The female owner of a North Carolina restaurant has put up a new sign on its front door saying, “Screaming children will not be tolerated.”
The restraunteur says she got sick of customers complaining about parents who couldn’t control their kids during meals, treating the restaurant like their personal playground, misbehaving and squawking.
If a kid starts screaming, an employee will ask the parent to please take the child outside.
“We want to attract the type of people that come in knowing they aren’t going to have to sit behind a table with a bunch of screaming children,” the owner said.
Asked for her opinion, one mother said that she had never seen such a sign and that, “You can’t help it if your kids scream.”
The restaurant says it’s brought them more new business than it’s driven away.
Carolina Beach restaurant says “no” to screaming children [WECT] (Thanks to Julie!)
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I would be more likely to go to a restaurant like this. I have little patience for parents that think their kid’s crappy behavior should be shared with everyone evenly.
My uncle used to work for a place that threw all their booster seats out to discourage parents with really young kids from coming in because they were just a constant nightmare.
“You can’t help it if your kids scream”.
That may be true, but you, as a parent, can help it if your kids are ruining other peoples’ meals. I know when I was little and my sister or I acted up in public, we were immediately removed from the location and taken outside and reprimanded.
Here is in a nutshell what all the parents with awful children who do not want to discipline them want. From American Psycho: “My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not wish for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape…”
can we make this an amendment to our constitution?
“You can’t help it if your kids scream.”
maybe, however you can help WHERE they scream by packing up your shit and leaving if your kid is being a complete brat
Removing screaming children is age discrimination. Please remove all screaming people regardless of age.
I’m 100% behind the owner. I think it’s unacceptable that today’s parents think that I should have to put up with their whiny child just because there’s no mac & cheese or hot dogs on the menu.
If you want to bring your young children out to eat that’s fine, but do it at a family shop and remember that you have a duty to remove that child from the environment if they misbehave. If the parents ignore the situation then the restaurant should ask them to leave. Any establishment that doesn’t loses my business.
I walk out of at least one place a month, sometimes shortly after arriving and sometimes most of the way through my meal, because neither the parents or restaurant will do anything about a screaming child.
Uh…yeah, you can help it if your kids scream. I have never had a problem saying, “Your child is interrupting my meal.” Honestly, if you can’t control your children, don’t have them.
good job
This is pathetic and that person should not be in the restaurant business at all. I have 2 kids and I was in the food & bev industry for over 16 yrs and found that the adults are less behaved than the kids. BUT when kids act up, it is just as bothersome to their own parents. If you hate other people’s behavior-don’t go out period. This is age discrimination- against children.
I shouldn’t have to stop going to resteraunts simply because you refuse to properly raise your spawn. It’s YOUR fault that they’re acting out and ruining everyone’s dinner. Learn to discipline your children instead of enforcing your desire to make everyone suffer as you do.
I honestly don’t think that they ask the parents to take the screaming child outside just for one outburst, but more likely if the behavior continues for a couple of minutes, and the parents don’t seem to able/willing to control the child.
I don’t have children, but one of my best friends has 7 kids, and during all of the years that I have known her family, they NEVER scream, whine loudly, or run around. If they tried to exhibit that behavior she quickly reprimanded them by telling them to stop, giving them the evil eye, or taking them outside of the restaurant. She never waited until other diners were glaring at her for the children’s behavior; maybe because she 7 of them, but that’s another story. It is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children proper behavior, and to recognize whether their children should be taken out in public.
I’d go to this restaurant to see how the atmosphere is, and return if the food was really good.
A lot of people (besides the fact he’s cute) tell me that for a 1 year old mine is quite behaved. He puts up a fit going into a high chair but I think at 1 year old (and he likes to see everyone!) I can’t really argue if he is eating while sitting on mom’s lap. A lot of times we are out with his grandpa and grandma and after grandma is done she takes him and feeds him. Now at home, he will sit in the high chair as long as we are both within viewing distance and watching his channel on tv. If one of us is doing something else it’s a no-go. Otherwise than that, he pretty much doesn’t give me or the wife very many problems except when he gets woke up by the neighbors and their hot rods at 9 A.M. in the morning. Again I can’t place blame on a 1 year old when the neighbor’s ’69 dodge charger with hoosier tires on it, and when it’s running it vibrates all the windows and walls on that side of the house. The officer is supposed to talk to them guys later today about it. According to the paper the pediatrician gave us at these months they typically want dad or mom to hold them more. My little boy is just growing up.
Speaking as a toddler myself, I do not think it is fair. I will file a lawsuit if I am kicked out of this establishment because of my whining post- haste.
I started going to restaurants more often once smoking was banned. If there was a screaming kid ban, I’d probably go even more often.
I don’t hate children, but sometimes you just want a quiet meal with your party and not hear someone’s screaming child. Same is true for movie theaters. Leave the baby with a sitter.
Love it, I love kids too but when I go out for a meal I do not want to be seeing crying, complaining children. I do appreciate parents who take their children away when they start to misbehave rather than do that ridiculous ignore and keep eating which is disrespectful to the people around.
Love it, I love kids too but when I go out for a meal I do not want to be seeing crying, complaining children. I do appreciate parents who take their children away when they start to misbehave rather than do that ridiculous ignore and keep eating which is disrespectful to the people around. And yes you can stop your child from screaming, if you can’t you ARE a bad parent.
You know, i thought it was just my town that had poor parenting skills.
From the comments, it seems it seems that i was wrong.
Wow. Quite prevalent.
Awesome. Too bad I don’t live in NC; I’d probably be a regular at that place.
“You can’t help it if your kids scream.”
Imbecile, YOU can’t help it if YOUR kids scream.
I’m thinking of the scene in Casino where security brushes against the guy, sticks him with a cattle prod, walks away and the crowd is none the wiser – I wonder what one of those things goes for?
I love this… I wish there were restaurants where I live that would do this…. But most places are too afraid to get sued or whatever to do it…
Why “The female owner” and not just “The owner”?
I was going to talk about parents actually parenting, but it looks like everyone else has got that angle covered.
Finally!…. but i hate children… j/k…. but seriously.
I remember seeing a sign in a store years ago that said, “Keep your kid on a leash!” Loved it!
If your child is disrupting the meal of others in a restaurant, the only responsible thing to do is to take them outside until they calm down….or leave if they refuse to behave! It’s not my problem that you can’t control your child!!!
My sister and I haven’t fought since we were teenagers, but about eight years ago we almost came to blows (we’re both in our mid/late 30s now) over this very issue. My nephew, who was 3 at the time, was pitching a temper tantrum in a restaurant and clearly annoying everyone around us (including me, his uncle)! She tried to talk to reason with him (great idea…with a 3yr old), but he kept screaming and crying. After another minute or so of his tantrum, I grabbed his butt up, told my sister to sit the *$@# down and shut her own mouth, and I took him outside to the curb until he finished his tantrum. When I walked back in the restaurant, I got several winks and nods from other patrons who appreciated me taking responsibility for the situation, even though it wasn’t my kid! He’s 11 now and a perfect little gentleman in all public situations. =)
I would begin to patronize this restaurant in a heartbeat.
They need signs like this in every restaurant, theatre, and all retail shops. I’ve heard of so many stories about how kids run and act crazy in stores, especially at the walmart near my house, and where my gf works they’re not any better. The kids are out of control, the parents don’t even pay attention to them and so my gf is now fussing at the child to stop misbehaving or to stop what they are doing, next thing you know the mother is actually right there in the same aisle not even watching their child vandalize store property. Its sad when a parent wont take 2 minutes to tell the kid, NO!
This is why they need more signs like this.
Parents do NOT care anymore, they would rather someone else to discipline their child.
If store’s had more signs like this then i think employees might enjoy showing up to work once and awhile.
I’m sure it’s been said already, but…
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Asked for her opinion, one mother said that she had never seen such a sign and that, “You can’t help it if your kids scream.”
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Mother of the year award please.
What an idiot learn how to raise a child
Sure you cant PREVENT a scream without a muzzle. But you sure can HELP the people around you by taking the child outside.
I’ll make sure to take my Autistic son in this weekend then. If they ask us to leave , it will Violate quite a few discrimination laws. He screams because of his disability, not because he is a brat.
The way I see it, I can’t lose.