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Speaking from experience, we go to fewer restaurants now because it's nearly impossible to control our kid in that kind of environment. She doesn't want to stay put, and we don't want her running around, so we just don't go. On the flip side, we eat healthier and spend less money.
Places are called Family Restaurants for a reason. If you want to bring your obnoxious, screaming kids to a restaurant that are under 8 years old bring them to Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Perkins, or Chili's.
There is no way that patrons at high end, trendy, and expensive restaurants should put up with families with screaming kids and deal with everything that comes with them.
If I had a restaurant I'd have a no children under 8 after 6pm policy and I also would NOT offer a kids menu. If kids are too picky with what they eat, they can stay home or go to McDonalds.
No, please don't. If you're a poor parent and have an ill-behaving child, park them at McDonalds in the kids area. Let responsible people on a modest budget eat in peace. It shouldn't require a $100 a meal resturant to get away from other people's poor parenting.
I look at it this way. I have made a promise (unlike some other fathers) that I will always have my son's back! That does not mean he gets a free pass to act a fool in public, and get away with bad behavior. I truly think that it is crucial that if you have children that there should be 2 parents, because not doing so is doing a great disservice to that child, and their upbringing! And the way I see it the biggest role models should be the parents, and not some athlete, or entertainment living in fantasy land! I didn't mean to deviate, and I agree with you that parents need to be parents to their children, and not friends.
There are plenty of single parents who are capable of raising a behaved child(ren). I've also seen plenty of kids from two parent homes that are horrible little creatures.
There are plenty of single parents who are capable of raising a behaved child(ren). I've also seen plenty of kids from two parent homes that are horrible little creatures.
Yes of course there are exceptions, and by no means are parents perfect. However; I feel that children without 2 full time parents are at a disadvantage. I came from a divorce. My parents split when I was very young. However; my mom married my step dad about 2 years after the divorce, and they have been together since. My dad had privileges to see me every other weekend, but once I got older, and he got married yet a 3rd time I got brushed aside, and so did my sibblings (even more so) from his 2nd wife.
We had a horrible experience at Disneyworld eating at Jiko's which is very expensive. We had taken my elderly mother for a Thanksgiving feast along with our grown children. At the table next to us there was a brat who had to be about 8 who screamed, pounded the table, went over and actually took food from someone else's table and when the moron of a mother asked him what he wanted to eat he continued screaming he hated everything offered. When they brought him his food he threw it at his moron of a father. Finally the grandpa stood up grabbed the kid and hauled him outside while the others just sat and continued to eat. I would have just gotten takeout if it were mine. Some kids are just too much to handle in public and why should I have a meal ruined because the parents have a difficult child?
No, please don't. If you're a poor parent and have an ill-behaving child, park them at McDonalds in the kids area. Let responsible people on a modest budget eat in peace. It shouldn't require a $100 a meal resturant to get away from other people's poor parenting.
My last visit to Olive Garden was close to $100, and it was a nightmare of kids screeching, running and parents chasing the kids back and taking flash photos of the family. One mom had a jingly toy she kept shaking at the baby, over and over. Then she's loudly trying to get attention from other diners to admire her perfect child. So, never again, done with OG. This all happened between 8-10 pm. OG tries to get customers to order wine, it's kind of dark, it's a place that would have been appropriate for adults and older kids in more reasonable days but now it's basically overpriced Italian McDonalds with wine.
We had a horrible experience at Disneyworld eating at Jiko's which is very expensive. We had taken my elderly mother for a Thanksgiving feast along with our grown children. At the table next to us there was a brat who had to be about 8 who screamed, pounded the table, went over and actually took food from someone else's table and when the moron of a mother asked him what he wanted to eat he continued screaming he hated everything offered. When they brought him his food he threw it at his moron of a father. Finally the grandpa stood up grabbed the kid and hauled him outside while the others just sat and continued to eat. I would have just gotten takeout if it were mine. Some kids are just too much to handle in public and why should I have a meal ruined because the parents have a difficult child?
A good smack on the a** would have been the order of the day if that were me. If it were my kid doing that I would administer that on him as well. The old saying is "this will hurt me more than it will hurt you" and it's true, but sometimes you just have to break one off to get their attention.
Not to mention an apology to the people who's dinner was ruined!
Places are called Family Restaurants for a reason. If you want to bring your obnoxious, screaming kids to a restaurant that are under 8 years old bring them to Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Perkins, or Chili's.
There is no way that patrons at high end, trendy, and expensive restaurants should put up with families with screaming kids and deal with everything that comes with them.
If I had a restaurant I'd have a no children under 8 after 6pm policy and I also would NOT offer a kids menu. If kids are too picky with what they eat, they can stay home or go to McDonalds.
Exactly! No one bats an eye at places that call themselves "family restaurants", but the minute a place calls itself a "non-family restaurant" people throw a fit.
I work in fine dining and you won't imagine the things people with kids say. They flip out that there isn't a kid's menu, get angry that there are no high chairs, scream that there isn't a changing station in the rest rooms etc and NEVER DO THEY NOTICE that there are plenty of family-friendly restaurants a few blocks away.
I saw one big fat moo with her three brats angry that she couldn't take her kids with her to A WINE TASTING in NEW YORK CITY
We had a horrible experience at Disneyworld eating at Jiko's which is very expensive. We had taken my elderly mother for a Thanksgiving feast along with our grown children. At the table next to us there was a brat who had to be about 8 who screamed, pounded the table, went over and actually took food from someone else's table and when the moron of a mother asked him what he wanted to eat he continued screaming he hated everything offered. When they brought him his food he threw it at his moron of a father. Finally the grandpa stood up grabbed the kid and hauled him outside while the others just sat and continued to eat. I would have just gotten takeout if it were mine. Some kids are just too much to handle in public and why should I have a meal ruined because the parents have a difficult child?
In Disneyworld you should never be surprised that an over-stimulated, out-of-control child is there - never. I don't care what dinner place you chose. Get over it on that one. Now, if you were in Jiko's Expensive Dining, in the middle of some city, with fancy linens and wine glasses, you would have every right to expect a quiet dinner.
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