages of a large newspaper. That's bliss.

Now that newspapers aren't really a thing anymore I like to read the news on my phone, or a paper about a topic that interests me.

It's good to promote socializing as long as it doesn't come at the expensive at reflective processes.