Chick-fil-A’s Viral Challenge: Put Your Phone Away, Get Free Ice Cream

Brad Williams invented the Cell Phone Coop in 2016 at his two Chick-fil-A restaurants in Georgia after watching families sit together staring at their screens instead of talking. He put a white box on every table and invited customers to store their phones in it for the whole meal. If everyone participated, the table earned a free Icedream cone.

“It just got me thinking how to get people to disconnect in order to connect and to take a technology timeout,” Williams told ABC News. “Be...