It must be annoying as all hell to the restaurant waitstaff who have spanned the popularization of the modern smartphone. Also, I don't want to come across as misogynist but I would love to know the breakdown of phone behavior by gender. This just doesn't sound like the behavior of men, usually the food drops and the shoveling begins. It's literally a race to the finish to see how quickly the food can be made to disappear. With women there's a much more obvious phone-centric lifestyle going on (with exceptions that cut both ways of course). In their case it's actually brilliant because it results in better digestion and less discomfort.

I think you've just identified the event horizon in modern dating. Once the phone massaging increases on one side, the other side picks up the phone to massage with equal or greater ferocity. To an outside observer it looks like this -

It's perhaps easier to predict the long-term outcome rather than the short-term.

Well, I don't think they are serious what they write.. The numbers seemed too exaggerated (3 mins 'in average' for taking a photo of the food, 5 mins for group photo...) I haven't seen anybody taking a food picture for 3 mins.

It seemed to me that the restaurant making excuses for their slow service..

But I admit we are now living in a smartphone centric world.. There is even a new word for it: Phubbing...

very entertaining. :) I am with @melihdummy here. these numbers are a little high. maybe we can say people spend 5 minutes messaging on their phone or even forget the food, and thats why they want it reheated. a photo is normally about 10 seconds, I would say. :)