Social media has changed many things in our culture...including our vernacular.
Take, for instance, the practice of "Foodstagramming". That's when you go out for eats and snap a pic of your meal with your phone and post it for the world to see. (after adding a nifty filter and a frame of course).
Some restaurants have started banning customers from taking photos of their food, the New York Times reports, quoting several chefs in New York City.
“We get on top of those folks right away or else it’s like a circus,” Chef David Bouley said.
Rather than tell them "No"...he says they try to avert the problem before it can become a distraction...for the restaurant and for other diners.
“We’ll say, ‘That shot will look so much better on the marble table in our kitchen,’ ” Mr. Bouley said. “It’s like, here’s the sauce, here’s the plate. Snap it. We make it like an adventure for them instead of telling them no.”
But some eateries aren't so accommodating.
One diner told the Times a quick pic of her dish with her iPhone was met with an order to stop.
A man in the open kitchen asked her to please put her phone away. No photos allowed.
“I was definitely embarrassed", the woman said. She actually wanted her name withheld from the story due to being embarrassed.
“I don’t want to be that person,” she added, “But I was caught off guard,” she acknowledged.
But the problem of people going to extreme measures to get "the shot"...like standing on chairs, or even setting up tripods in some instances...can really kill the mood for others just trying to enjoy their meals.
“It’s reached epic proportions,” says Steven Hall, the spokesman for Bouley and many other restaurants, who has worked in the business for 16 years. “Everybody wants to get their shot. They don’t care how it affects people around them.”
Is banning "Food Pics" at restaurants a good idea? Have you been bothered by people around you always snapping their food? Are you guilty of "Foodstagramming"???
TV Station Profiles & Public Inspection Files forWNWO