>>This is not true at all. It has nothing to do with age. There are plenty of 10 year old noisy brats, and plenty of loud obnoxious adults.<<
It has EVERYTHING to do with age COUPLED with bad parents — since Baby Booners started coddling their kids.
Every great now and then you will have adults act boorishly at a restaurant and they are quickly removed.
It isn’t the restaurant’s nor my job to mind children. Parents have proven they can’t and won’t.
There is no point in your complex policy when a no-kids policy works just fine. It isn’t like kids are being excluded from something they really desire.
High-priced dining is an adult undertaking.
I guess you are entitled to your opinion. I believe it is the bigotry of low expectations at work.
My kids certainly did enjoy and have favorite dishes at what I consider upscale places. My daughter’s favorite restaurant at age 4 was The Ballerina in London, my son’s the Gay Hussar. They all loved Russian food. I don’t enjoy pretentious places with weird ingredients which excludes most French places but I had no hesitation with posh places and we never impacted negatively on the other diners around us.
We traveled as a family to NYC at least monthly, to Europe, UK, Australia & New Zealand. I felt no need to have an adults night out so if the kids were excluded we didn’t go.