Would you continue to eat at a restaurant if your young children were no longer allowed to eat there?

Question

This restaurant has banned children under age 6. Would you still choose to eat there?

http://www.wmur.com/family/16211702/detail.html

Answer 1

no i wouldn't go there with my children.. i read the article that you gave us the link too.. but the manager has to realize too, that there are disruptive adults too.. that isn't fair for him to do that.. i would soo boycott his restaurant.

Answer 2

I think it's a little absurd. Why shouldn't my kids be able to go to a nice (not diner) restaurant once in a while. I have four very well behaved kids and I recently went to a restaurant and you should have seen the woman's face when we entered. It was just plain rude. And like I said my kids really are well behaved BUT I don't care if someone walks in with the rudest kids in the world I'm sick of all of these anti-community style places. We're becoming more and more alienated from one another as a society. Maybe that's a reason why there are so many ill behaved children. The phrase "it takes a village to raise a child" has been thrown out the window. And I understand our society isn't village based so to speak but we're still communities and the weight of the world shouldn't be on the mother's shoulders. I'd much rather be a sympathetic human being than an inconvenienced prick to my fellow man/woman. Good question either way. Sorry I wrote so much. Like I said I had a recent experience with this. Plus there is nothing I despise more when people are stuck up for the sake of being stuck up. My kids were a hell of a lot more well behaved than she was (btw she was the owner of the place) because I have taught my kids manners. And you know what else... the food wasn't even worth it lol.

Answer 3

If there food was REALLY good, and there was NO other great restaurant in town, sure - on date night. (I've had 2 of those in 2 years!! hahaha!)



You know, I think it's very interesting he has chosen age 6 as the cutoff. What's to say a 6 year old can be better mannered than a 5 year old? I've seen some 10 year olds have better tantrums than a 2 year old.



Guess time will tell if he can make a go of it.

Answer 4

Absolutely I would. There are restaurants that are family and children appropriate and those that are not. When I go to Denny's I will bring my children and use it as a learning experience for them. However, on those rare occasions when I am out and among adults, I want to be able to relax, talk about adult subject matter and not have to worry about spelling anything rather than saying it.



Last time I went to a nice restaurant, we found a sitter and left our kids home only to be pestered by someone else's child who was running around an upscale place after 8:00p.m. He stopped at every table between each course and his parents indulgently smiled like "isn't he so cute?"



There is an appropriate time and place for everything. This business owner is simply setting a specific tone for his establishment.

Answer 5

Find a better, more family-friendly restaurant for your kids and your family to go to together. If you like the food at the restaurant where your kids can't go, then just go with your husband on a date night or something. And the owner actually CAN ban certain people from his restaurant. Sure, it will impact business (which is why most businesses don't do it), but he can do whatever he wants if he owns the place. Just like people can keep homeless people out oftheir restaurants, this owner can keep children out too. Sad but true. Just take my advice.

Answer 6

Honestly, I think there are places where children should be able to go eat and have fun and not have to be so prim and proper, not have to be shushed every 2 minutes because some old pissed off patron is giving the parents that look....you know the look, I have received it and I have given it.

More mature people like to go where there are not small children and eat in peace and quiet. I do not think there is anything wrong with that. Do not take offense to it, just wait about 25 years til you pay almost a hundred dollars for a meal and there are kids running around screaming and hollering and throwing fits, you cant even enjoy your meal.

Answer 7

Sometimes kids are disruptive and he is more likely to loose patrons if he doesn't do this.



One of the restaurants at Disney World has banned children under 12 or 14 [I think thats the age].

Its a very expensive high class restaurant and I see no problem with it.



If I went and payed $100 a plate and had to listen to whining and crying kids I would be so mad.

Also, I love kids and they don't usually bother me.

Answer 8

If I enjoyed the food then yes I would still eat there....without the children. I'd call it a date night and get our children a sitter for the night so we can go out and enjoy a nice meal. Some restaurants are just not meant to have children dine in them.

Answer 9

Thats a tough one. If I brought my daughter to a restaurant I would expect her to behave.

She is a lovely little girl, and only a year and a half, and sometimes gets a little pissed off sitting in a highchair while we try to eat!! I imagine her little noises are a little annoying to other patrons. That being said, older people can be annoying too. Whats next? Banning people who are of old age because they walk too slowly to their tables?

If Elle is old enough to sit at a table and chat to us, and to understand me when I tell her to quiet down, then I would expect any restaurant to welcome her. If they didn't I would be mighty pissed off.

Answer 10

sure - it would be nice to have a quiet meal without children yelling and crying. If you want a family restaurant, go to a family restaurant.

Answer 11

I would still eat there. However, I think that making it an 18+ establishment would have been the smarter way to deal with that legally.

Answer 12

Yes. That is just like if you wanted to go eat at a Pub. If you are under a certain age, you are not permitted to enter.

Answer 13

He's just looking for a lawsuit. I don't think he can legally exclude an age group from patronizing his restaurant.

Answer 14

Date NIGHT. This is the perfect time to get a sitter and go out WITHOUT the kidos.

Answer 15

NO WAY!, take your custom elsewhere. There are plenty of family friendly restaurants to eat in.

Answer 16

I'd love to go to that restaurant!



I'd enjoy my meal in peace and quiet, and then make a disgusting mess of the bathroom. Serves them right for such psychotic bigotry.

Answer 17

No. Love me, love my kids.



And yes, I do expect children to have reasonable behavior in public.

Answer 18

unless my husband and I were going on a date (which is once in a blue moon)..no..I don't go to restaruants my chidren can't go to...sorry..

Answer 19

no , i love to see kids crying or otherwise they should ban old people then as unless you have no shirt no shoes that should be the rule

Answer 20

I would go there without my kids, yes. Too bad people with out of control kids have to spoil things for the rest of us.

Answer 21

no i wouldn't eat their no more. you should get a petition going about this place and a lawsuit going too.. it's like saying to Mexicans and or blacks sorry but people of color can't eat here!!!!!!..... that is how i take it....

Answer 22

he is just asking to be sued

Answer 23

No I would not.



I would never go anywhere that my children/family were not welcome.