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Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass

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Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass « CBS Seattle

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.

Good on the business owner for protecting his customers.
 
I thought only the police could do that. ;)
 
This is kind of ridiculous.
 
I don't get it, but it's his business and, if he wants to lose potential customers, he can run it as he sees fit. Not sure why this is *Breaking News* or why this is even news...
 
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.
 
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.

The restaurant owner. Ridiculous to throw someone out over a piece of benign tech.
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
It is also that person's property and they can do with it what they wish.

It is PRIVATE property that they are on. The owner has a right to set the rules. Much like if an owner doesn't permit guns on their premises it is their right to so.
 
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.

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.

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?
 
The owner's well within his rights to do that. I'm not sure its the best policy though. It's not really a big deal either way though, I'm not sure how this made the news.
 
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?

More like throwing someone out of your business because your scared of a piece of tech is kind of douchey.
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

Your opinion noted. Sometimes toys need to be left at home.
 
More like throwing someone out of your business because your scared of a piece of tech is kind of douchey.

Who says he's "scared" of a piece of tech? You? Maybe he's just respecting his customers who want to have a quiet, private meal. Some people still honor manners and a sense of decorum - not so much young people and their tech toys. Douchey is in the eye of the beholder.
 
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.

Shirt and shoes are typically demanded because of standards of decency and decor for an establishment as well as hygiene. This is simple fear of technology. We aren't entitled, no one has said he should be forced to let people wearing Glass to his restaurant. What we are saying is that it is foolish. Like I said before this sentiment will erode as our generation and the ones that will come after us take to the fore.
 
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