A restaurant owner was disheartened with children that spend time on phones at family dinners. She started an in-house library to get kids to make the switch.
KUNA, Idaho — A Kuna restaurant is turning regular family dinners into opportunities for connection and learning.
This is thanks to a unique idea and community partnership, Ana Paz, one of the owners of Enrique’s Mexican Restaurant, started an initiative that gives free books to children and families dining at the restaurant.
“I started thinking, ‘What can I do with the with what I have with the restaurant’,” Paz said.
The idea sparked when Paz frequently noticed families, and especially children, spent a lot of their meals staring at screens rather than engaging with one another.
“We had been seeing for a long time that the kids were not interacting with the parents,” she said. “They were just on their phones.”
Wanting to create a …