Pennsylvania Restaurant Bans Children

It's about time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/restaurant-bans-children_n_894548.html

 

Oh boy, you have to click on the link to the restaurant. It is a cheesy, low-rent kind of place with small tables and bar seating, complete with one old TV mounted high on the wall like in a hospital, and paper napkins. This is no fancy schmancy place where kids don't belong. I think I would ban the restaurant.

I find other people's children infuriating when we go out. If they are old enough to walk, they are old enough to sit and behave, and if they don't, the parents should remove them from the restaurant. However, I think there is a different expectation from a McDonalds and a high end restaurant. This one looks much closer to McDonalds. I wonder if they know the economy is bad and parents and grandparents, even those sans kids for an evening out, are likely to avoid the restaurant? I would look at it differently if we were talking about china, cloth napkins, candelight, and formal wait staff......

 

Don't be such a snob SPN. That's fine dining in PA.

I was in Costco the other day getting supplies for the office. This kid was screaming bloody murder forever and the mother did nothing so I walked over and told her to "shut her kid the f#$% up". She went nuts and found a manager.

 

I love restaurants that "ban" children under 12. I even like the ones that have special "areas" just for families so that us childless folk can eat in peace. There is nothing worse than spending 30 bucks or more and having your meal ruined by screaming kids. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

 

I agree that restaurants should be able to discriminate on any basis they choose.

Just curious, going back to GG's post on her "expensive" $30 dinner. What if instead of "kids" she substituted the word "blacks" would people feel the same way?

Should private businesses be allowed to deny service to anyone they choose for any reason they choose?

I say yes

 

Actually it is a good question. THe article addresses that by saying that they could not have gotten away w/ it if they had banned the elderly. Then again why would they because they are quiet.

 

Well, I should have known that my post would not be digestable by some with inadequate education and simpleton thinking, so in the spirit of the new CP lovefest, allow me to try to bring you along slowly.

It is clear that this restaurant is discriminating against families with small children. There is no denying that. It is clear that many on this board approve of this discrimination, you being one of them.

So why this discrimination and not others? In fact why can't restaurants discriminate against the elderly? Clearly this is age discrimination.

Now, I believe that a private entity should be allowed to deny entry to any person for any reason they choose, whether it be age, color, religion or if they have pimples on their face.

The reason is that I support free markets and if a business wants to turn away customers and can still stay in business, why is it anyone elses business?

The question I asked about blacks and your cromagnon, nonthinking response to it was what I fully expected from the likes of you.

 

Well, it is a good thing that there are so many who are willing to force their version on common sense on the unwashed masses

 

Very true. I don't know why parents treat kids as play prettys instead of human beings. Newsflash young parents: Your kids ain't special, they're just like everybody else.

 

Very true. I don't know why parents treat kids as play prettys instead of human beings. Newsflash young parents: Your kids ain't special, they're just like everybody else.

 

I gotta nut job.