Who can afford to go out to eat anymore anyway?
So we can’t say anything about out of control children in a restaurant, because these kids will be paying into Social Security in the future?
So these out of control kids are going to hold a grudge against all of society when they become adults, if we don’t let them run wild today??????
Well I guess because it has not happened to you in the $150 a meal restaurants the writer eats in it is not a problem.The only time I have ever had food interrupted by a drunk was having nachos in a bar where that is kind of expected.I can’t count how many times I’ve ate and either dealth with someone’s child screaming,running, or even standing at my table trying to eat from my food.I do not go out that often so having this happen is really infuriating....I’d rather do dishes at home and not spend the money!
People do need to control their children better in restaurants. My brother and I operate a few franchised locations, and many complaints forwarded up to our offices by the managers are from disgruntled diners. The diners are angry that they had their dining experiences ruined because of children screaming or simply being out of control. These are not infants we’re talking about. Six year old kids should be able to sit at a table and behave themselves. If I had acted like these kids do sometimes, I would have gotten a few swift spankings.
I ran into this years ago in Colorado on vacation. We wanted to eat somewhere nice, but this place owuldn’t let me in with a baby.
Then Estes Park wouldn’t let me in the craft place with a toddler. It was a weird vacation.
The author is muddle-headed, at best, and clearly has no business writing.
My advice to today’s young is: Work hard, get a good education so you can get a high paying job because I’M going to need it!
And if you’re thinking of what you’ll do when you have control just remember an eighty year old with a walker has very little to loose any more.
So figure out something else to cut or we’ll be coming to live with you.
Really stupid way to frame an argument
Allow me to be the first to wholeheartedly agree with Rich Tucker: You're eating at the wrong restaurants. Where are you eating, Rich, biker dives or something?
Talk about a losing proposition.
I AM nice to my own children. little hooligans running around a restaurant are not MY children.
what a maroon.
I am with the restaurant manager. What he says is correct.
the reason is that kids are not raised the way they were 50-60 years ago. there is a picture of a black woman sitting in a chair with her three kids at a welfare office from the late 1950s/early 1960s and the kids are just sitting there and standing there. When I was young and growing up I got yelled at and shrugged and tugged on to behave and sit still in public places. Todays’ parents beg and try to coerce their children to ‘please stop’ and ‘please don’t do that’ and ‘ooh play with this’ and appease the kid hoping the kid will do what they want.
I totally understand where the restaurant manager is coming from. If parents knew how to raise kids properly like our grandparents and for the older gen-xers, our parents, did, and weren’t trying to be friends and coax good behavior out of the kids instead of a little well-placed corporal punishment - instead of the kid running the family - I’d say the manager was over-reaching. But he is so not over-reaching at all.
If these kids can’t sit and behave in a restaurant, what makes anyone think they’ll be responsible enough to hold a job to pay SS benefits in the future?
My kids behave better at restaurants than they do at home. They’ve been told for years that the owner of the restaurant does not have to serve them. He can throw them out if they cause trouble, and never welcome them back again.
I think kids should be given the chance to eat at restaurants. They need to learn about that part of life. But if they cause trouble, out they go. And, yes, when our kids were little, we had a number of times where one of us took the loud kid out to the parking lot while the other parent and child finished their meal.
I don’t like this policy of no kids in the restaurant because it is like they’re guilty until proven innocent.
What a joke. Usually the restaurants with obnoxious drunks are not the same restaurants that have screaming children running around. So, yes, he is eating in the wrong restaurants, and this is not an imaginary problem.
Also, disciplining your children and “being nice” to them are not mutually exclusive, and expecting children to behave with manners in public is not an idea from the “Middle Ages”. I’m only in my early 30s, and nearly everyone I grew up with knew that you behaved by one set of rules on the playground, and another when you went inside. Children can learn that quite easily, if parents bother to teach them.
Dear Rich,
Bless your heart honey, but you just don't get it. The undisciplined brats that are running around being hellions now are not going to be the productive workers of the future. They are the convicts of the future. Or possibly the dead bodies.
Perhaps, I am going out on a limb here, but perhaps, people are reacting to the fact that "kids will be kids" now seems to mean that little Johnny or Susie can run up to a adult, kick them and the spawns progenitor will just smile vacantly and say, "kids will be kids!"
There are plenty of places where feral children may run free. Their warped little personalities will not be damaged by being denied the joys of dining in a swanky restaurant before they have reached the age of seven. Their progenitors have already twisted them so badly that untwisting them will prove next to impossible.
I do note that there are parts of the country where it is very rare to run into these hell-spawn. And in those parts of the country you don't find even the swanky restaurants having any kind of child restriction. That is because there people understand that taking to young child to a upscale restaurant is usually a bad idea. They also keep their children under control. Some go so far as to insist that their children use words like, "please", "thank you" and even address adults as "Ma'am" and "Sir"
I know that such a stifling of a child's creativity might seem strange but you know what Rich? Those children are the future workers and builders. Not the tiny terrorists that are so out of control that people are having to restrict them from places.
Best Regards,
HTB