I have been in restaurants where you can spend $50 plus, and unruly children are at the next table. The parents don't control their kids behavior. How do you deal with this situation? Complain to the manager, ask for a different table, or what? What ever happened to good manners and good etiquette. It can ruin a nice evening out.
2006-09-29 12:07:10 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
This has happened to me many times. No, I don't complain but I sure do flash them some dirty looks that's for sure.
2006-09-29 12:09:15 · answer #1 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Feel your pain. It is just insane anymore the way people carry on....what happened to manners you ask??? I think that is the burning question. I am 40 and the last out of six kids. If we did anything other than what we were supposed to we "Got the Look" Yep the curled upper lip. That was enough and you knew you better shape up. Now??? There is no fear of the upper lip, there is no respect for MOM...DAD and no fear(no I don't mean child abuse....just respect). If we were to act then like some of the kids act today.....we would still be in the emergency room having our fathers feet surgically removed from our BUTTS!!! I just don't understand how and why people think it is acceptable to let their kids do WHATEVER they want, when they want & where. Have they been doing lobotomies in the delivery room? I would and have moved tables. I have even been taken to a table.....did a survey of the surrounding tables and have asked for a different section. It is your right....you are there to enjoy you evening. I am not saying that people with kids don't deserve that right too but come on we all know what is right and wrong behavior. Complaining to the manager is kind of a mute point. If you have to tell someone to control their kids.....they just don't get it in the first place and probably never will. Thanks for letting me vent...this is a HUGE nerve with me!
2006-09-29 13:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I personally try to ignore it. I am a mother of four. My children usually behave in a restaurante. But I have from time to time run into people in family restaurantes who just don't like kids at all. My opinion, if you don't like children than at least you should reconcider going to a family restaurante.When your dealing with
extremely young children such as newborns and 1-2 years olds they are going to act up from time to time. I personally usually take mine to the bathroom and try to settle them down. My older ones know better and no longer do this. But I guess I'm more tolerable than some because I'm a mom. But I have had situations where I feel a child or two are way out of control. I usaully make a comment just loud enough for the parents to hear it or I ask for another table.
2006-09-30 04:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by jayzee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask the waiter or waitress if they could ask the rude ill mannered table if they could control their children, if that doesn't work ask for the manager. Then ask them to do the same thing. If that doesn't work ask for the phone number and the address to the corporation that owns the place. That usally gets some action going.
2006-09-29 14:06:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a problem these days that parents refuse to discipline their children's behavior, in and out of restaurants. In this situation, I would signal the waiter and ask to be seated at another table, far removed from the loud family. You cannot change anyone's behavior, but your own. Best wishes.
2006-09-29 12:12:38 · answer #5 · answered by Rhonda 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
don`t flash them dirty looks i would talk to THE MANAGER AND ASK him for a DIFFERENT TABLE and someone should build some restaurants and have kids side and an adults side or build restaurants where only adults can go to have nice evening out and if kid's won't to go have fun go to chunky cheese's and yes won't happend to good manners and etiquette
2006-09-29 12:33:43 · answer #6 · answered by horsesense1994 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The way some parents let their kids act out in public,you can imagine how they might act at home.To some people this is a normal way of life and so when they go out in public they don't notice this as much as someone else would .when this happens to me I just tell the waiter that I would prefer another table ,you usually don't have to explain to the waiter why he knows.
2006-09-29 12:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, even as a parent with young kids myself, I say ask for a different table! I have moved BECAUSE of the example the other kids were having on mine own.
2006-09-29 12:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by hilltopper_lady 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is annoying no matter what price it is costing you. Speak to the waiter or waitress and ask to be moved to another table. You can talk to the manager about it, if it happens often there; or choose another place to eat.
2006-09-29 14:40:52 · answer #9 · answered by hopflower 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i love kids....but i am done raising mine....when i have the chance to go to eat i don't want to be around it anymore....my children went to nice restaurants and it was a great opportunity to teach them about manners and good behavior and bad behavior while dining....i don't know what happened but "some" parents just don't bother anymore.....I HATE IT...when i am being seated...i scan the area quickly and if i see a potential problem....i stop immediately and say no.....sit me somewhere else!!!! good question
2006-09-29 12:15:09 · answer #10 · answered by vampire angel 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My kids never would act like that I wouldn't have it. You treat people the way you want to be treated. That has always been my falsify of life and do I ever stick with it. There have been times that I don't because I get treated badly
2006-09-29 12:17:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋