Cafes who don't want you to use their salt and pepper

If you don't want me to use salt and pepper in your cafe, I'd prefer you didn't put any out at all, instead of teasing me with a couple of sweaty salt and pepper shakers with grains of rice in to supposedly keep the contents free-flowing. Here's the news - the rice doesn't work, and I have to eat your bland, tasteless food without any hope of seasoning.