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If you don’t do an Instagram story of a meal out, have you even eaten out?

Many of us won’t be able to remember the last dining experience we had without our mobiles in tow.

But Big Mac eaters in Singapore are being encouraged to put down their gadgets and actually have a conversation over their lunches.

McDonald’s has introduced mobile phone lockers in a bid to get people to start socialising over food again.


Its Marine Cove branch in the country is targeting families, encouraging both kids and parents to lock up their phones for the duration of the meal.



Is it working?

Of course not, because people are Instagramming the lockers.

McDonald’s also a ‘Phone Off, Fun On’ campaign going on in the country…

…and that’s not going too well either.

Hardly surprising bearing in mind that, according to a survey conducted by McDonald’s Singapore, 72% of children and 69% of parents use their smartphones during mealtimes.

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