[lexington minuteman 1775]

We were eating recently at a national chain steak house...there was a squalling toddler in a high chair..at least five adults at the table with it. We asked the waitress if they could try to do something....the adults were busy chatting and making NO attempt to make the kid stop screaming
She said the resturant had a policy that they said nothing to customers out of fear of law suits...as a customer if we wished to say something...go right ahead.
We did not go back there.
So hats off to McDains...
Resturants used to have the right to refuse service to anytone.
Freegards
Lex

[Daveinyork]

I would have left without paying.

[svcw]

When my youngest was six, we were at a restaurant with a crying (about) five years old. She got out of her chair walked over and told him “be quite this a restaurant, don't you have restaurant manners”.
His parents howled with laughter when he stopped crying. They asked us if they could treat her to a special desert, we said yes.
Now that she is grown with three of her own, they also have fantastic restaurant manners.
Bad behavior (mostly) stems from bad parents.

[Rebelbase]

“We asked the waitress if they could try to do something....the adults were busy chatting and making NO attempt to make the kid stop screaming”

That’s the kind of thing that would make me pull up a chair at their table and start whining at the top of my lungs.

[OneWingedShark]

>We asked the waitress if they could try to do something...

It was your offense [of them], why not bring it up to them yourself?

[knittnmom]

My parents owned a restaurant, but it was in a small town. We had a family who came in frequently, in which the parents had been in an accident that impaired their ability to think, and their children were quite precocious and active - not malicious, just a little rowdy for their own and our other customers’ good. After I successfully made their children behave a few times (without laying a finger on them or making threats), I found out that when I wasn’t there, and the children were acting up, their parents would say: “You’d better behave. I heard knittnmom coming around the corner!” and they would behave.