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This past Friday evening, 5 of us went out to eat....there was a family there, and they allowed their daughter/toddler, to ruin everyone else's evening. She would scream, and they would laugh...and this went on during the entire time they were there....everyone kept looking at them, and yet, not once did they say no to her...they laughed at her and encouraged her to do it more....
People were looking at them....but they didn't care...I almost got up and said something to them...you couldn't hear anyone else talking...and when they got up to leave, I honestly thought that people would start clapping.
So, yeah, I've run into this problem a lot....
When we were kids and in public, we had to whisper and if we went out to eat, we were seen and not heard....and if we caused a commotion, we were taken outside, and our butts were smacked....or the parents left and went home....
This ruins everyone else's evening out, and enough is enough....parents have to learn how to be parents....
I don't know if the parents of this child are going to sue her, but I back her 100%
I WANT to eat at this lady's restaurant. I'm so sick of lazy ass people who won't parent their kids. About time someone said something.
Did it take 40 minutes to make a pancake (or 3)? I'm confused. Instead of trying to explain to the parents of the crying child that they did not, in fact, want 3 pancakes, why not just make them? Why argue about what someone ordered? Just shake your head, laugh, collect the pancake money & let the kid stuff the dinner plate sized pancakes in her screaming gob.
This is what I don't understand.
If the party was composed of three adults rather than two adults and a child, would the owner not have fulfilled the requested order?
Does she normally tell paying customers what they should or should not order?
Is there signage stating one pancake per customer?
This woman reminds me of that Amy from Amy's Baking Company in AZ.
The philosophy appears to be that the customer is always wrong.
I totally get being frustrated by a crying child, but, there were many better ways to handle this situation.
After five minutes of loud yelling by the child, the owner should have quietly asked the parents to leave. If she had been smart, she would have, as a gesture of good will, given the parents a gift certificate for two (adults) for another time.
Her behavior was on par with the two year old. I don't support her actions. Unless there is an emergency, you don't discipline other people's children.
She did send a pretty good message, though. I doubt she will have much trouble with yelling toddlers and entitled parents anymore. I would rather sit near smokers than yelling babies.
Did it take 40 minutes to make a pancake (or 3)? I'm confused. Instead of trying to explain to the parents of the crying child that they did not, in fact, want 3 pancakes, why not just make them? Why argue about what someone ordered? Just shake your head, laugh, collect the pancake money & let the kid stuff the dinner plate sized pancakes in her screaming gob.
The article states (I read this in another article too) that the restaurant served the child the pancakes but the parents did not feed her right away.
It seems perfectly reasonable for somebody to take the initiative.
Especially the OWNER of the establishment they were at. Again - her place, her rules. Technically she can deny service to anyone short of discriminating - and this was not discriminating. She can treat customers however she pleases, within reason (by this I mean short of physical harm and threats). It's her right as a business owner. The parents don't like it, tough. Perhaps they should have disciplined their child and not disrupted other people's meal out for 40 minutes. I have no sympathy for them just because somebody else yelled at their kid.
I don't think screaming at a 2 year old is ever the right thing to do, regardless of the circumstances.
yup and you don't care about anyone else, just the fact, that your child, should be allowed to scream and ruin everyone else's evening....
You sit in a restaurant for 40 minutes and listen to someone else's kid screaming bloody murder and then come back and tell me the same thing when your old...it drive you up a wall....it's hard enough to have to go to work every single day and put up with rude people....and then once in a while you get a nice person or people....people these days are so freakin demanding, they want it all, now top that off with some kid screaming in your establishment...I'd yell at the kid to...[period!]. There is nothing wrong with doing so if the parent is going to sit there and be so stupid. Matter of fact, I would go over and ask them to leave.
I remember being yelled at by a neighbor for doing something wrong, and that was fine and should have been...b/c my mom wasn't there.....
I agree 100%. She handled the situation wrong she's a Damn fool.
No, your the damn fool....my poor kid can't do anything wrong, a perfect angel and no matter how my kid distrubs someone else it's ok....
get real!
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