Absolutely agree to this fee. If im going out for dinner, paying a lot of money for a meal, the last thing anyone wants is have to put up with someone else's brats. If you can parent your children, its not everyone else's fault. Leave them home!

I have experienced a night out ruined by out of control unsupervised minors. Not fun.

Would eat here in a heartbeat because of that surcharge. Nothing worse than parents with brats ruining a meal.

Parents need to be parents. My sister and I never misbehaved in public. My dad would have spanked us just that fear kept us in line. Some parents simply don't parent or explain to their kids what's acceptable and what's not. Most Kids can follow rules. If they have autism or are on the spectrum they are still capable of learning a lot over time.

The ones “not down for this” are the ones that need to keep their children out of restaurants. (correction: THAT WE NEED to keep out of restaurants)

I have had other people’s children climb up in my booth, and a few whose kids reach into my plate and take what they want. I’m not talking fast food but fine dining restaurants. I expect parents to tech their kids manners and control them!

If your children can’t or won’t behave in public it’s the parents fault. They should be charged the same as the total bill amount. I was one of 9 children born in less than 10 years, we respected our parents and others when we were out. I always was disgusted with the behavior of children and their parents that seemed oblivious to their disturbances to other diners or in other situations. If your child missed their nap don’t go, if you can’t control your child you have NO business taking them out in public. You are a selfish narcissist subjecting others to unpleasant situations and should be refused if you attempt to enter again.

I agree. In the past 10 years I saw a woman change her baby's diaper on top of the table in a restaurant, another time I saw a teen girl texting, painting her toenails at a table, parents did nothing. Raised my kids in the 80's, I felt there were certain restaurants you dont take your kids to out of consideration for others that planned a quiet dinner out. There are restaurants better suited for taking kids but regardless, parents must teach children of all ages manners and consideration for others. If they are not feeling well or sleepy, be a responsible adult and parent instead of an entitled @$$hole. Just because YOU want a margarita, stay home, dont take your kids out in public!!

I agree. You're accountable for raising your kid. If they act out of hand, you should be charged if you don't talk with them, and convince them to act appropriately. If the kid is well mannered, no charge. People would only be upset with this charge if they raised monsters, and don't want to be held accountable for their shitty parenting.

Barometer for bad behavior??? You know those things unless you are an absentee parents or a spoiled brat while growing up or simply ignore and tolerate bad behavior just to avoid embarrassment and maintain your sanity .

Have you ever waited tables with sizzling hot food & children are running up & down the aisle. Trying not to burn yourself let alone the child & other patrons. Children running up to random tables and grabbing food. Children just throwing food all over the place and on the floor 🤦‍♀️ jumping up & down on the tables or trying to jump to next table with other patrons and thier food on the table. I understand kid's will be kid's. But that's all personal stuff I have had to deal with while trying to wait tables. Not OK

I've waited tables for 30 years....most kids run, scream,crawl all over,and the parents for some reason think the kids are invisible. It's not cute..sooo.i dont disagree. It's definitely making a statement..they definitely have some brass...makes people look up and say hey..where's my kid .my kids not like that...when actually they are and you got called out..hopefully good will come out of it in the end...we all just want to enjoy our restaurant experience...

Excellent! Its about time.

Don't bring your rowdy kids to a restaurant. I'd like to eat my food in peace and quiet. If these kids were screaming and running around... then charge them.

Question? What do you think should happen when kids are being unruly at a restaurant and parents are in denial about their behavior?

What’s the restaurant I want to go 😊 I never ever took my children or grandkids to a restaurant after 5 pm. To me That’s adult date and dinner time. I left any restaurant if my kids started acting up and took our food to go. You know what is misbehaving kids and if you don’t then you deserve a fee.

Amazing how so many parents are blind to the behaviour of their "little angels"

We all know what kind of kids they are talking about. The screamers, the loud, the rude, the running loose .....

If I’m at a restaurant, I don’t feel like hearing loud unruly kids while I’m eating my damn food. Let’s stop acting like we don’t know what unruly kids look like in a restaurant. We’ve all seen it. Parents need to have more discernment about their children. You know how your kids act at home, so you know how they’ll behave in a restaurant. If you don’t want your kids to be scrutinize, start disciplining them.

The other 2 ladies... in the bulk of the clip. if you have to ask what bad parenting is.. you probably are one.. these 2 ladies with their huff and puff are probably examples of bad parenting... however working in foodservice for 25+ years all for the charge 100%...

I had an incident last weekend. I decided to take my two children out for dinner and a lady was just constantly walking up in their faces, saying how handsome they are and the oldest knows the rule: when I look at him he must move. He didn't and the lady was constantly going up in their face and I took them outside and had a chat and called my friend and asked her if I should leave or stay and she had a chat with my oldest and we came up with a plan and went right back in shortly after. Then they all hold my hand and never move. Having someone who is more strict than you can help. It works for me

I agree with this. I new to not act up in a restauraunt. Ive been to a few restauraunts and had to deal with other ppls children. I had one run up and knock my drink over in my plate and thought it was funny. Ruined my whole meal. So i agree with this.

As a Restaurant Manager, I make MY presence KNOWN to everyone who comes in our Front Doors. The Families KNOW that THIS SISTA RUNS THIS SHOW! I do it lovingly and professionally ❤. ALOT of the Families here in the beautiful PACIFIC NW, have never seen a GORGEOUS BLACK WOMAN, WITH A STRONG VOICE BE A MANAGER AND THEY LOVE ME! So when I walk around the Restaurant, talking with Guests, THEIR children, when ACTING UP....SHUTTER AND SHUT DOWN!! Yup...CHARGE THEM IF HAVE TO!

The fact that they think it's fine for kids to not be seated, and run around in a restaurant without disturbing others tells us all we need to know. You all aren't parenting. It's not okay to let tablets, school teachers, and TikTok raise your children. You're their teacher and nurturer, they should be respectful and seated in public. Tell them no hitting and no yelling at each other, because it (along with tantrums and back talking) has become very common. Do better and there wouldn't be a trend of no children under a certain age allowed virtually everywhere. I don't agree with this trend but I understand it, children are becoming very unruly and disruptive.

I agree with the restaurant!!!! Sometimes parents leave the restaurant and it looks like a hog slop mess!!! Why not clean up the mess YOUR children made? If the restaurant has to clean off the table n the floor then yes CHARGE!!! Teach your children how to eat when out, or leave them home!! I never knew what an issue this was until my husband and I will get our bill and it would say "paid". The staff was so amazed at how three children could eat and not leave the floor nasty that our dinner was often the compliments of the restaurant that we visited. Teach them to behave!! CHARGE and if they don't come back... celebrate🎉

Can we apply this fee on Airlines

Awesome 👍👍👍

Ok people are getting crazy. This is really stupid.

I think that the "just don't have children at your restaurant" comment is ridiculous. People are going to say anything...kid is only looking at tablet etc...yeah right!

1:17 “it’s giving scam” I’d feel scammed to going out on a date and having someone’s semen spawn wilding out beside me with no consequence

Don’t bring your kids to fancy places if you can’t have control of them

This is so disrespectful to the costumers with kids because the fee should be higher than $50 🤦‍♂️

I agree with the restaurant.

The woman anchor is wrong. Some children DO learn manners and how to act in public. Those kids and families should be allowed to eat there if they choose to. You do exactly what this restaurant is doing and saying, if your children do not know how to act in public then we are going to charge you an extra fee. This creates one of two scenarios, they stop going and thus other patrons do not have to put up with bratty kids or you teach your children how to behave in public. The anchor woman's solution is akin to a few bad apples. Don't punish everyone, punish those who are poor parents.

If you have children who don't behave in a because they're too young. Well, then, order, take out if that's your favorite place and take it home. But you don't want to disturb everybody else.. Who left their children home with the babysitter

I waitress at Applebee’s in the rain Ohio and we had people not watching their children treating it like Danny’s. One group of parents put they’re kids in the booth behind of them so they took up somebody’s tips so they’re taking up two tables. And their children colored all over the wall smeared food everywhere it was so disgusting. we had to get out vacuums sanitizer and we had to basically scrub the two booths down. In the middle of a restaurant where it was policy that we were To minimize vacuums running and things like that because people come there to get away and have a good time and enjoy adult life. This happened many times after 7 o’clock at night. After a while the police had to start coming in and making sure everything was peaceful. There were five of us kids in my family growing up and when we went to a restaurant no matter what type of restaurant it was we had to clean up and pick up after ourselves. And we had to have our best manners being practiced. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it cost extra work on somebody else who makes four dollars an hour or less is total disrespect

Well done Toccoa , don’t need brat kids ruining other diners experience . Great Restaurant

The thing is... there needs to be some guidelines for workers though. Kids can be loud, and restless. But if they throw food, scream, and run amock are differently. Should just ban kids from the place even if it's just for certain hours of the day. What would stop the waitress from adding the fee just from getting back at a bad tip? I'm for it but there's no way the rules can be applied properly. Because there are no rules set by the restaurant and everyone parents different, including people that don't have kids and have a viewpoint. My daughter being wiggly in her seat, and giggling or laughing loudly shouldn't be charged extra for being a kid. So will loud obnoxious adult groups be charged extra too?

Good. I’m 72 & we were taught respect & behavior. A meal out is a treat. Rare for many. Who wants table set up in the middle of a theme park??

Is the manager's name Basil Fawlty by any chance?

I’m okay with this fee. Clearly the one lady hasn’t worked service

1/The owner portrays his place as 'fancy'. it's NOT fancy. It's the type of place where families with little kids go.2/The '$$$' looks like a joke. Put up a price. You didn't put '$$$' for the meals. ..3/A party of TWENTY-ONE drops a LOT of money. Wanna make sure they never come back?

Thinking back to when my son was a child, my wife and I mostly went to kid friendly places such as In-N-Out, Chuck-E-Cheese, Dave & Buster's and Souplantation when we took our son out with us. If my wife and I were going anywhere else, we usually took our son to my parents so that she and I could have a date night.

3words... Small Claims Court. This restaurant wouldn't stand a chance enforcing this 'fee'. It's too subjective to put a quantitative dollar amount on. Even if they based their fee on other patron's complaints this policy is still too subjective. A few times losing in court and having to pay court fees will end this restaurants bad parenting fee pretty quick.

Nothing makes me more upset when you're out to eat and kids are running all over or fighting or crying. Food all over the floor. It just ruins the entire meal. If your kids can't behave get a sitter and leave them home!!

My kid knew how to behave… I’m not having a child out with me that can’t handle behaving in public!!!

This is a good one

Easy to see who has awful children in these interviews. People who feel that they have a right to allow their children to disturb others

I agree w the fee. Folks always let their kids show out

Good

Teach your kids what is acceptable public behaviors at home and more likely than not, you won’t be embarrassed by your kids in public. Just a thought🤔🧐

I feel all this bad behavior is from gentle parenting. They freaking give kids gold stars just for showing up to school meanwhile I have perfect attendance at work it just means I’m reliable 😂 no wonder why kids can’t handle when they are being punished

So are they going to give a super discount for terrible service or incorrect orders or the food just not being good what about when the restrooms are not cleaned properly if this charge is going to be implemented it needs to be implemented fairly and not to just anyone who comes in with small children

Good for the Restaurant owners! I have had more than one meal ruined by out of control kids. If a parent has so little influence on their children that the children are in control, then they should stay at home and not burden others with controlling their children. And News channel people are you really lame enough to think that all of those bad reviews are accurate? Shame on you if you are and shame on anybody that thinks that it is acceptable to have screaming out of control kids running around a restaurant. If parents can not control their off spring then stay home. I do not want to listen to your screaming out of control kids!

All of these people complaining about this policy...tell me you're a permissive parent without telling me you're a permissive parent.

But I do see that they’re trying to get money and rip people off in one aspect. Honestly coloring on the wall and doing other things and ripping down drapes and tearing up plants to me would be to just charge that parent

👍🏻👏👍🏻👏👍🏻👏👍🏻 TOP MAN, If I lived in the states I'd eat there.

Some restaurants, and a mean a few, their policy is no children after a certain time.

america 🤣

Only Georgia Republican parents would complain as it's ripped off by the Republican owners... LOL

I'm glad you didn't name the restaurant; no free publicity for them!!! How are you going to penalize someone for their children sitting quietly watching a tablet or a mom quietly rocking her baby to sleep?!!! The owners sound like suspicious a-holes to me!

What about a fee to the customer for bad waiters & waitresses.😂

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"If they're getting up and running around, do not upset the other diners" That right there ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect example of bad parenting. How about you teach the kids not to get up and run around, period. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ Shoutout to this restaurant! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

So then there had better be a fee for ADULTS who can't keep their noise and raucousness and inappropriate humor in their own earshot, instead of everyone being subject to THEIR bad behavior. If there is a fee for kids being disruptive, then it is only appropriate for that fee to be instilled against adults being disruptive too. Otherwise it is age discrimination.

No one wants to parent their kid when they misbehave in public. They pretend that screaming nonstop, throwing food and hitting strangers is normal. If they did that at home, their little behinds would be stinging.

I want to make sure I understand. Owner of restaurant watches unruly children yet waits until *AFTER* the meal to slap them with a charge? Why would they not give one warning to the parents or they will be asked to leave? The other diners are still subjected to all the noise and disruption.

What about children with autism? If they're having a meltdown?? They can't control that or help with that so what then?!

Even if you discipline your kids they will sometimes throw a tantrum. And sometimes ignoring a tantrum is the most effective way to make it stop.

Fine as long as they're OK with a negative tip, Lol

I see GOING OUT OF BUISNESS SIGNS

WARNING!! DO NOT TAKE ANY KIDS TO THIS RESTAURANT!! The fine is too subjective. The grumpy owner doesn’t like kids. He fined one family when the kids were on tablets waiting for food. I’d pay it, then get my credit card company to dispute, and remove the fee, and I’d win. There’s no way the owner can prove his claim when kids are sitting nicely at a table, then run around outside. Put up signs outside if u don’t want the kids to play outside, even supervised. No, no way I would pay the ridiculous fee. I know some parents are irresponsible, but there needs to be a better way. Like parents need to videotape the family so u have evidence of no misbehavior. Lol.

Lol they’d just gave out the restaurant Wi-Fi network and passwords…watch them get hacked 😂