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re: Playing Kids Videos While Eating Dinner
Posted on 3/10/22 at 9:36 am to whatchamacallit
Posted on 3/10/22 at 9:36 am to whatchamacallit
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What says the F&D? Is it okay to play kids videos/games while eating dinner at a sit down, white linen table restaurant? Is it rude to ask someone to turn down the video?
If it keeps your kids quiet and not bothering other people, why not?
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Is it rude to ask someone to turn down the video?
Depends on the restaurant. If you're at Olive Garden, it's rude. If you're somewhere nicer, it's still rude but understandable
And yes, having obnoxious kids out at restaurants is shitty before anyone brings that up
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Posted on 3/10/22 at 11:26 am to Epic Cajun
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then you should address it with the establishment,
The manager isn't responsible for you being a trashy person that has no manners.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 11:28 am to whatchamacallit
frick no
This all day
This all day
Posted on 3/10/22 at 11:30 am to hehatedrew
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but they are little and at a Mexican place I’ll allow it, since it’s loud anyways.
then it isn't bothering other people. The thread is about decent restaurants that aren't blaring mariachi music. If your child's brainwasher is bothering the table next to you, there's nothing wrong with that person asking you to turn it down/off. The "establishment" is just another person asking you to turn it down. Why should that carry more weight than the person you are bothering?
Posted on 3/10/22 at 12:22 pm to shawnlsu
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The manager isn't responsible for you being a trashy person that has no manners.
Get out of your feelings baw. I've already said that I don't condone tablets or other forms of video to entertain children at dinner, but that doesn't mean that the person at an adjacent table should say something directly to them about it.
The appropriate conduct would be to have restaurant staff handle the issue.
Again, what are you going to do if you say something about it and they refuse to adhere to your suggestion? This is why you should let the restaurant handle it, you have no power to control the patrons at the other table.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 12:26 pm to shawnlsu
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Why should that carry more weight than the person you are bothering?
You truly don't understand the difference in authority between a random patron of a restaurant and the restaurant staff?
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:24 pm to Epic Cajun
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You truly don't understand the difference in authority between a random patron of a restaurant and the restaurant staff?
Do you understand they don't get paid to police your parenting?
Are you not able to respond in a rational manner if someone asks you to turn your kid's brainwasher down? Why would you respond differently to the same request if it comes from a 22 year old waitress?
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:30 pm to S
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This all day
Exactly.
I whip all their asses at tic tac toe to keep them in their place.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:31 pm to whatchamacallit
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Is it okay to play kids videos/games while eating dinner at a sit down, white linen table restaurant?
Bring headphones. Tablet + Headphones + quiet kids = absolutely no one will care what your kids are doing. Hell some of the white linen establishments in N.O. are the most loud and raucus
This post was edited on 3/10/22 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:36 pm to whatchamacallit
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Is it okay to play kids videos/games while eating dinner at a sit down, white linen table restaurant?
I don't bring my kid to places like this yet. I'll break out the tablet at casual places though to help keep him entertained.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:42 pm to shawnlsu
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Do you understand they don't get paid to police your parenting?
So, it's your responsibility as a random patron at a restaurant to police someone's parenting? It's on the restaurant to ensure that the atmosphere of the restaurant is acceptable. It is their restaurant after all.
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Are you not able to respond in a rational manner if someone asks you to turn your kid's brainwasher down? Why would you respond differently to the same request if it comes from a 22 year old waitress?
Are we referring to me? Because my answer to these questions could be completely different than someone else's answer. Some people would respond rationally, some people would respond in an outrageous manner. Regardless, the request coming from someone in a position of authority would weigh more than it coming from a random patron.
Your takes in this thread are terrible
Posted on 3/10/22 at 1:57 pm to shawnlsu
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Do you understand they don't get paid to police your parenting?
Are you not able to respond in a rational manner if someone asks you to turn your kid's brainwasher down? Why would you respond differently to the same request if it comes from a 22 year old waitress?
I wouldn't really give a shite what you thought about my parenting
Also kinda funny you keep talking about electronics as "brainwasher" while you're posting all throughout the day on the internet. Posted on 3/10/22 at 2:00 pm to Sun God
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We don’t let ours at restaurants. Never had to tell someone to turn theirs down though.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 2:09 pm to VABuckeye
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Rather than confront the other person directly I'd ask the staff to address the issue.
I have never had this happen with kids on electronics, but I have had to ask a waiter to talk to an adjacent table about their loud cursing in front of my children. I felt like a bitch getting the waiter to talk to them instead of just saying something myself, but it really is the restaurants place to police their atmosphere.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 2:11 pm to whatchamacallit
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Is it okay to play kids videos/games while eating dinner at a sit down, white linen table restaurant?
frick no. If your kids aren’t old enough or well behaved enough to sit still and carry on a conversation in a restaurant and have to be pacified with electronics, then they should not be there.
We’re raising a whole generation of social misfits and this is part of the reason.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 2:13 pm to Epic Cajun
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Your takes in this thread are terrible
They usually are, but then again I don't rely on restaurant employees to speak for me when I can just as easily do it myself.
Its a sad world where I can't ask you politely to turn your kid's tablet down so everyone can enjoy themselves without you getting your panties in a knot.
ETA: in that scenario, you are the problem for someone else having to address it in the first place.
This post was edited on 3/10/22 at 2:22 pm
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