re: Restaurant adds $50 ‘unable to parent’ fee for rowdy kids, menu reads

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The owner isn’t banning kids—only making parents accountable for making their kids behave. If your kids want to run around the restaurant screaming, then you as a parent need to take the kids outside to the car. Growing up, I remember throwing a fit in a restaurant once and I still remember my dad escorting me into the bathroom and giving me a well deserved spanking. Parenting isn’t rocket science.

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I would like to know what this restaurant owner considers bad parenting.

Is it a crying infant who soiled it’s diaper, and the parents are dealing with chaos from it? Is it kids who watch IPAD at the table so the parents can eat? Is it a child wining that they can’t get dessert? Is it a kid who is excited about a topic and talks loud to get their point across? Is it brother/sister bickering?

I don’t consider that bad parenting, but it requires an action from the parent to help with the situation. Maybe they are not taking action hence the fee.

It said on an earlier post that one family was charged because the kids watched IPAD quietly and then took a walk to go see something with their parent. That is ridiculous.

And no matter what the restaurant owners view is on bad parenting, the only thing that matters is if you piss off a customer or serve shitty food/provide horrible service, then 10 of their friends boycott you. That battle is not worth it to me if I was in that business. You have to be on your A game every day, and its reputation is tough to maintain.