Wetherspoons bans customers playing music from phones in pubs
The pub chain says the decision follows complaints about "other people's videos and amplified phone conversations".
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"In order to avoid customers being driven chicken jalfrezi by a cacophony of sound, we are kindly asking phone users to pipe down."
— Sir Tim Martin , Executive
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The pub chain says the decision follows complaints about "other people's videos and amplified phone conversations".
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