WTF?
Posted on 10/31/2017 8:37:02 PM PDT by Simon Green
Last week, a sign went up. It caused a lot of other stuff to go down.
Hampton Station, a neighborhood craft beer and pizza spot in Seminole Heights put the notice up on Oct. 24, on the front door in fat all-caps.
NO CHILDREN.
It’s a local piece of a national conversation. As American breweries and bars become increasingly welcome to families, with laid back atmospheres, food, games and grassy knolls, should business owners be able to draw the line?
In Tampa Bay, it didn’t take long for diners to take sides: The "this is an outrage" side, and the "it’s their prerogative, and I’m happy there’s someplace I can eat kid-free" side. A Tampa Bay Moms’ Group Facebook page quickly had more than 150 comments, discourse becoming more acrimonious as the number grew.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
“Psst, parents with young ankle biters, there’s a Chuck E. Cheese in almost every town. All the chaos and bad pizza your little ones love.”
LOL, you nailed it! Not to mention memorable fight scenes as seen on youtube.
My youngest is now 25, so it has been awhile. At the time, it was a good place to take the kids.
Don’t put it past the left to hit them with a ‘civil rights’ case, based on the fact that minorities (particularly Hispanics) tend to have many more kids than whites, so this is just a thinly disguised attempt to keep the (non-tipping) minorities out of the joint.
I was on vacation with my kids and another mom and we were banned from a fru fru kind of place. Fine. I’ll keep my money you assho8les.
You must live in one of the better areas of Florida and go to the nicer establishments.
By installing a walk-through malevolence meter.
WTF?
Service dogs are fine. But NOT companion dogs being brought in as ‘service dogs’.
+1.
“..perhaps they’ll be a time when smelly grumpy incontinent old people will be barred... “
At least they don’t run out in traffic. Besides pizza doesn’t agree with many of them.
I’d go in a heartbeat,
There are places that I will take my children, and places I won’t.
If he wants to cater to the “no kids” crowd he is welcome to do exactly that. As you said, his place, his rules.
I love children, well-behaved and in the proper setting. But because most children nowadays receive NO training or discipline at home, they are a PITA out in public. That is why I wish restaurants offered “Children or No Children” areas, rather than “Smoking or No Smoking”.
I don’t think of it as a “no children” area, but a “no screaming section”, which I ask the host for every time I dine out. I’m paying good money to enjoy a nice evening out with Mrs DocRock and not to have my nerves shattered by painfully loud screamers at the next table.
save me a seat!!! i like kids but do not have to be surrounded by them all the time.
Yes, fight scenes invariably perpetrated by Amish BT-1000s.
If kids are running around and being disruptive, I call one of them over and give them my diet drink and tell them to take it over and give it to mommy. That brings the problem to a screaming halt.
He was always well behaved. But I agree parents shouldn’t let their kids run around or make messes like they would at home. I don’t really encounter that in restaurants. Once or twice at a buffet way back, but we seldom go to those because the food just isn’t all that great imo.
I did recently at a somewhat upscale Mexican restaurant, where a kid (8 years old or so) kept literally screaming. The parents thought it was cute and were laughing about it. I asked to be seated elsewhere, and was told there were no other seats available, so I simply left...after telling the parents that they'd ruined my evening. They responded with a slew of profanity.
Life's too short to endure this sort of thing.
has to do with insurance rates and if you sell more food than liquor you can pack heat there as well.
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