Restaurant Sends Unruly Tots and Their Parents Outside

When will this new generation of parents get it through their heads that not everybody loves their children - particularly those offspring of parents who know no bounds in letting their rude and inconsiderate darlings misbehave. Many parents are oblivious to how their kids act in public. LEARN TO BE A PARENT!!

Those who react negatively to this posting - I bet you're in this category. I'll go out of my way to patronize any establishmentt that has the guts to confront this problem and respects those customers and their kids who know how to properly behave in public. Kudos to the restaurant.

DC

I was traveling through Salina, KS years ago. Road weary, dead tired. In walked a young couple and three smaller children. I'm like oh, @%$#. Empty restaurant and they put them right next to me. End result.... the most amazing, well behaved children. I paid for their entire bill on my way out the door. It's all about parenting.

Just last week my wife and I tried to enjoy a nice quiet meal at Outback. Unfortunately there were two women (apparently Mother and daughter) in a booth next to ours with 3 children ranging in age around 4-6 years old.... climbing under tables, yelling, running, screaming etc....and the two women were completely oblivious to the commotion going on.

It was a shrewed business move. Losing their business is much better than perhaps several tables of others who would quietly leave and may not come back.

Absolutely right! In Texas we have the Alamo Drafthouse Theater (not sure if its in other states). Parents of crying babies or anyone with a phone on get one warning and then they are removed from the theater (sorry, no refunds). At least some restaurants need to keep this trend up as well. Its ridiculous to think that a room full of people should have to put up with the assault on their ears instead of asking the offending party to leave.

100% support restaurant decision...if the kids want pizza, let em go to Chucky Cheese...restaurants are in business to satisfy the patrons. Its hard enough to earn a profit, much less break even, in the restaurant business and nothing can ruin a night like an unruly child, or the inability of a parent to parent.

GOOD FOR THAT RESTAURANT! SInce most restaurants already reserve the right to refuse service, it seems that more of them could consider the needs of the 95% of customers who do NOT allow children to disrupt everyone else's meal. And running between tables is a genuine, SERIOUS safety hazard for diners, servers, AND the children.

today we have to bring out riot police just to sell athletic shoes - doesn't get any lower than that

If you can't control your children in public, do not bring them out into public. Your kids are your problem and are most likely nowhere near as cute as you think they are.

Good for them. I wish they also threw out the people with phones velcroed to their hands. Just cant put them down, their like herion addicts.Phone Junkies.

Parents need to relearn how to parent. If you don't want to teach your children manners, respect and discipline then stay home and eat dinner. And also remember, we send out children to school to learn how to read, write and do math. It is not the teachers or the schools who should be teaching this, it needs to be learned at home. Maybe if we start disciplining children the old fashioned way we won't need to build more juvenile detention centers AKA child prisons!

Now if the airlines would only start putting the screaming unruly kids and their parents outside. Especially the ones who kick the back of the seat in front of them for 5 hours straight.

I could take my two sons (2 and 3) out to Sunday dinner with my wife and get approving glances and comments from nearby diners. The kids sat in their high chairs around the table just like at home. What most modern parents don't seem to understand is that their children will behave exactly as you expect them to. If you expect them to behave, they will. If you allow them to their own devices then they really don't know what you want them to do. You must show them the way. Parenting takes as much leadership, if not more, than being in charge of an Infantry platoon!

Can we also send cell phone users outside?

I was out at a restaurant a few night's back and these 2 kids, probably 6-8 or so, were running around the restaurant screaming as loud as they could. Every time they passed my isle table they would bang into it, spilling drinks and disturbing our whole meal. The "adults" they were there with sat in a corner booth and did not do a thing to settle the kids down. When they got up to leave, I confronted one of these "parents" and politely asked him if this was acceptable behavior for these kids. He promptly told me " Go #$%$ Yourself". That was all the information I needed, as to why these 2 kids acted the way they did! They did get what was coming to them though. On their way out, the Manager told the same guy who told me off, not to return with these kids acting the way they had. This clown, and the "woman" he was with, laughed at him and slammed open the door. The youngest of the kids went flying out into the parking lot and nearly got smeared by guy driving a pickup. So the clown who told me off, smacks the guy's truck and yells at him. I so hoped that the guy would get out and Beat His A SS!!

This is great!!!!!!!! About time.

BRAVO!

I’m a parent and I totally agree with this restaurant!

We have 2 kids, now aged 5 and 6 and we eat out 2-3 times per week. Since eating out is such a big part of our lives, we raised our kids to be respectful and QUIET when in a restaurant. We took them to their first restaurant when each turned 1 and have NEVER had a problem with them. They know better. Too many times have we seen other parents with their animalistic kids ruining everyone’s evening at a restaurant and vowed we will never be “those people”. We use only positive reinforcement with our kids and have never spanked them. The worst punishment they ever get from us is no TV for a few days. Disappointing their mother or I is all the motivation they need.

And by the way, we primarily eat at higher-end restaurants, which typically frown upon kids. However, we are such a fixture at our local South Florida restaurants such as The Forge, Burt and Jacks, Joe’s Stone Crabs and many others, that we (and the kids) are welcomed with open arms.

If we can do it, why can’t other parents?

To the inexcusable, society recking, self-entitled, mannerless parents who think their children have the *right* to behave however they want...NO...NOT your house, NOT your street, NOT your store, NOT your restaurant...etc...etc...etc.

In any decent, civil, peaceful society its called common decency, respect, consideration and MANNERS...learn...or stay HOME.

Good !