100% wrong. All children are born as egocentric psycopaths. Only through sustained work do parents socialize them into being respectful, rule-abiding humans.

100% agree. Too many parents believe that it’s not possible to control children. Those parents need to stay home with their brood of shoulder shrugs.

lol, you had me up until olive garden. That’s basically the McDonalds of Italian food.

Especially the parents with sh*tty kids, because lets face it, shitty kids aren’t born, they’re made.

Over the years, my wife and I have actually gravitated away from chain restaurants almost completely. We eat out at locally owned places because the food is better, we trust that the owner/manager actually follows through on supporting their servers when shit does down, and very, very rarely are we treated to a bunch…

I agree with you 100% and more! People can call me a snob if they want, but when I’m enjoying a full service meal at Olive Garden I do not want the ambiance ruined by a preschooler.

It’s even wierder when she’s your bartender.

Gwen, there is no “both sides” argument to this. Children younger than the age of 5 have no business in any kind of full service restaurant. Toddlers can just as easily be taught the etiquette of how to behave in a restaurant while sitting on plastic McDonald’s benches. Once they get it, then they can be moved up the…

I think the idea is to get parents to keep their kids under control, not to actually kick people put of the restaurant.

Make it a kids menu/coloring page with a connect-the-dots puzzle that reads “MIND YOUR FUCKING KIDS”

In the linked article he says “he’s never seen such strict rule”. WHAT THE FUCK? No running in a restaurant where there are people carrying giant trays of super hot food? Oh the humanity!

I’m betting the waiter gave them the notice, and they slid it away without reading and the waiter just slid it back in front of them.

Parents would still ignore it on menus. Unless you make it special for the parents they’ll ignore it and carve out their usual “but that is for everyone else not me” exemption. Parents never think that rules for parents apply to them, they are for other parents, other people. You gotta make it specific, just like you…

Where you could ignore it, then kick up a mega fuss if it was pointed out? Hahahahaahaha, no.

Then why not just enforce the policy and ask them to leave. If you have to ask more than twice, then cut the passive aggressive bullshit and pull the trigger. I mean, what fucking good is having a policy like this if you’re never going to actually follow through on it?

If the waiter kept giving him the notice, I imagine that it was because the kid kept violating the policy.

As someone with works in a place that serves food, I can stress enough how annoying it is kids running, kids asking questions, there are stairs where I work, kids go and sit there, kids asking me questions, parents not attending their kids, I have been picking babies from the floor, I wrote already it’s annoying but…

Amin says, “the waiter kept slamming the notice down in front of him.”

says he was “horrified” to receive the notice

Problem with a hanging notice is that people won’t read it. Espiecally not the parents of young children because they are contantly overwhelmed and inwardly focused. The motto of the parents of young children generally seems to be “fuck your rules, I have kids to take care of and therefore am more important.”