OT: NJ Restaurant Bans Kids Under 10

[LionFan87b]

A restaurant in NJ recently decided to ban children under 10 years old. Some of the outrage over this reminds me of how many whiny, entitled complainers we have in our society. What's wrong with a restaurant wanting to provide a certain atmosphere for its customers? As much as I love eating out with my wife and kid, there are times when we don't need to be around young children.

Popular N.J. Italian restaurant bans children under 10 years old

Customer response has been polarizing as popular joint adds age restriction for dining room

www.nj.com

 

[fastlax16]

Suburbs problems.

 

[PSU Soupy]

I wonder if they will card kids.....will there be fake ids........ if restaurant is good, fake ids for 10 years olds could be a booming business.

 

[PSU20]

Don't blame them one bit. Why loose good paying customers for screaming/crying kids that make a mess a restaurant. Just happened to me the other night. As soon as I sat down the kid started a tantrum and would not shut up for 1/2 hour. Food left all over the floor and ever dinner around them was annoyed. One night the waitress asked politely not to have their kids crawling on the floor since she was tripping over them trying to serve them. About 10 of them in their party "stiffed her" WITH NO TIP.

If you are going to annoy other patrons who are out for a nice quite dinner, leave you brats at home. There were five children in my family and never did any off us create a ruckus in a restaurant. Today is different, and other patrons are supposed to accept it. "Bullshit"........

 

[Online Persona]

A restaurant in NJ recently decided to ban children under 10 years old. Some of the outrage over this reminds me of how many whiny, entitled complainers we have in our society. What's wrong with a restaurant wanting to provide a certain atmosphere for its customers? As much as I love eating out with my wife and kid, there are times when we don't need to be around young children.

Popular N.J. Italian restaurant bans children under 10 years old

Customer response has been polarizing as popular joint adds age restriction for dining room

www.nj.com

They don't let them in a number of establishments so why is a restaurant treated differently? I love kids but a business has every right to make these decisions.

 

[fastlax16]

They don't let them in a number of establishments so why is a restaurant treated differently? I love kids but a business has every right to make these decisions.

They don't let them in a number of restaurants already, nice restaurants in every major city in the us don't allow them. I haven't been to my favorite restaurant in Chicago since my son was born.

 

[Obliviax]

works for me. As a parent, now with grown kids, the kids all learned they could get away with stuff while out dining. They'd act up, you have to give them attention or they act up more and make a scene. So you either inconvenience other diners or you reward the behavior (making it worse the next time you go out). So we started to just go to places that catered to kids. If we wanted to go out to someplace nice, we went by ourselves and brought the kids stuff home.

I support this 100%.

 

[Lion84]

Looking at the place and the menu (no childrens menu) I get why they would do this - more on the upscale side. When our kids were young and we wanted to go out for a nice dinner we left the kids with the babysitter and were not happy if their were screaming little kids around us when we sat down. Today it seems many parents think there kids should be able to go anywhere and everyone should be OK with it - and it seems they feel that there is no need to make sure they behave either - I have seen many parents just ignore thier kids when they run around and annoy eberyone around them in a restauarant - and hey if you don't like their policy for kids don't go - problem solved.

 

[LionFan87b]

There's an article on Bon Appetit with a headline that basically says that if you don't like kids in restaurants, you should stay home. In the same article she says:

Of course, no one should be taking their 18-month-old to dinner at a pricey fine dining restaurant like Le Bernardin, or at least, that’s not the case I’m making.

Does she have no idea how snobbish that sounds? In other words, couples who can't afford expensive restaurants (or who don't live near any) should not be able to have a nice, quiet dinner together?

 

[psu1969a]

IMHO, menu is so-so. Hope their service and food preparation/presentation is excellent because menu is very limited.

 

[LionFan87b]

IMHO, menu is so-so. Hope their service and food preparation/presentation is excellent because menu is very limited.

I've never been there, but the menu looks good to me. IMHO, the best restaurants focus on great food, not on having 50 choices on the menu. In fact, some of the hardest tables to reserve are at places where there is no menu. You show up, and you eat whatever the chef prepares.

 

[PS4814]

Nothingburger clickbait article hoping to stir up some rage against a restaurant banning kids which has been done at many other restaurants for years. I fully support any establishment that wants to do keep kids out of their business. However I do feel for families these days as the number of places to go w/your kids has decreased over the years.

Many of the family friendly chain restaurants are no more, and while there are still some out there like Applebee's, Friendly's, Red Robin etc. they seem to be on life support at this point. Chuck-e-cheese has shuttered dozens of locations with more likely in the near future, though they were already getting rough 20 years ago . Getting a bit away from restaurants but other traditional kid friendly activities like roller skating, arcades, mini-golf, and family fun centers have also closed up shop - replaced with trampoline parks that I'll be honest I'm not a fan of due to the risk of injury.

Anywho no rage here against the restaurant, just the media outlet that decided to make a story out of nothing.

 

[LionFan87b]

Nothingburger clickbait article hoping to stir up some rage against a restaurant banning kids which has been done at many other restaurants for years. I fully support any establishment that wants to do keep kids out of their business. However I do feel for families these days as the number of places to go w/your kids has decreased over the years.

Many of the family friendly chain restaurants are no more, and while there are still some out there like Applebee's, Friendly's, Red Robin etc. they seem to be on life support at this point. Chuck-e-cheese has shuttered dozens of locations with more likely in the near future, though they were already getting rough 20 years ago . Getting a bit away from restaurants but other traditional kid friendly activities like roller skating, arcades, mini-golf, and family fun centers have also closed up shop - replaced with trampoline parks that I'll be honest I'm not a fan of due to the risk of injury.

Anywho no rage here against the restaurant, just the media outlet that decided to make a story out of nothing.

I agree with you about the media in general, but there are actual people giving this place negative reviews because of the change in policy.

 

[GreggK]

There's an article on Bon Appetit with a headline that basically says that if you don't like kids in restaurants, you should stay home. In the same article she says:

Of course, no one should be taking their 18-month-old to dinner at a pricey fine dining restaurant like Le Bernardin, or at least, that’s not the case I’m making.

Does she have no idea how snobbish that sounds? In other words, couples who can't afford expensive restaurants (or who don't live near any) should not be able to have a nice, quiet dinner together?

I have a three year old and I cannot understand why anyone would have a problem with this. Our little one thankfully, for the most part will sit all dinner and color or talk (NO IPADS EVER!). That being said, I 100% understand a restaurant not wanting kids because so many parents don't know how to set boundaries for their children. We have friends who we avoid going to dinner with them and their kid now because they just let them walk around the restaurant. And they will be like "well we don't want him to get mad".

The people who are angry with the restaurant for this are exactly the people who shouldn't be bringing their kids.

 

[Cletus11]

fake outrage. not allowing kids into restaurants has been around since at least the 70's. zero chance you could bring your kid into a higher end restaurant in the 70's or 80's. this type of article is perpetuated by the current crowd that basically are socialist anarchists in that you should be able to do anything you want and everybody else should just accept it.

 

[Woodpecker]

It's like déjà vu all over again