Smile, you’re on a bar webcam - (New York Times)
February 21, 2008 – 6:54 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1026_3-6230898.html?_r=3&scp=13&sq=restaurant&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/culture-of-food-safety/if-bars-can-use-webcams-why-cant-usda/index.html
On a recent Friday evening at the Key West bar Hog’s Breath Saloon, Mike Murphy was enjoying a Miller Lite and potato skins in the company of his wife and friends.
Although not on reality television, his evening was broadcast online from the Florida bar’s live Webcam, which showed the group occasionally waving to their grandkids at home in Indianapolis.
Reached via the bar’s manager, Murphy talked to CNET News.com while still on camera: “We’re down here on vacation, and we called and told their parents to go online because the grandkids were missing us. But by the end of it, the grandmas were all crying.”
The story says that bar Webcams are a growing phenomenon in cities like Boston, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Minneapolis, and even tourist spots like Key West.
The idea is: with a Webcam installed in a bar or restaurant, potential customers can call up the live video stream online […]
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