UK pub chain Samuel Smith's has reportedly banned customers from using mobile phones, iPads and laptops.
A memo sent out to managers and put on display at a pub in Rochdale said the brewery’s policy “is not to allow customers mobile phones, laptops or similar inside our pubs,” according to the Manchester Evening News.
It states: “If a customer receives a call then he or she should go outside to take it in the same way as it is required with smoking. Whether outside or inside, tablets and iPads must be prohibited.
“Customers must not be allowed to receive transmitted pictures of sport or download music apps on the brewery’s premises either inside or outside.
“The brewery’s policy is that our pubs are for social conversation person to person.”
The 300-strong pub chain, owned by Humphrey Smith who is aged in his 70s, introduced a no-swearing policy for punters in April 2017.
