Unplugged Dining: When Disconnection Becomes the Product Trend Category Framing: Presence-First Hospitality — the shift from experience-enhanced dining to experience-protected dining, where removing technology is the value proposition. Restaurants are no longer just competing on food — they are competing on attention. The contradiction is cultural: the same generation that built its social life on screens is now paying to put them away. Disconnection has become a luxury signa
