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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Restaurant in Italy offers free bottles of wine to customers who hand in phones

Woman drinking wine in a restaurant
The initiative aims to encourage diners to ‘enjoy a convivial moment together’, as well as ‘put phones aside and drink some good wine’. Photograph: Al Condominio

An Italian restaurant is offering a free bottle of wine to customers who relinquish their mobile phones during meals.

Angelo Lella, the owner of Al Condominio, a restaurant that opened in the northern city of Verona in March, said the aim was to encourage diners chat to each other instead of constantly glancing at their phones.

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