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Restaurant bans kids under 6 years old

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THAT guy
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43718876/ns/business-small_business/

If the restaurant has had problems in the past with kids and indifferent parents who won't control their children, then I'm in support of this move by the restaurant. My dad owns a restaurant and in general we haven't had that many problems with children like this restaurant owner does. Not to say that we haven't kicked out families who are annoying our customers but it doesn't happen so often where we've had to outright ban kids.
 
Works for me. If parents cant control their kids in public then they need to not take them in public.

“You know, their child — maybe as it should be — is the center of their universe," he told WTAE. "But they don't realize it's not the center of the universe."
 
I for one totally support this decision and I congratulate him for taking this stance.

As a father of twin boys, which are 4 years old, I can understand why some people do not want children around them at a nice formal dinner. My kids are extremely well behaved when we go out to eat because my wife and I don't put up with any bullshit and they know it.

This is directly related to the wussification of America. Parents needs to get a grip and dicipline their children when necessary.
 
It's unfortunate that it had to come to this. My daughter went through a phase where she would scream for no other reason than to get a reaction out of us. The only way to get her to stop was to completely ignore her which obviously wasn't going to fly at a restaurant. After the first time she did that at a restaurant we waited until she was well out of that phase before taking her out again. She isn't even two yet so she spends her entire time in a high chair but when that isn't the case she's going to sit in a chair or else she's going to stop going out to eat again.
 
BornStar said:
It's unfortunate that it had to come to this. My daughter went through a phase where she would scream for no other reason than to get a reaction out of us. The only way to get her to stop was to completely ignore her which obviously wasn't going to fly at a restaurant. After the first time she did that at a restaurant we waited until she was well out of that phase before taking her out again. She isn't even two yet so she spends her entire time in a high chair but when that isn't the case she's going to sit in a chair or else she's going to stop going out to eat again.
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You could have drowned her. That'd shut her up. A good _itch-slappin might work, too.




Do you think this was actually humorous???

If your notes were not clean I would have banned you for a week


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Beev said:
Children aren't a protected class like seniors and minorities. Not saying a case won't happen, but it won't have any merit.
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While it is not, I don't see why we should hold age to any particular standard. Unfortunately, age is only a protected class in terms of employment anyhow.
 
The pendulum swings back and forth. Hopefully, this means it's swung as far as it's going to swing in the direction of parents are getting worse at parenting (not all, or perhaps even in general; but there are a significant number of selfish parents who don't care about how much they inconvenience others), and now the pendulum is going to swing the other way (too far) and penalize the parents who ARE reasonable.
 
If people would act responsibly when their kids act up this would never be an issue. If your kid starts throwing a fit, take them out of the restaurant. Dinner is over until you can shut them up. If you can't shut them up, dinner is just over period. It's the people who are content let their kid scream in the highchair while they finish their meal or spend ten minutes unsuccessfully trying to quiet them while sitting at the table who have ruined it for the rest.
 
SlitheryDee said:
If people would act responsibly when their kids act up this would never be an issue. If your kid starts throwing a fit, take them out of the restaurant. Dinner is over until you can shut them up. If you can't shut them up, dinner is just over period. It's the people who are content let their kid scream in the highchair while they finish their meal or spend ten minutes unsuccessfully trying to quiet them while sitting at the table who have ruined it for the rest.
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This -- very well said.
 
SlitheryDee said:
If people would act responsibly when their kids act up this would never be an issue. If your kid starts throwing a fit, take them out of the restaurant. Dinner is over until you can shut them up. If you can't shut them up, dinner is just over period. It's the people who are content let their kid scream in the highchair while they finish their meal or spend ten minutes unsuccessfully trying to quiet them while sitting at the table who have ruined it for the rest.
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A lot of people just don't care. I was at the checkout in Walmart a few weeks ago and the kid sitting in the cart in front of me kept kicking my cart. I told him the stop assuming that his mother would hear and get the kid under control. She just looked at me and went back to reading her magazine. As the kid continued to do it I seriously considered ramming my cart into his legs to teach him a lesson.
 
the DRIZZLE said:
A lot of people just don't care. I was at the checkout in Walmart a few weeks ago and the kid sitting in the cart in front of me kept kicking my cart. I told him the stop assuming that his mother would hear and get the kid under control. She just looked at me and went back to reading her magazine. As the kid continued to do it I seriously considered ramming my cart into his legs to teach him a lesson.
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How old was the kid? You couldn't have just backed up?
 
the DRIZZLE said:
A lot of people just don't care. I was at the checkout in Walmart a few weeks ago and the kid sitting in the cart in front of me kept kicking my cart. I told him the stop assuming that his mother would hear and get the kid under control. She just looked at me and went back to reading her magazine. As the kid continued to do it I seriously considered ramming my cart into his legs to teach him a lesson.
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I would have said "Stop it." again and if it persisted I would have been rude about it. "Knock it the hell off" or something like that. Then the stupid mom would have gotten mad at me and I would be entitled to laugh in her face and call her a terrible parent. Sounds like a fun time.
 
The ultimate decision as to whether this was a good or bad idea will be made by the public who will vote with their wallet.
 
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Yep, no right or wrong about it. Just a business decision. Give up the family customers and hope the other customers show up more often.
 
private business. they should have the right to exclude kids if wanted.

I think the problem is as that as the drizzle said to many parents just don't give a fuck. Kids need to be taken to restaurants but taught how to behave. also do not take one that can't behave to a nice sit down place that takes 1 or more.
 
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