I don’t eat at restaurants much anymore. If I do it is because I’m with guests or The Wife, so I go to the higher end places to avoid the riff-raff that makes eating unpleasant.
Like people who shouldn’t have children, with children.
Thankfully, someone is catering to my demands.
Restaurant to Parents: No Screaming Kids Allowed
“Screaming Children Will NOT Be Tolerated!†say placards posted at the Olde Salty restaurant in Carolina Beach. N.C. And while the signs may seem to be telling some parents their patronage is unwelcome, restaurant owner Brenda Armes said it’s actually been a business boon.
“It has been a good thing for us,†Armes told NBC affiliate WECT. “It has brought in more customers than it has ever kept away.â€
Indeed, a first-time diner at the Olde Salty told WECT he embraced the signage. “It’s not very enjoyable when you hear a bunch of kids screaming,†Gary Gibson said. “It’s nice to see a sign like that up.â€
No shit. I’d make it a point to not only inform the owner/manager of a place with a sign like that of my approval, but to go there frequently.
But not all agree: In fact, one local woman told the station she believes the sign is downright illegal. Kelly Chambliss, the mother of an autistic child, accused Armes of discriminating against special-needs children.
“I think she needs to meet some of these kids, and I think she needs to see that they are awesome,†Chambliss told WECT. “Please don’t shut them out because they don’t fit in the perfect box everyone wants them in.â€
First of all, I’ve seen so many standard grade brats labeled as “autistic” that I already suspect this lady of being a world-class twit. Secondly, if her kid is “awesome”, then he is not screaming and is therefore welcome in the restaurant.
How come this is so difficult for some people to understand?
Just because someone finds a doctor willing to give a bad parent an excuse as to why they’re not to blame for their child’s behavior doesn’t give them a free pass to ruin the peace and quiet of the other patrons. The kid should get one warning and then taken out to the car. The parent gets to sit in the car with the kid until either they act right or the rest of the family is done eating.
My kids both tried raising hell in a restaurant once each. Same result both times and no fellow diners have been disturbed since.
I have a son who is two and a half years old. From time to time he’ll make some noise (SOME, not a lot) but we put him in check and do not let him get away with running around and being obnoxious. We also know what kind of restaurants that an occasional peep will be OK in and what kind we should avoid out of respect for the other customers. It’s not that hard. It’s a private business and people can go wherever they want. If she is so upset by this, why does she want to give the restaurant owner her money? Oh, wait, because she’s obnoxious and wants to shove her “awesome” kid down everyone’s throat.
Autism is a serious disease.
However it is no excuse for a caregiver to inflict other people with screams and tantrums.
I have found the phrase, “Are you going to control your little animals?”, works quite well in those situations, heh, heh, heh.
I once squashed some kids’ obnoxious behavior in a Federal Way fast food dump – they were running laps and SCREAMING, with parents doing nothing – by simply saying to my wife, “That’s so ghetto.”
The mother INSTANTLY shouted at the kids and told them to sit down and shut up.
I had just arrived back in the US after spending three weeks in an Asian country where, in the more traditional/rural areas, children literally KNEEL when an adult walks by.
That’s excessive, but holy crap, what a difference.
I think the sign is excessive.
Excessive warning, that is. Children’s tantrums, etc should NEVER be tolerated in a public restaurant. If the child misbehaves, it is the DUTY of the parent(s) to remove the child to a place where they can be quieted down, and if that doesn’t work, to remove themselves from the restaurant.
The restaurant management, in turn, owes adult diners some peace and quiet. If a family is misbehaving, the management is correct to show them the door, no questions asked, no prior warnings given.
I believe the restauranteur has made the correct decision for his business and his customers, and if I were in that area, I would patronize his restaurant.
However, he IS going to get sued and he IS going to get charged with violations of about fifty Federal “civil rights” laws and he IS going to get screwed, blued, tattooed, raped, and crucified by The Man.
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the First Amendment right to freedom of association is deader than King George. If you own a business, if you rent apartments or houses, you are required to let in anyone who shuffles in the door–gangbangers, drooling crazies throwing their own feces, and people with a dozen screeching, projectile-vomiting toddlers. The law as written was left deliberately vague at the time, to gain support from those mean old conservatives who asked whether it would lead to exactly this, and asked questions about that pesky old Constitution. But don’t worry. Forty-five years of standing legal precedent, forty-five years of “interpretation” of the law by Federal judges appointed by Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and Obama have made the law crystal clear.
So if you want to eat at the Olde Salty, you’d better do it soon. Eric Holder is warming up the bulldozer now.
I’ve got an idea, just outlaw kids. Who needs’em anyway? They’re certainly not important in the long run, are they? They don’t have any rights legally either so …
I don’t have a problem with “non-smoking” nor “no kids” private establishments nor “smoking allowed” nor “kids welcome” private establishments.
I do have a problem with idiotic adults who think kids have no place in society except “out of sound and mind.” That’s the primary problem in America today, we’ve ignored our kids and failed to teach them the importance of family, marriage, life, faith and liberty!
jmho
And there you hit on it, Pal,: Childhood is 24/7 training for adulthood. Parents need to take heed of this and train their children to be polite and respectful of others.
It is parents who refuse to do this and let their anklebiting snot-rockets who ruin for everyone else.