Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography?

First it was the Terms of Service fiasco, then it's restaurants. Can't Instagram get a break? Helene Stapinski of The New York Times tells us how some restaurants are fed up with customers taking pictures of their food and what they're doing about it:

When it comes to people taking photographs of their meals, the chef David Bouley has seen it all. There are the foreign tourists who, despite their big cameras, tend to be very discreet. There are those who use a flash and annoy everyone around them. There are those who come equipped with gorillapods — those small, flexible tripods to use on their tables.

There are even those who stand on their chairs to shoot their plates from above.

“We get on top of those folks right away or else it’s like a circus,” Mr. Bouley said.

Read more over at the New York Times: Link

What do you think, Neatoramanauts? Should restaurants ban food photography?



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Standing on their chairs is a bit far, and a liability to the restaurant, but otherwise, just as long as they are not taking a picture of my food, let them.
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So she Wouldn't call 911 next time she is out drunk driving?
And good job saying on TV that it isn't fair she got a ticket cause she got home without causing an accident. She still endangered lives of other people...
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she called...but she still drove home?
why didn't this other person just drive her?
I don't think she deserves any commendation! She stepped up to the glass, not the plate, and then stepped on the gas.
If she was really so worried, she wouldn't have driven, and it is totally fair for her to get, at very least, a ticket for drunk driving. I have no tolerance for crap like that and I don't think law enforcement should either.
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HELL NO she didn't do the right thing, she still drove drunk. She should still go to jail, period. F**k this pat on the back business.
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@vako - most small towns and rural areas don't have cabs. From the looks of the woman's house and garage, she lives on a farm or at the least a rural area.

I'm not defending her driving drunk, I'm just saying, don't assume everyone in the U.S. has access to cab service.
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