Chilli's puts a touch screen device on every table.

You can pay for your meal with it, saving the server a valuable 5 minutes per table
It shows you ads continuously that you can not turn off. Billboard on your table anyone?
It also plays video, typicaly cartoons, in full volume no less just in case a phone or tablet is unavailable to be stuffed in your childs face
This is in addition to the two TVs playing something or the other in constant view from any table
And the pop music that is being piped in through the dining room speakers

A committee came up with this dining experience. I am sure of it.

When a committee works well, you get a Toyota Camry that lasts thirty years, five hundred thousand miles, all on the strength of timely oil changes. No personality, but the damned thing refuses to die.

When a committee works poorly, you find yourself with an attrocity of a touch screen device on your dinner table. With sound. And ads. Ditto on the personality. All with below-average food conjured up by the same committee.

In a world full of pocket internet devices, the best gift you can give someone is your attention.

Unless you are at a Chilli's.