Would a Phone Free Bar or Restaurant Concept Work in Northern Nevada?

Reno has a few sober bar nighttime places, but what about having a phone free one, or at least phone free nights or incentives to spend communal time without your phone? Does any place do this locally?

More and more bars across the country are banning phones and customers are loving it, working through awkwardness to develop richer human connections.

Hush Harbor on H street in northeast Washington, D.C. has a phone free rule with patrons having to lock their phones in Yondr pouches when entering, keeping them in their possession but needing to step outside to a designated phone zone to unlock the pouch to use them. They even have Polaroid cameras if you really need a photo.

In Austin, Texas, there’s the Powder Room cocktail bar with a strict no phone policy as well.

“Upon stepping in I felt like I was transported to Miami in the 70s or 80s,” a Yelp reviewer recently wrote. “Once you enter you turn in your phones making it easy to lose time in connecting with your company.”

In Sioux City, Iowa, Sneaky’s Chicken offers a discount on Wednesdays to those who place their phones in a box during their meal.

There’s also multiple organizations hosting phone-free gatherings in third spaces.

In other parts of the world, such as southern France in Montpellier, a bistro called Le Petit Jardin has had a no phone rule there since 2017.

Would this idea work in northern Nevada?

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