Restaurant gives discount for 'well-behaved' kids
A couple with 3 young children were surprised when an upscale eatery knocked $4 from their bill for their good manners.
As a parent, it's always rewarding when someone compliments your child's good manners. But an upscale restaurant took that one step further when it shaved $4 from a family's bill for "well-behaved kids."
That happened when Laura King and her husband took their three children to eat at the Kingston, Wash., restaurant Sogno di Vino, which serves wood-fired pizza and Italian dishes such as eggplant rollatini.
"They were just being their normal selves,” King told Today.com of her children. "Our server came to our table and just really thanked us for having exceptionally behaved children.”
When the bill came, she noted that the restaurant had applied a $4 discount for "well-behaved kids."
But some people are finding that problematic. After the photo of the receipt was posted on the social-media site Reddit, some users chimed in with complaints.
"You shouldn't get rewarded for displaying common decency and good manners in society. It's like over complimenting kids for merely graduating high school," one user wrote.
Another asked if restaurants should charge $4 for poorly behaved kids.
As the restaurant's owner, Rob Scott, tells it, he was prompted to give his first-ever "well-behaved kids" discount by the family's behavior, although he said he regularly gives free desserts to customers with good kids. Most families don't earn complimentary sweets, he told Today.com.
"So we go to the parents and say, 'I'm sorry but we really need little Johnny to sit down and not run around and yell and scream. . . because he’s bothering some of the patrons.' And parents will take an attitude to the point where we’re almost afraid to say something," he said.
King's children were polite, said "please" and "thank you" and remained seated during the meal, he added.
On her blog, King offered some advice to other parents: Get your kids used to eating at restaurants by taking them out a couple times a month, and encourage your children to talk with you as adults.
"We don’t expect handouts for acting respectful of the folks who bring us our food. But it certainly makes you feel good when someone else notices your kids in a positive light," she wrote.
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as little as ten years ago, people would DRESS UP and go out to eat about twice a month, and their kids would SIT AT THE TABLE and eat with their parents.
Today - not so much. Jogging suits in nice restaurants; cellphone yelling; kids running around and the parents CLUELESSLY watching them....
and as the article quoted, if you even TRY to get these horrible parents to WATCH THEIR KIDS, well.......it's ATTITUDE TIME (and they go on yelp or trip advisor and LIE; or they STIFF the Server; or go out and damage the rep of the restaurant by telling their friends THEY WERE NOT AT FAULT!
wake up, AMERICA, and STOP being RUDE to Servers and Bartenders; STOP complaining about your food WITHOUT EVEN TASTING IT; STOP giving out the VERBAL TIPS; and PRETEND that you have some CLASS and TASTE.
you are NOT a foodie; you are NOT a king or queen; you are NOT above the Staff!
savvy diners don't even go out to dinner on weekends - it's AMATEUR HOUR on Fridays and Saturdays.....REAL diners go out during the week, and leave the weekends to the POSERS and the ANTI-PARENTS and the NON-TIPPERS (that's you, LADIES and MINORITIES!!!!)
and don't EVER complain about the food at mcdonalds - you stuff your face for $5 and you have a complaint at the WORST restaurant in the world?
That Family in "real life" was nothing like what is pictured....In the Article.
Many families have well mannered children...
If they don't, many times it's the Parents that are very "ill mannered" also..
Our children, especially our "first born" were exceptional in restaurants most times..
Our Grandchildren and GGkids, others were/are so-so..
It's a sad situation when restaurant owners cannot speak to the parents of disruptive children without the parents escalating the matter. Perhaps restaurants should have ‘adult only’ dining sections, padded and sound proofed, as it seems no matter the quality of restaurant or the price of the meal wild children are generally ignored by their checked out parents and management. Although we have all but quit dinning out, when we do dine with well behaved kids, we make it a practice of thanking their parents.
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