Restaurant That Banned Kids Under 10 Responds to Public Outcry
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I wish more places were like this.
There are tons of options for family friendly restaurants to let your kids run around in. People don’t always want to feel like their dining in the middle of a playground and it’s great to see a business stand up for their values like this.
It’s nice going to have a meal without listening to screaming kids.
Get in, we’re going to Nettie’s for spagh
Generally speaking, this is a good move for a restaurant and I expect that a lot of customers will go there for kid-free dining.
Specifically, though, the owners named their place “Nettie’s House of Spaghetti,” and they’re surprised that it attracts a lot of kids?
Parent privilege is the worst.
The people bitching probably have the crotch spawns screeching and running around in public settings.
Why not just convert it into a bar that also serves food? That way they can card people at the door if they are not 21 and older.
It’s win win
>So they can learn to be people in the world
Yea but the parents have to actually follow through in teaching that. But there’s a portion of parents that can’t/won’t/don’t.
“My bad. My bad. You’re right. It was wrong to ban kids under 10. We’re changing it…to banning kids under 13. Fuck you! Eat a dick! Nettie Spaghetti out!”
Some parents just don’t keep their kids in line when out at a restaurant. If I’m going to pay a premium for a dinner at a restaurant that is calm sit-down place, I don’t want the atmosphere ruined with temper tantrums and screaming over the ambient music playing.
People upset about this need to understand that their kids are not, and should never be, the problem of others. That includes staff and patrons. Don’t like it? Don’t eat there. Can’t get a sitter? That’s your problem, not mine.
As a parent, this is absolutely fine. At those prices, I don’t want to feed my kid fancy pasta that he’s just going to throw or smear anyhow. He’s really well behaved and is more than capable of sitting and eating dinner without making a scene, but he’s also young enough that chaos generates spontaneously in his brain. It is what it is. I wouldn’t bring him to a hibachi, steakhouse, or the like, either.
Ahhh, of course. I forgot that this sub collectively hates children.
Take your kids to the local rat cheese emporium instead to run around and make a mess.
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I don’t know how you can be mad about this. Whether it’s Toyota promoting reliability or Disney World promoting the creation of memories, every business has to position and differentiate itself.
Whether Nettie’s strategy is successful remains to be seen, but anybody that would complain about this is an entailed pain in the ass who thinks the world revolves around them.
“Community-centered child-rearing?” Sounds like you just don’t want to do it yourself.
They just interviewed someone who had worked in the industry since they were 14 and didn’t even consider mentioning child labor. Cool cool.
This is the stupidest video I have ever seen. Should be a 3 sentence article
“If tolerating other people’s kids should learn to be people in the world is te last remaining expression of community-centered child-rearing, then I am solidly in favor of defending it.”
Riiight. This is why I get pissed when I can’t bring my kid into nightclubs and R rated movies and porn shops. They need to learn how to be people! /s
Seriously though, community-centered child-rearing is all well and good but that doesn’t mean let your kids go mental and bother other people, to blame restaurant staff when your kid gets injured, or to get pissed off when someone else disciplines your child for being a nuisance.
Also fuck off with with your kids. Imaging finally finding a free night to have a date night with your partner, arranging for a babysitter, getting to the restaurant and sharing a quiet moment with the person you love only to have somebody else’s kid screaming and crying and yelling and running around.
As a parent of two kids, I have no issue with this.
This is a more upscale restaurant, it makes sense. If it’s what some sit down that had $13 burger meals or something I would say it’s very strange. But a specialty spaghetti sit down with higher prices, whatever. If I “need” spahget with the family there is always places like Olive Garden.
My kids cut their teeth at Friendly’s. You knew that most of the other parents and grandparents were there doing the same thing. Teaching your child restaurant manners. If they get antsy, bring out the toys, the provided the crayons. Nobody was casting out sneers, it was the expected environment.
I don’t have kids, but I went out recently with my extended family, with 3 kids under 5 present. $50/plate. We were seated in the middle of the dining room, and I was surprised at how embarrassed I was during the meal. The kids, even when being well-behaved, had shrieky voices (to my ear). I remember thinking “everyone in this restaurant can hear them,” but my sister and her husband praised them for how good they were being.
The thing is…they WERE being good! And that’s when I realized that parents slowly get desensitized to their child’s voice pitch. But, since I wasn’t used to it, I felt like the whole world could hear them.
Which is why I think this is a good thing. Because, a lot of times, parents can’t even tell anymore if their child is inconveniencing others. They’re not bad parents—they’re just desensitized to the natural inconveniences of being a parent.
Considering the unreal volume of shitty parents who have no clue how to discipline their children, yet insist on taking them in to spaces where people are trying to relax and have a good time, I fully support this. You chose to have a kid, you have to make changes to your life, and that includes not going to restaurants that are $25+ a head with your loud ass kids. You’ve chosen the fast food and takeout life for at least 10 years friend. No one wants to have their nice meal, movie, coffee date, spa day, or whatever ruined by shitty, sticky, loud kids.
In short: fuck them kids.
I mean, you’re just choosing to lose some customers in order to make other customers happy.
If you can stand to sacrifice the business (because those parents are definitely business), it’s their choice.
How do people have the mental capacity to care about this.
If they’re not being discriminatory against a protected class then whoever they disallow from being in the restaurant isn’t anyone’s business. That’s that.
Not every public place has to be kid friendly. Yes, parents need a chance to teach their kids how to behave in public, but there are plenty of places they can do it, and many don’t even bother to try and just let their kids go wild. It would be nice to be able to go to a regular (not super high class/expense) restaurant without having to deal with rowdy little kids.
I imagine plenty of folks will want to take advantage of the new rules. I’m sure they’ll be fine.
All for it. Countless times we’ve been out for a special dinner away from our kids, and some parents sit next to us and bring in their toddler at 8 pm to a high end steakhouse. Last time the kid was literally melting down, tired and hungry, parents shushed her for 45 minutes while they ruined about 10 couples’ evening. But momma got her steak…
Good, fuck kids and their shitty parents
“if you don’t want to dine with kids maybe you should stay home!” Typical entitled Karen. If Karen can’t properly parent her kids, she can stay home. The restaurant is on our side. Bitch.