Amanda needs to respect the fact that other people may want a quiet dinner without noises like a screaming baby... sure, she has a right to dine out, but is she really doing her child right be making him the ridicule of others dining?
outback to go might have been a better option. i would not complain, but i will not deny others their right to complain. did the manager mishandle it? yes. let the child stay and give the complainers a $10 gift card for later... i am sure they would be fine with it... they sound classless.
A $10 gift card is no substitute for being able to peacefully enjoy a $100 steak dinner
The comments on Yahoo were universally against this woman and for the restaurant - mostly by parents and including parents of SN kids
Seesh, what a worthless ‘solution’.
I drop a hundred, hundred fifty, on a once a year dinner with family or friends and you want me to put up with a bunch of rude noses for a lousy ten dollar coupon because some self absorbed thoughtless family didn’t have the decency to leave us alone?
Seriously?
“sure, she has a right to dine out”
When our kids were growing, we selected places to eat based in part on how the kids were able to behave. A young child isn’t going to act like an older child, and we had no business ruining someone else’s dining experience just because.
So when they were very young, take out. As they got older, McDonalds. Eventually, Olive Garden. Good steak houses had to wait until they were in their teens. I had a legal right to eat out with kids, but not always a moral right to eat at an expensive place where small kids could ruin things for other diners paying $$$$.