let them take the little darlings to ChuckyCheese where they belong as usual, bad parents make good parents pay for their mistakes
Posted on 04/01/2017 4:27:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020
This seems to be a perennial argument in the food service industry but it never fails to attract my interest. The Washington Post picked up the story of an an upscale Italian restaurant in North Carolina called Caruso’s. They had run into a number of issues with parents bringing young and too often horribly behaved children into the eatery for dinner who then wound up annoying the rest of the clientele. As they tell the story, the straw which broke the camel’s back was a young girl with an i-Pad who was playing videos at full volume despite being asked to turn it down (or off) and the parents were completely failing to discipline her or resolve the situation. Shortly after that they imposed a ban on bringing children under the age of five into the establishment.
The typical howls of outrage from some parents began immediately, but there was another reaction as well.
The ban — conceived by the restaurant’s owner, Pasquale Caruso — has led to a dramatic increase in reservations, said Nunez, who said Caruso’s has seen a spike in diners, from about 50 per day to around 80.
“Banning children has always been a topic in the industry and every owner says, ‘I wish I could do it,’” he said. “Our owner has the full support of the staff. We work here to make a living, too, and we support our owner 100 percent.”
Good for them. Too often you see only one side of this debate in the press and it centers on the parents who are complaining and saying that families are being stigmatized or punished or what have you.
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The problem is the parents who are raising spoiled, self-centered, self-indulgent, uncivilized brats.
i would eat there, for sure!!
I used to live in Hong Kong which is a city of 350,000 spoiled children.
Last Sunday I was going up to Communion and passed a family where the kid, he was probably 7, was playing a video game on his tablet. The sound was off but come on.
Could have addressed problem by throwing out the offending parents/child.
Sign me up.
Eat at the bar to avoid the unruly brats...
Childen under 10 do NOT believe in an upscale restaurant. Period.
sheesh! Thats alot of spoiled brats!
100% the call of the owner. The market will decide. I have 3 young children and would never take them to a fancy restaurant. What’s the point? Everyone suffers. The kids would rather be a Papa Gino’s/Five Guys anyway. If the wife and I want a nice meal we suck it up and get a babysitter. It really isn’t that difficult.
Make a no screaming kid airline and I’m on board.
depends where u live... but Red Robin keeps anyone under 21 out of their bars. YAY.
what happens? Kids don’t eat there. Next story please.
This is on parents starting with Boomers and continuing through succeeding generations who never taught their children manners. These same parents act oblivious when their little brats are interfering with others’ enjoyment of a meal or a movie or even shopping.
I don’t vacation much in the USA b/c there are no “adults only” places you can go. I am forced to go to other countries if I want to actually relax without loud unruly and undisciplined brats underfoot.
An expensive restaurant that doesn’t allow kids? They should ALL be that way. Most kids are too young to appreciate fine dining anyway so why should others pay for the bad parenting?
at least ban them from 1st class seats.
Exactly. In many cases, the parents have no idea of how to interact with their children and do not teach them simple rules of behavior. Often, the child is dumped in daycare at 6 weeks, and the parents spend about a maximum of 2 waking hours daily with their offspring on week days.
“The problem is the parents who are raising spoiled, self-centered, self-indulgent, uncivilized brats.”
Exactly. The parents who will discipline and keep their children under control are the losers here, as the Dr. Spock parents who refuse to discipline ruin it for all.
I avoid the children’s Mass as much as possible because I become so distracted by parents who talk to their kids during the Mass as though they were sitting in their own home.
let them take the little darlings to ChuckyCheese where they belong as usual, bad parents make good parents pay for their mistakes
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