Are you tired of hearing people yapping on their cellphones when you’re out for a meal?

Well, restaurants are coming up with ways to make the dining experience cell-free for annoyed customers irritated by fellow diners’ loudmouth phone conversations.

I love the tactic Eva Restaurant in Los Angeles is trying. Diners get a 5 percent discount if they agree to ditch their cellphones at the door, Erin Kim of CNN reports.

The policy has been popular. The restaurant’s chef, Mark Gold, estimates that 40 percent to 50 percent of patrons opt for the discount.

On the other hand, I definitely appreciate the exasperation that must have prompted a Vermont deli to impose a surcharge for customers who talk on their cellphones while ordering their food.

According to a report by the Consumerist, the deli’s handwritten sign says: “$3 will be added to your total if you fail to GET OFF YOUR PHONE while at the counter. It’s rude.”

Don’t you hate it when people hold up the checkout line because they’re distracted on their cellphones? I actually saw a customer hold up her hand to signal a cashier to wait while she finished a conversation.

Get out of the line!

At a deli in Chicago, patrons are being told to hang up their phone or get out. “The use of cellular phones at Perry’s is strictly prohibited,” the deli warns. “If you are that important that you must use your phone, you should be eating in a much more upscale restaurant.”

This week’s Color of Money Question: What do you think of efforts to discourage cellphone use in public places? Send your responses to colorofmoney@washpost.com. Be sure to include your full name, city and state. Put “Drop Your Cell, Get A Discount” in the subject line.

The Bratty Bunch

There’s been much discussion and there have been many surveys maligning Generation Y, or the Millennials -- defined as those born between 1982 and 1999 – for being too spoiled, too reluctant to leave the nest or too self-confident.

This group of young adults will make up 75 percent of the American workforce by 2025. But perhaps some of the demands from these folks will help create better workplaces says Washington Post contributor Emily Matchar.

“Through their sense of entitlement and inflated self-esteem, they’ll make the modern workplace adapt to them,” Matchar writes in a piece for The Post’s Outlook section. “And we should thank them for it. Because the modern workplace frankly stinks, and the changes wrought by Gen Y will be good for everybody.”

Think about this, Matchar writes:

— Americans spend more time at the office than citizens of most other developed nations. Annually, we work 408 hours more than the Dutch, 374 hours more than the Germans and 311 hours more than the French.

— Americans even work 59 hours more than the stereotypically nose-to-the-grindstone Japanese.

— Though women make up half of the American workforce, the United States is the only country in the developed world without guaranteed paid maternity leave.

“All this hard work is done for less and less reward,” she says. “Wages have been stagnant for years, benefits shorn, opportunities for advancement blocked. While the richest Americans get richer, middle-class workers are left to do more with less.”