[defconw]

To each his own! If I go to a pizza place, fast food eatery or pasta house I expect kids. But as an adult I am sorry, but I don't think it's to much to ask to keep small kids out of places they are not ready for.

Don't hate kids, but I don't always find them fun either.

[JayGalt]

I don’t find drunks or people with smelly cologne fun. Can we keep them out of restaurants?
Fast food eateries, pizza & pasta houses are not experiences they are conveniences. When I take my children out to dinner it is to experience something different, to learn something about a culture and its foods and to broaden their horizons.

I don’t really understand why it would be appropriate to take a badly behaved child to dinner at your list of acceptable spots either there are still other diners who deserve to be able to eat in peace or are only those able to afford an expensive meal deserving of courtesy?

[USMCPOP]

"To each his own! If I go to a pizza place, fast food eatery or pasta house I expect kids."

We used to frequent some Italian/pizza places in northern NJ. On slow nights, there was always one of their kids doing homework at one of the tables. They always seemed to love my kids. One owner got upset when I told him I was moving to VA from NJ. "You can't go"! Nothing up-scale, to be sure. But we never robbed the place.