Upscale restaurants: Not "family-friendly"

To think that I don't belong in a nice restaurant with my family is a crock of shit, and you know it.

 

A nice restaurant, sure.

An "upscale" restaurant, where people are paying for ambience as much as they are food? Not if your kid needs more-than-usual attention.

Just my opinion.

 

It's about expectations as someone pointed out at the outset.

If you go to your local greasy spoon/dinner for Saturday morning breakfast and there are kids everywhere, that's the way it should be. If you're a customer and whining about it, then you're the one who has the problem. Eat at home.

However, if I'm at an upscale restaurant where you could buy three Big Mac combos for the prize of an appetizer, then, yeah, I expect NOT to have to listen to crying babies, kids who don't behave or parents who think it's their right to have kids running around.

 

I'm assuming you mean she would have said something to them. What would she have said?

 

You can bring the infant to a restaurant, but if it's a fairly expensive place and it's past 7pm, the infant needs to behave like an adult. Maybe you don;t understand it, but for many people a night out at an expensive restaurant is not a average occasion, but a rare exception. We don't need your screeching bundle of hell interrupting our 1 night a month without our kids.
It's called manners and civility, thinking about others and how our actions affect those around us.

 

Manners, civility and etiquette are dead. Have been for a long time.

 

Maybe you don't understand it, but for me a night at an expensive restaurant is not an average occasion, but a rare exception. We don't need you and your screeching drunken friends interrupting my 1 night a month out with my family.

 

Three Bags, what places are you taking Hard but Fair?

I think there might be a breakdown in communication here.

In my opinion, if there is a kid next to me at Outback or the Cheesecake Factory, I won't even notice it.

But if there is a kid next to me at The Melting Pot, then I will notice it, and I won't like it.

 

i would expect management to remove screeching drunks from an upscale restaurant just like i would expect not to have to deal with a disruptive child.

 

We don't eat at chain restaurants like Chili's, Cheesecake Factory or Outback.

I just don't understand why a kid next to you at the Melting Pot is a problem.

 

It's a pin-drop type of place.

The other places have a lot of noise and activity.

 

Really? All those women out for "girls' night out" are quiet as church mice?

The Melting Pot is one place I just don't get, but that's just me, and I'll save it for another topic.