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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Things like conversation, reading, etc., tend to be self-limiting. If you go to the cafe on your lunch break, you've got to get back to the office in a fairly short period of time or you may as well stay there and read the Help Wanted ads. The people with the computers, on the other hand,
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Seems like a false distinction. Not everyone chatting/reading is on their lunch break and not everyone on their computers aren't on a lunch break. Conversation isn't self-limiting (believe me) -- lunch breaks are. I don't doubt these locations had special problems with computer users like you describe, but I've had lots of encounters with rude chatty groups refusing to leave their tables long after their food is gone as lines of customers stir about impatiently and have never once stood waiting for a rude computer user to clear out so I could sit.
My mock sign fits the bill for the same underlying problem at far more restaurants and the like than the rule of topic does.