We've all been there before you're out at a restaurant
you're enjoying your food you're enjoying the company that you're with
you're enjoying the environment until this happens you try not to stare because you know it's rude at
first it's just a little annoyance or a small disturbance that you can ignore you're hoping
it's going to stop but it doesn't stop so you glance once twice maybe three times
but when it doesn't stop and it escalates and it gets louder and louder more and more
distracting you start to feel a certain way about it and sometimes parents do take control of the
situation and the behavior stops but what happens when parents don't address the situation with
their children in fact they think it's cute or they encourage it or they ignore it all together
even though that behavior is disturbing everybody around them and that gets people
really upset and it brings us to the question should children be banned from restaurants some
people think yes and some people think no does the owner of the restaurant have the right to say who
eats and who doesn't eat at their establishment hi i'm hannah life without kids is a non-judgmental
community to support your choice to live the child free life banned from restaurants could mean a
couple of different things it could mean that the owner has chosen to make the restaurant an
adult's only restaurant and absolutely no children are allowed or it can mean that children under a
certain age are not allowed during a certain time there are several restaurants that have come out
and said you know what we're taking a stand on this there was a restaurant in australia that
started to ban children under the age of seven after there was an incident with a screaming baby
and this restaurant said a child caused 1500 worth of damage by scratching their walls with a quarter
oh my goodness i would be so choked at the parents that let their kid do that this restaurant took a
slightly different approach when it allowed no strollers high chairs booster seats or allowed
children in their restaurant this upscale italian restaurant actually saw an increase in the number
of diners that came to their restaurant once they enforced a no kids rule the restaurant's owner
pascal caruso said that the restaurant was starting to lose patrons and they were starting
to lose money because kids were running around throwing food and screaming he said that the
tipping point of banning kids under the age of five was when a little girl was on an ipad and
the volume was so loud it was really disruptive to the other people in the restaurant the parents
were approached and asked to turn down the ipad and they repeatedly refused to do so
yoshi the restaurant's manager actually said that the parents didn't seem to care about what
other guests thought we tried to be nice about the situation but we're here to take care of customers
and we can't tell a parent how to control their kids which is very true parents are going to
raise their kids the way that they want and that means that those children might be disrupting
other people if parents think that's okay and so finally in january of 2020 he said he was going
to put a stop to it that's when he decided to ban kids that were under the age of five he's
actually a father of two kids and so he says this decision wasn't about trying to be exclusive he's
trying to keep a nice atmosphere in his restaurant and he wants that atmosphere to be elegant what do
you guys think of banning kids in restaurants let me know down in the comment section below
abc's rebecca jarvis has more on a rather controversial policy
there's nothing we can do about that that's a child it's a real life sex and the city moment
but unlike the tv version the kids behaving badly at lorraine mcduff's rainy days cafe
in lake stevens washington promptly got the boot wow good for her i feel like that's something
that a lot of people wouldn't feel comfortable saying i told her that she was gonna have to leave
that we had just paid good money to have our carpets cleaned and i didn't appreciate that her
kid was stomping crumbs into the carpet taking the whole mess to facebook writing a couple of
ladies came in today and this is the mess their children made i put it on facebook for my regular
customers who are always neat and tidy and ones who have very small children and it's not fair to
them to not be recognized for the good work they do it's the owner's restaurant so i feel like it
makes sense that if they see a child behaving badly and the child won't stop the behavior
that they're allowed to take the next step in asking the child or the and the parents obviously
to leave the restaurant i know this probably is never going to sit well with a parent but
if the parent can't get the child to behave then why should the owners of the restaurant have to
put up with that behavior her post going viral prompting a ferocious facebook debate including
rainey you fail and newsflash you're in the industry to serve suck it up and serve
and clean oh i have such a problem when people say that oh it's hard to tell exactly how big
the mess was but if she's comparing it to people that usually come in with kids and
it was exceptionally messy then i could understand why she's complaining about it yes a restaurant
is in the service industry and there is a certain amount that they are going to
have to clean up after people i totally get that however when kids come in and behave
so badly that they make a giant mess you're going to have to take extra time to clean up because
someone's child didn't use their table manners that's not okay i don't think that's okay at all
we're talking just about kids here but it goes for adults too if adults are causing an excessive mess
i just think it's so disrespectful that space is someone's pride and joy that's their business you
don't go there and just create a massive mess and then leave and expect people to clean up after you
i just think that's in very very bad taste editing hannah here i just wanted to add in one quick
thing i get a little passionate about this topic because i used to work in the service industry and
i've seen people come into restaurants and just trash the place and expect the restaurant staff
to be okay with cleaning up their massive mess i'm not just talking about a little mess restaurants
should still be treated with respect yes people are going to make a bit of a mess but an excessive
mess is never okay i wanted to add that there are many parents who teach their kids proper table
manners and how to behave in public and what's acceptable and what isn't acceptable and so from
the bottom of our hearts i say thank you to all of those parents that have taken the time to do
that this video is more specifically focused on parents who allow their children to misbehave and
choose not to do anything about it or who think that type of behavior in public is acceptable
many also coming to mcduff's defense yay for you i'm a teacher who loves children but some families
have no behavior expectations for their children in restaurants everybody's allowed to have their
opinion allowed to live their own life and that's what we're trying to do and honestly if a parent
can't get their child's behavior under control maybe maybe they shouldn't take them out i don't
know i'm not saying that kids have to behave perfectly all the time i understand that they're
children so who's really in the right i think a flat out ban on children in restaurants is going
way too far it's way too extreme sometimes it's parents that want to get away from their kids
and they're having a date night and your kids running around so it's just a no-win situation
that's very true just because you have kids doesn't mean you want to go to a restaurant
and hear other people's children misbehaving if you're trying to have a nice adult night i think
that's a great point still macduff's not the first to ban kids at la fisheria restaurant in houston
they live by the seven by seven rule no kids seven and under after seven pm so while it may
be leaving a bad taste in some people's mouths for others it's their favorite off the menu edition
a few of the most popular comments in this video were as follows parents love to blame others for
their mistakes owners can do what they feel is best for their business if you don't agree
go somewhere else that's the joy of the free world that there is variety one time i saw a kid vomit
spaghetti on the floor and then step in it if i lived in that state i'd give that restaurant
business every weekend i get sick and tired of parents that let their children run wild and think
they have the right to do so who cares if they don't want their kids there it's their restaurant
go somewhere else if you want more family-friendly environment sometimes people would like to go out
and have an adult atmosphere there's nothing wrong with that airlines need to do the same it's out
of control control your kids or stay at home a question that often comes up is are parents or
child free happier to find out go ahead and watch the video that appears on your screen right here
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