Posted on 07/09/2011 7:21:34 PM PDT by Immerito
MONROEVILLE, Pa. -- Stephanie Kelley, of Trafford, has been a weekly customer of McDain's Restaurant and Golf Center. Not any more.
The eatery on Broadway Boulevard in Monroeville has decided to stop admitting young children, and she's the mother of a toddler.
"I can't believe this. I am offended. This is just an ignorant policy," Kelley told Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons.
In an email sent to loyal McDain's customers, owner Mike Vuick wrote, "Beginning July 16, 2011, McDain's Restaurant will no longer admit children under six years of age. We feel that McDain's is not a place for young children. Their volume can't be controlled and many, many times, they have disturbed other customers."
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It is possible she has a good child. She may feel she’s being “discriminated against” because of others of “her” group, IYW.
However, I think I would be more disappointed than anything else if I really liked the place. After all, the age thing changes - she can go back with him in a few years.
“No, it’s a private business. They have the right (or ought to ) to ban people from their establishment if they choose to do so.”
“Ought to” is the operative. Too many things have been declared off-limits already in our fascist nation, even though everyone should have the right to associate as they wish. They’ll put this under “age discrimination” before long.
LOL
This place seems to be in Pitcairn, but has a Monroeville address. It’s at the intersection of Rtes. 130 and 48. I’ve driven past, but haven’t eaten there. I don’t have kids, so it doesn’t really bother me that he doesn’t want young kids there. My parents never took us out to eat until we were about 10...and even then, it was McDonald’s or Big Boy. A big treat was getting to stop at Howard Johnson’s for some ice cream!
“there is no law that protects children from being denied service.”
Oh, call out the UN on the Rights of the Child!!!!
Get over it.
My children received many compliments on their good manners. Children under two, IMO, can be unpredictable. When my young children started fussing (even at a fast food restaurant), I’d leave with them. No one should have to listen to my kid fuss.
Not only do they insist on talking, but whoever they talk to is deaf. So, "Huh? What?" and the deaf usually shout instead of whisper. If an old couple try to sit near me, I'll move.
Oh, I have taken little kids to nursing homes to visit the inmates. They beg and cry for any little scrap of attention the child will give them. Just a few years before, I'll bet they were blackballing some young family in a gated club because they're "retired, don't want to do that anymore."
Hey, the world goes round and round.
Right on!
Like I said, it should be the restaurant’s choice, but there are so many things private businesses have dictated to them, I was just wondering if there’s some regulation somewhere that the institution is actually violating.
I agree. Wow I feel sorry for someone so jaded as to find children offensive. That they are “snotty brats.” Course I’m a child advocate and love children. Sure I don’t like it when they act up but I also don’t like the way some “adults” act either.
Oh give me a break. They “spit and stutter” because they are not fully developed, as you once weren’t. All the child-bashers must have been stuffy little old looking boring children, either that or the worse offenders:)
I’m with you. I’m not bothered by the kids so much as the adults acting like babies - THAT really burns me!
“Another RUDE thing that parents let their kids do...is give the waiter/waitress an order” <<
>>” Children learn by doing.”
But, I also remember when the male took care of the order for a lady and certainly the family. There are places for children to learn by doing. Though they are the center of our own universe it is debatable that they share that loft with the wait staff of restaurants. As all things gracious have quite declined, with respect to the graces, we now indulge kids who stammer or bark through a dinner order, usually accompanied with “hold this” and “add that” and “extra this and that” to a grown adult waiter who has to endure it. It’s embarrassing to see, for the sake of the waiter, and is generally disrespectful and demeaning, which often is made clear by the expression on the face of the waiter. In these cases it reflects poorly on the adults permitting it, often seen chuckling through such an unfunny moment.
“Another RUDE thing that parents let their kids do...is give the waiter/waitress an order” <<
>>” Children learn by doing.”
But, I also remember when the male took care of the order for a lady and certainly the family. There are places for children to learn by doing. Though they are the center of our own universe it is debatable that they share that loft with the wait staff of restaurants. As all things gracious have quite declined, with respect to the graces, we now indulge kids who stammer or bark through a dinner order, usually accompanied with “hold this” and “add that” and “extra this and that” to a grown adult waiter who has to endure it. It’s embarrassing to see, for the sake of the waiter, and is generally disrespectful and demeaning, which often is made clear by the expression on the face of the waiter. In these cases it reflects poorly on the adults permitting it, often seen chuckling through such an unfunny moment.
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"I can't believe this. I am offended. This is just an ignorant policy," Kelley told Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons.
Pernahhhnced ig'nernt.
Good lord, I hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me in today's fascist Democrat PC America.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with well-behaved children, but far too many parents let their kids do whatever they want and can’t control them when necessary because of not being used to actually parenting.
Oh, I have a feeling it WILL surge.
A restaurant adds by subtraction when it keeps away morons like this Stephanie Kelley and her litter.
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