Dear future San Antonio restaurant owner... (Blanco, Cove: restaurants, eat, friendly)

[flashfearless]

..If your demographic includes Mexican-descent families in San Antonio, you better plan to have a big outdoor playground. Or your restaurant will fail.

I've seen it time and time again. If you want to attract the Mexican family to come dine in your restaurant, you better have the space and the playground to cover how long they stay and how little they supervise their children.

I've seen restaurants try to give it a go without the outdoor playground, and it doesn't work if you plan on having family fare.

Even in the Oaks Crossing restaurant inside the HEB (aka the Gucci HEB), on Thursdays kids eat free. You couldn't pay me to go in there on Thursday nights. I've watched unsupervised kids finger all the drink dispensers, kids running in and out of outside play area. Just total chaos. I won't go there again.

But it's like that everywhere. If I want quiet dining, I always have to dine in a higher demographic area.

[Preacher666]

Grandma??

[Hedgehog_Mom]

Originally Posted by flashfearless

But it's like that everywhere. If I want quiet dining, I always have to dine in a higher demographic area.

If you already know where you can eat in the kind of atmosphere you want, why not just eat there? Why bother with a thinly disguised racist rant? I see children of all races inadequately supervised and behaving badly in public.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by flashfearless

But it's like that everywhere. If I want quiet dining, I always have to dine in a higher demographic area.

Define "higher demographic area"...

[txtea]

They have a higher end Chuckie Cheese?

[TexasRedneck]

I eat at any number of Mexican restaurants without playgrounds OR misbehaving kids. I've also eaten at higher end restaurants that I refuse to return to because MANY parents refuse to control their kids, and the staff is afraid to. Thing is....I'm not. I've (politely) gotten into more than one parents face when their kids are screaming, running about or otherwise going WAY over the line. MOST of the time, it shames them into getting their little hellions back under control.

That's the thing - we've all become accustomed to letting bad behavior stand - in our parents day, they would have been mortified to have us behave in such a way. Now, I'm not talking about McDonalds or other such places - I kinda expect a certain amount of insanity at those venues. I'm talking about your standard, everyday restaurant - I won't hesitate to say something to the parent. I've only had one that ever tried to get froggy on me, and the guy at the table next to me pointed out that he'd be happy to let them have a go at him first, because he was fed up with their antics, as well. I try to be friendly in my approach, but at the same time convey the message that their kids are destroying the dining experience of everyone else.

Hopefully, you'll do the same, rather than coming here and making baseless comments about behaviors based on ethnicity.

[ashbeeigh]

Where is their a Mexican restaurant with a playground in SA? All I know of is burger and seafood places like the place on Blanco and 1604 that closed, Willie's, The Cove, the space where Anchor Bar is now and Joe's Crab Shack.

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Where is their a Mexican restaurant with a playground in SA? All I know of is burger and seafood places like the place on Blanco and 1604 that closed, Willie's, The Cove, the space where Anchor Bar is now and Joe's Crab Shack.

Taco Palenque have playgrounds.

[rynetwo]

The OP was not talking about Mexican Restaurants they were talking about Mexican people.

Am I the only one that does not run into this all that frequently? It does happen on occasion but it is pretty rare.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

The OP was not talking about Mexican Restaurants they were talking about Mexican people.

Am I the only one that does not run into this all that frequently? It does happen on occasion but it is pretty rare.

Goodness. My reading comprehension is at the level of a 5 year old lately.