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Default Kids in restaurants... something to thing about

On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 8:55:43 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-07-26 20:22, Kalmia wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 5:58:13 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> I caught a small portion of a radio show about kids in restaurants. One
> >> women, who seemed to have some expertise on manners and training kids,
> >> suggest that if the place does not have high chairs..... maybe it's a
> >> place you should not be taking small children.

> >
> > So, how can you know a place doesn't supply high chairs

>
> That is easy enough. The people who think they are entitled to take
> their toddler out for fine dining ask for a high chair. Sorry.... we
> don't have a high chair.
>
> > and what's to stop someone from plopping a kid down on a booth bench?

>
> Nothing really, but this reasonable person suggested that if there is no
> high chair it is not a place to take young children.


But how can YOU as a patron know this - do you ask if they have highchairs when you enter the joint? If they don't see you with kids in tow, you might get a strange look.