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Originally Posted by kokonutty
The expectation is what was questioned. I've heard many more than one person with kids asking for crayons or toys with the expectation that a food business should have them. Adults don't expect restaurants to supply telephones, laptops and reading material - they bring with them the supplies they plan on using while they eat.
I have a hard time understanding someone who will make a dining decision based on availability of art supplies. If they're so important bring them along from home.
Kids' food is not a profit center for restaurants and kids don't buy beer, wine and liquor, the area where real profits are made.
Parents are ASKING for it? Okay, that's ridiculous. If the restaurant has it, they give it. Otherwise, it should be implied that they don't have it. But to ASK for it? That's a crazy sense of entitlement.
And they do that by maximizing their customer base. Come on, it's not that difficult to comprehend. Tourist areas have really got this down to a science.
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Originally Posted by kokonutty ...The purpose is to sell food and beverages...
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Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder
And they do that by maximizing their customer base. Come on, it's not that difficult to comprehend. Tourist areas have really got this down to a science.
Heck I am so old I recall those diner table top mini juke boxes where for a nickle or dime the customer could select their own music to play while they ate their meal.
Here's another restaurant why question: Why do people bring kids to a restaurant and expect the restaurant to supply toys and crayons for their kids?
My kids are older now, but I can remember bringing a small bag for each of them with a few "dollar store" toys, or crayons and paper, if we were going out to dinner, just to keep them occupied. simple stuff.
I have had it where I was seated in a fairly OK place, then in comes a couple with 2 kids, two tables away. Kids set up a howl, I ask to be moved to the other side of the place, I was refused, I left. That place will never see me again.
Never take crap from them, you are the customer, unless you're in a Chuck e Cheese you got better places to go.
We get so much entertainment from observing the prune faces in a restaurant when couples with young children walk into the restaurant. The prune faces look up from their smartphones, roll their eyes, cast a disapproving stare while the family is being seated, make a few comments, then get back to their smartphones. Heck, if it wasn't for the brief exchange of disapproval, they wouldn't converse during the entire meal.
Young children just don't bother us. Heck, I took my child to Chuck E. Cheese's so often one summer that we never went back again (child's choice).
We get so much entertainment from observing the prune faces in a restaurant when couples with young children walk into the restaurant. The prune faces look up from their smartphones, roll their eyes, cast a disapproving stare while the family is being seated, make a few comments, then get back to their smartphones. Heck, if it wasn't for the brief exchange of disapproval, they wouldn't converse during the entire meal.
Young children just don't bother us. Heck, I took my child to Chuck E. Cheese's so often one summer that we never went back again (child's choice).
We never had kids and since I was trained like a seal at a very young age I do tend to overreact, probably out of envy. I wish Chuck E. Cheese had better food. I would go there to desensitize!
ps: have a smartphone but use it for calls and occasional texts. And GPS of course. It's a tracfone, $8 a month!
...I wish Chuck E. Cheese had better food. I would go there to desensitize!...
Ha ha!!! It's a chaotic scene of bells, screams, cries, whoops, hollering, electronic game racket, running children, and music. The only thing missing is the sound of adult conversation; you just sit there and observe or get in there and win tickets.
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I wish Chuck E. Cheese had better food. I would go there to desensitize!
