Discount at restaurants for well behaved kids (have to tell, autism, support)
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Gotta be honest here.....chilis, Applebee's, tgifridays and the like would be the LAST place on my radar for an evening out sans kids......bar or not.
For me and mine, its more of a stop on the way to or from movies but my brother worked at the local chain with a bar while in college. He said it was a big scene for the over 40 somethings to sing karaoke, play pool, etc.
Seriously? We should only take kids to restaurants with ball pits? Should we wait until they are 21 to take them to chili's or applebees? red robin is my kids favorite. They even give out balloons. And they have a bar. The horror.
Where did I say that?
What I said was for parents who think it is too much to ask that children be non-disruptive in the restaurant they should pick restaurants geared towards children. That parent then said TGIFs, Chilis, etc were geared towards children. I think those restaurants are clearly marketing themselves to the adult set due to the existence of the bar, pool tables, sports memorabilia, etc while child themed restaurants market themselves by their features, like a ball pit or play area.
Well behaved children are welcome at any restaurant, aren't they?
For me and mine, its more of a stop on the way to or from movies but my brother worked at the local chain with a bar while in college. He said it was a big scene for the over 40 somethings to sing karaoke, play pool, etc.
Well I guess we have way too many good micro breweries and local restaurants here for a Chilies to a scene for the over 40's crowd.
Well I guess we have way too many good micro breweries and local restaurants here for a Chilies to a scene for the over 40's crowd.
When we get a girls night out, we hop. We start at one place and go to many over the course of an evening. Rarely do we go out to a fancy restaurant for GNO unless we are going to the city. We are much more interested in socializing then eating, places like the chains are much more conducive to socializing in a group than the Four Seasons.
What I said was for parents who think it is too much to ask that children be non-disruptive in the restaurant they should pick restaurants geared towards children. That parent then said TGIFs, Chilis, etc were geared towards children. I think those restaurants are clearly marketing themselves to the adult set due to the existence of the bar, pool tables, sports memorabilia, etc while child themed restaurants market themselves by their features, like a ball pit or play area.
Well behaved children are welcome at any restaurant, aren't they?
Never have i seen a pool table in an applebees or a chili's. Why does a restaurant have to be geared toward only 1 demographic? Do adults not accompany the children into these places? Are they not allowed to have a drink with dinner? What a ridiculous argument this thread has turned into.
Do you really think these parents don't try to be "consistent in reinforcing what is and isn't allowed." Do you really think that notion never crossed their mind or that they aren't already trying to instill this? Children are individuals and have their own personalities and unfortunately some are very head strong regardless of what parents do. Instead of judging those parents or trying to reward or punish parents, how about we just relax and accept that some very good parents have some "high energy kids" that are going to behave poorly in a restaraunt at times. And in my experience, some people are very hypersensitive. Who cares if a kid stands up in their seating area or runs off when the mother calls to them. "Oh my dining experience is just ruined now because their kid stood up while they were eating"
Likewise, when people see you spanking and yelling at your kids at the top of your lungs to keep them seated in a restaurant, no one thinks you are a good parent, they think you are an idiot who lacks patience and doesn't understand children very well. To judge another parent in that situation is hypocritical on your part. Everybody has been there. Everyone has had kids misbehave in a restaurant, it doesn't make them bad parents.
Blah blah blah blahbity blah. What? You think you're the only parent on the planet with headstrong kids? And why do you equate having disciplined kids with yelling or spanking? It's quite possible that you can have well-behaved kids without resorting to that kind of foolishness.
I mean, if we were eating at a pizza place, sure. Let them run all over the place. But if I'm going someplace nicer for a quiet evening out and I have to listen to your out-of-control munchkins causing chaos then, yeah, I'm going to be annoyed. Me and everyone else in the restaurant for that matter.
It's very simple. You teach your kids from the get-go how to behave at a dinner table. If you let them wander all over the place during mealtime at home, they're going to wander all over the place in a restaurant. If they yell at your dinner table, they'll yell in the restaurant. Your job as a parent is to teach them better behavior wherever they are, and it begins at home.
Hey, I've had kids misbehave in public places. Guess what we did? We removed them from the place. As in pronto. We never had an escalating series of threats. We simply gave one warning and whisked them away if they disobeyed. Funny, we typically only had to do it once per child.
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red robin is my kids favorite. They even give out balloons. And they have a bar. The horror.
