No TVs in Seaside restaurants

[cnestg8r]

I will offer another tack.
Bud and Alley's has four venues that have been very successful for many years. Why does Seaside management feel like they should take a governance role and tell Dave (or other proprietors) how to optimize their business? The same brush does not apply to four venues. Dave has the responsibility to understand his customers' interests in a dining experience. If he were to fail at that, his customers would make other choices.

Of course Seaside has the authority to make arbitrary rules, but then both the customers and tenants have choices to make. This is an example of high level micro-management and totally unnecessary.

 

[beachmouse]

I spent Memorial Weekend on Mackinac Island this year, including a very pleasant night at the Grand Hotel which is so old school that you take horse and carriage from the ferry docks to the hotel and formal dress is required after 6:00pm if you're in the public areas of the hotel. And they've got both cable (and wi-fi) in the guest rooms and a sports bar overlooking one of the golf courses.

Speaking of wi-fi and other internet access, seems like the tv ban is just likely to result in more folks decidng it's a good idea to fire up the iPad and watch the game at their table that way while they eat s I'm not sure how much of an impact the tv ban would have in reducing that kind of media from restaurants.

 

[BeachArkie]

Is this true? Because if it is, I will start going to those restaurants more.

TV in restaurants is out of control. I do occasionally enjoy watching a game in a bar, but an important live sporting event is rarely what is on.

Even when the sound is off, the picture is distracting if you are facing the TV, and if you sit with your back to it, you feel like other patrons are staring at you, not the TV over your head.

Just as you should be able to make it through a meal without using your cell phone, you should be able to go without the TV - especially in the age of the DVR and on-demand.

 

[scooterbug44]

Sounds good to me. Sports on tv while trying to dine is annoying as hell.

Anything on tv while trying to dine is annoying as hell. The worst is a restaurant showing some CSI type show. Nothing like a grisly murder scene and subsequent autopsy to whet the appetite.

 

[cabythesea]

Do you watch TV at home during dinner? We don't...

 

[Teresa]

No TV in a restaurant sounds perfect. But, I don't mind it in certain types such as Shoo Mamas or 98 BBQ. Still, I don't want to see or hear annoying, sensationalized, gory news while trying to visit and eat. Even if the noise is off, the picture and ticker tape thing is distracting and sometimes inappropriate for children of all ages - which is why I can't stand the TV on in the lobby in a professional office.

 

[localyocal]

T.V.'s in Seaside

I agree no T.V.'s or Cell phones, dogs, cats, motorcycles, alcohol, murders, crime, taxes or donuts.

 

[kathydwells]

I am all for no T.V's in any public place except a Sports Bar where one could watch a Football Game. My biggest pet peeve is that everywhere you go these days there are TV's blaring! I hate that. Just yesterday I was at a Hardee's sat down for a nice quiet lunch and there was a TV blaring right over my head. I got up moved to other side of the restaurant. I could still hear it. Annoying as hell! And don't get me started on Doctor's offices and other businesses, I just want scream!

 

[DD]

BR, I know you love your sports and I hope you can find a place to watch and eat, but I'm with several here. Seems like everywhere Mr. DD and I go to eat, TV's abound. So distracting and irritating. We end up barely having a conversation and I sure hope it's because of the TV's.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Don't most of those TVs have closed captioning? I agree with no TVs, except Tarpon Club.