Hostility for the Google Glass, Google’s still-unreleased foray into the wearable technology marketplace, seems to be growing.

Last month, controversy and discussion exploded around the internet when a California woman – and Google Glass beta tester – was given a ticket for wearing the Google Glass device while driving. This time around, the setting is Seattle and the controversy is relating back to a man who was kicked out of a local restaurant for wearing the Glass.

According to a report from The Inquirer, Seattle’s Lost Lake diner is apparently one of the first restaurants in the nation to officially ban the Google Glass. The discovery was made by Nick Starr, a network engineer, Seattle native, and regular customer at the Lost Lake diner who was asked to either remove the sleek Google headgear or exit the restaurant.

For Starr, who furiously posted about the experience on Facebook, the request was bizarre, if not entirely out of left field. The Seattle native claims to have worn Google Glass on numerous occasions while eating at the Lost Lake diner. He also claimed to have been aware that the 5 Point Cafe, another Seattle diner under the same ownership as Lost Lake, enforces a policy banning Google Glass. However, while it figures that a restaurant owner enforcing a ban on anything would do so at all of their businesses, Starr stated on Facebook that the waitress and night manager asking him to remove his Google headgear could not provide any proof that a “no Google Glass” policy formally existed at Lost Lake.

It is possible that Starr’s situation was little more than a misunderstanding. Just as Starr reported his experience on Facebook, the Lost Lake diner made its own online post, stating that Starr had been asked to leave because he was being “rude” and belligerently refusing a simple request from one of the diner’s employees. The restaurant claims that its ban on the Google Glass is a result of the device’s ability to film or photograph people without their knowledge of consent.

Restaurant bans and other similar policies for public places could spell bad news for the Google Glass. While use of the device has understandably been restricted in certain environments – such as behind the wheel of a car, where it could be a life-threatening distraction, or in Las Vegas casinos, where it could easily be used for cheating – the Lost Lake diner seems to be taking a stand against relatively harmless use of the device. If too many businesses ban the Google Glass, that could take a bite out of the device’s eventual sales.