Heh... nice. Going for snark on the bill and managing to misspell part of your insult? Priceless!

Were they hand-typing the rest of the bill, too? Somehow I think "chilli con carne" and "quasadillas" seem a bit out of place on a receipt.

I hate kids.

Childless 20-somethings are rarely equipped to handle little f***ers.

@Esquire99: Right there with ya. Especially when your niece and nephew are thrust upon you simply because you have nothing planned at the time.

The link for me is just redirecting to the Consumerist article *woop woop*.

But still, yeah, how stupid can you get that you wouldn't -look- at the receipt to see if your nasty note made it on there/was really obvious and would clearly be seen before leaving?

And I mean, that's on top of the stupid you already earned for being such a prick.

Is this a new thing, or maybe I've now just noticed all these stories about insults printed on receipts?

Why is one of the pictures (the one on the main page) unblurred, and the one in the article is blurred... Either way they're both unreadable, but still.

I just double-checked the article and the name of the family who received this receipt was "Cartin". The "F***ers" were at the next table.

@Thassodar: Hate on the parents for that. That's rude.

@Esquire99: I hate humans.

@Esquire99: They're not too bad if slow-cooked with a good brine marinade to soften the tough parts.

@Wombatish: Haha true.

Also, the link probably tried to do some seo jujitsu, and ended up faceplanting :P

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

And the wittle toddler is soooo schweeeet! How could any call it rude names :'(

Yes, I bet it was just "a little tantrum."

Little F***er was probably one of the nicer things the other customers were thinking about the family.

Take your kid outside. Or better yet, get a sitter.
If your kid can't handle restaurants then eat at home until they're old enough to.

The didn't need to put a note on the receipt, the spit in their food should have been quite enough.

@Esquire99: Remember, you were once a kid. At at least one point, probably a Little F***er. I know I was.

@Esquire99: I tend to agree, but we must realize that bad parenting is the result of poorly behaved children.

I've said it before (in the smacking story similar to this) that I understand why people get fed up with children and do what they do. Granted there's no excuse for this type of behavior, but when children are disrespectful, don't listen, yell, throw tantrums, and bug other people, it's really no wonder.

Lately I'm totally in favor of the old phrase: "Children should be seen and not heard."

While it's true that this is a terrible breach and someone probably will (and definitely should) lose their job over this, I have to say...one thing I truly hate is taking a date to a "nice" restaurant and being forced to listen to someone's ill-behaved little brats throwing a temper tantrum or running around the dining room making noise. If I go to a family-style place or a fast-food joint? Sure, that has to be expected. But if I take someone to a nice fine-dining restaurant and plunk down big money for a nice steak and some good wine, I should be able to enjoy a peaceful and intimate atmosphere. Take your hell-spawn to the Golden Corral. Leave the fancy places for those of us who know how to operate a condom.

So the "littell fu**er" had the last laugh. Honestly I hate parents who can't control their kids but insulting the customer openly in the form of name-calling certainly isn't professional.

Both parties are at fault.

@Cupajo: Somehow I don't believe "Cactus Joe's" is a fine-dining establishment in the least.

@Cupajo: Though you hit the nail on the head otherwise!

@Cupajo:

I can't imagine a place called "Cactus Joe's" being a "fancy" restaurant...

@zacox: Oh, I would imagine not. I was speaking generally.

Truth hurts sometimes. But not the way to get repeat business.

Remember cheese?

@GuinevereRucker: i think you might have that backwards - bad parenting is the cause of poorly behaved children... poorly behaved children are the result of bad parenting

@TCinIowa:

I don't agree with the spit on the food part but I agree with everything else you said. When I go out to a restaurant and spend my hard earned money the last thing I want to have to listen to is some baby screaming like an air raid siren. Either control your kid or get a sitter and stop bringing him to restaurants and movie theaters.

@TCinIowa:

Stupid yuppie and hipster parents don't want to bruise their children's indigo aura by insisting they behave in public...

@TCinIowa:

"She wanted to get up and walk around but we wouldn't let her so she had a little tantrum."

That's when the parent needs to take the child out of the restaurant and let her walk around OUTSIDE. Letting her have a tantrum in front of everyone is not the solution.

@TCinIowa: The article states that they were sitting in a designated "kids' zone," so I think your outrage is misplaced. If you go to a restaurant with a kids' zone, it's pretty likely there will be kids.

They didn't say how long the food actually took, only that their kid threw a tantrum after 20 minutes. On one hand, I have experienced awful service that took sometimes 45 minutes to an hour to get food. On the other hand, and I don't know how long the OP actually waited, but I think a kid should be capable of waiting 20 minutes for food in a restaurant.

And yes, I have kids. Three of them. 20 minutes isn't too long unless you have an infant, in which case you should have some snacks or food for the baby while you wait.

Now on the other hand, when restaurants take 45-60 minutes to get you your food, I have no sympathy for them, and their patrons child hatred should be directed at management, not the parents.

@HogwartsAlum: Why waste time/emotion on hate? When a relative dumped his small children off on me when I was a teenager, I promptly drove them to the supermarket and bought them each a bag of Pixie Stix.

Kids were happy. I was amused. Relative learned I was not what they wanted in a babysitter.

In college, I worked at as a commissioned salesman at an electronics/appliances retailer (which has since gone bankrupt). I had a customer who bought some big-ticket item which we didn't have in stock, so I had to order it. When the customer came to pick it up, I wasn't working so another salesman printed a new receipt for the husband and wife to pick up the item, which had arrived. In our system, we could insert notes and a note printed on this couple's receipt saying "Wife is a bitch!" lolz. The system, thankfully, timestamps when notes are inserted, and I wasn't working the day that the transaction was notated. I don't know how the situation finally resolved, but I can only imagine it was not a good one.

Maybe the server's name is Littell. Maybe it was a thank you note. And maybe the server just forgot the comma. As in, "Thankyou, Littlell F***er." I mean, we really are hearing only one side of the story here.

The person responsible just applied at Fuddruckers.

There are bad customers all the time and I do not fault the workers for taking out their frustrations on these annoying customers.
No one wants to work in a restaraunt. They do because they need money. This worker should not have been fired and this family should have sucked it up. They could not control their kid and they should not expect people to have to just deal with their uncontrollable child.
Next time these parents want to take their uncontrollable child out for food they should watch the movie Waiting.

I hope they just told the woman they fired the server to make her happy. And in reality, didn't fire anyone.

Because the only offense was the customer finding out about it. You know everyone was thinking it. The truth hurts, and why should I fire a good employee over your kid, who was the problem?

@GuinevereRucker: That's kind of how I feel about most adults. At least a two-year-old has an excuse for acting up.

@mamalicious: Maybe if the restaurant hadn't waited to get their food until the sun cooled, the kid would have been a little quieter?

This was very wrong, but I bet all the employees and other customers agreed.

Maybe she WAS a little fu*ker. Instead of being so insulted, maybe the parents should thik about taking their kid outside during a tantrum so that everyone else won't have to listen to that crap. And YES, I have a kid. She's 7. And I actually think about other people's comfort.

It wasn't right, but she probably gets sick of all of the selfish, inconsiderate parents.

People don't go to resturaunts to listen to kids cry.

@Esquire99: Agreed, I personally can't stand it when kids misbehave. Especially when I'm trying to work and their parents don't seem to give a damn to stop their kid from screaming.

Families with littell f***ers should eat at Chucky Jesus and not ruin it for the rest of us.

"The employee responsible has been fired."

Appropriate.

What about the offending parents & child?

The devil's spawn is free to go about making life a living hell for every other person the parents and child come into contact.

@varro: I always think of my FIL when people talk about indigo kids. He always talks about how the new spirits on earth are different-rofl. They are very different, their parents think that they know better than the people who have been raising kids in the gazillion generations before them--like somehow they figured something out that no one ever thought of. Mine is 7 and we are raising her the old fashioned way. She has nver had a resturaunt tantrum, ever.

@meltingcube: Thirded.

Awhile back, as I was shopping for groceries, a random kid of about 7 or 8 runs face first into the front of my cart (of course he was looking behind him for whatever equally unsupervised sibling was chasing him). The cart easily won that battle, and as the kid is crying on the ground and I'm part-laughing/part-concerned/part-wondering what to do, his mother comes running over. She hysterically accuses me of intentionally running into her child. I "politely" told her that wasn't the case, but also told her that (1) I would have no regrets about intentionally doing it in the future, and (2) she completely deserves to have her kids run over if she's too incompetent to watch them.

I really have a sister named Littell, and yes she hates her name. LOL

I find it fascinating sometimes to listen to all the bitching about little kids, awful parenting and self-absorbed parents. It's like listening people bitch about bad driver. Everyone thinks most people suck at driving, while they consider themselves to be above-average.

Where exactly do you think the unending hosts of ill-mannered, poorly-raised children ended up? You've met the enemy; it is you.

The real question here is exactly what was the nature of the "little tantrum" the OP referred to. As a rule, the parents of a child are not good at discerning what constitutes "little" misbehavior by their tykes.

Too many times I see gross misbehavior, which my own parents would never have accepted in me, tolerated, and even smiled at, by their parents. They appear either to think their screaming, running around, and/or running into people is funny, or that it should be tolerated because "it's just kids having fun."

Well, it's NOT acceptable, and it SHOULD NOT be tolerated ... not in children, and not in anyone else. Too many children are being raised with far too little discipline, these days. If it takes an inappropriate remark embedded on a receipt to make you aware of it, well ... take the lesson to heart, and if you have to, leave the screaming kneebiter at home next time.

Am I being harsh? Maybe, but there are too many places I cannot go because of the loud, obnoxious, unruly children I find there. Enough is enough already.

This seems to be the consensus of the people here:

"OMG, young children should always be well behaved and never, ever, ever bother me because I pay money to get my food (the implication here being that the parents aren't spending money to get their food). Oh, and when I was a child I was perfect and don't forget I have to validate my argument by pointing out that I, too, have a child."

Grow. Up. NO, repeat, NO child acts perfect all the time. If you go out in public, be prepared to deal with society or stay the fuck home.

Further, if the food took too long to get to them then the establishment was at fault for the wait, not the child and not the parents.