So, as a guy who owns a manufacturing business, and is familiar with lots of materials, I run screaming from FDA regulations. Not because I think they are onerous, just that I know how rigorous they are. It’s not my area or market anyway, although it I get calls for some of our products. If it is anywhere near food…

“No Dad! Someday I’m gonna smoke weed for the government! I’m gonna make sure it’s safe for the people! You’ll see!”

That’s the Chili’s/Friday’s/Olive Garden market niche. Parents with young kids and alcoholics that make the same messes as a three year old.

Oranges Juliorum, surely? Plural genitive? This is Exhibit A in quid opus editoribus Gawker ect ect ect.

I’m personally a huge fan of kids acting like complete assholes in restaurants, because it takes the heat off me and my kids. My kids are generally pretty well behaved, but those times when there’s some truly awful piece of shit kid elsewhere in the restaurant, absorbing everyone’s dirty, judgmental looks so I don’t…

Well, let’s just call you Jackson Pollack because you like to paint with broad strokes! As a parent, I can tell you with 100% assurance...my wife and I do everything we can to keep our kids from disrupting other diners when we go out. But we do a good job raising our kids, so they don’t run around anyway. So, not all…

I don’t want to sound unsympathetic to the restaurant here - I put on soundproof headphones if there’s a child under 15 in view on any flight/train trip/other occasion where I can’t just leave. I appreciate that one of their intents is to protect the quality of my evening out. But, one of the reasons I’m here on this…

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…

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!

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?

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

says he was “horrified” to receive the notice

Hot take: the restaurant is being reasonable with the notice, the dad is pearl clutching a little too hard, but the waiter was being a dick if he kept handing the notice to the dad. Like got it, good, I can read mother fucker.

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.”

Another excuse not to eat granola? I’ll take it!

I will hold out until they release the “Freedom Reserve Lime”

Better idea: Ignore articles that aren’t relevant to you or your lifestyle.

Yeah, prices of things should never increase, even when the value they represent increases a lot. :-)

Thanks for the obligatory parent shaming. It just wouldn’t be a comment section without it.

As a parent of three kids, I’m not sure I’ll be taking advice from someone named “worried-parent”.