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Post by tduby1 on Jul 22, 2015 0:41:11 GMT
The owner shouldn't have yelled. The owner shouldn't have had to yell. This! As a patron, listening to a child cry and cry and cry would be uncomfortable. Listening to a business owner scream at that child- from 5 feet away or in her face, would be even MORE uncomfortable. I'm not buying she was concerned for the comfort of her other patrons. Her nerves were jangled and she lost her temper. She was concerned about her own comfort. As were the parents.
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Post by pierkiss on Jul 22, 2015 0:42:37 GMT
I think all parties involved handled it poorly.
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Post by shescrafty on Jul 22, 2015 0:46:42 GMT
They were on vacation. On vacation. Not home. I'm glad to hear that you never inflicted any listeners to melt downs by your kids on vacation, but I will admit we have struggled occasionally with this. While we wouldn't sit there for 40 minutes with crying, I don't know one parent, other than you, that walks out of a restaurant when one of your kids makes a peep when you are all tired and out of your element on vacation. The parents should have done more to quiet the child or remove her, but they certainly didn't deserve the lunatic rage of the diner owner who doesn't want to serve what is on her menu followed by yelling and then obscenities on Facebook. I am not sad for the owner at all - she isn't sad about her behavior, why should you be sad about the natural consequences? Less than two weeks after we adopted our DD we went to the beach (a vacation we already had planned before we knew when she would arrive). The second night we went to a restaurant and our then 8month old DD had been asleep and woke up and was fussy/crying. We immediately got up and took her outside and walked her around and took turns eating. Our friends kept telling us to come in with her, but we felt it was important for her to not bother others because most likely they were on vacation as well. when our son was 3 we went to Sesame Place and spent the night at a hotel. He fell asleep on the way back to the hotel and when he woke up he was Ina weird disoriented funk and was loudly screaming crying. It was about 6pm. We took him out to the car and sat with him until he could get calmed down. We could have stayed in the hotel room since it was not even dark yet-but what if the people in the room next to us had just gotten their kid to rest or they just did not want to hear a kid scream? My kids very infrequently had tantrums, but went they did it was dealt with quickly even if we were on vacation.
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Jul 22, 2015 0:49:05 GMT
Without a doubt there was a better way of handling this. That said, if I were a patron that was subjected to 45 minutes of this I would have given the waitress a standing O.
This happens more and more in church. We have a children's crying room, a chapel that is fully enclosed with a glass wall facing the alter and a narthex in our church to take a child to calm down but some people are so self absorbed they think it's ok for their screaming snowflake to carry on during the mass.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 0:59:36 GMT
well, yeah, I think they're bad parents. I thought that was pretty much a given. I'm not even sure why THREE pancakes came up in the first place, but I would have just ordered "pancakes." If two arrived and my child started to throw a fit because there were only two, she'd learn really quick that two is better than none. Her butt would be outside throwing a fit in the car or on the sidewalk in the rain. She could have her cold pancakes later when we got back to the hotel room. Yikes. Is that you, Sanctimommy?
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Post by bostonmama on Jul 22, 2015 1:15:39 GMT
I guess diners and other restaurants now have to post signs that say "please remove your child if your child can't be controlled, cries, screams or disrupts others in anyway. Yes, this means you" because parents obviously Cannot be expected to be aware of the need to do this and therefore they must be told The parents who would need that sign would likely be oblivious to it.
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Post by peatlejuice on Jul 22, 2015 1:24:29 GMT
1. I feel sorry for every teacher, scout leader, etc., that will ever have that child in their group, because they will have deal with those parents.
2. The diner owner lost her shit on Facebook. Holy overreaction, batman. I freely admit to being that person who questions people's parenting skills (to their face, even), but that response was uncalled for.
TL;DR - I think the screaming toddler may well have been the best behaved individual in this story.
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Post by lurkingsince2001 on Jul 22, 2015 1:25:11 GMT
Somehow I think you might be being overly optimistic or generous with the parents' response to a quiet chat. I imagine they still would have gone online and tweeted and yelped and stirred up a hub bub. I see it all the time online: people huffy because their special snowflake was called on their bs and their parenting skills questioned much to their embarrassment. There was a particularly brutal one on Yahoo Parenting a few weeks ago about a woman not taking her kid out of a dark movie theater and expecting everyone to just suck it up and being hurt when someone told her to remove the kid and then her trying to fall back on the "my kid is special and how dare you call me on it" defense. If they are the type to make a stink, which it kinda looks like, then they are gonna make a stink whether you call them out across a room or in their faces quietly. If they aren't the type to make a stink or get something out of it, even if only pats on the back, they wouldn't be talking to anybody about it and it would be a none story. And, honestly, no one should have needed to say a word in the first place. 5 minutes, 45 minutes, whatever, they should have already been gone of their own volition. Did the owner handle it right? Probably not, but she shouldn't have had to handle it at all. If there was the slightest bit of an angry peep outta one of my kids, we were gone. We believe that we didn't have the right to bother others with the grating cries of an upset baby. We ate out alot back then and it was seldom an issue. My oldest makes happy humming sounds when the food is particularly delicious and I've been know to apologize for those, even if they weren't obviously bothering anyone. Unless a history of bizarre or aggressive behavior and poor service come out on the owner, I think it's sad that her livelihood could be hurt because of a customer that was (in my opinion) rude first. She may well have just been looking out for the other paying customers. I've heard that child-free restaurants are becoming a thing, maybe she'd be better off opening one of those. They were on vacation. On vacation. Not home. I'm glad to hear that you never inflicted any listeners to melt downs by your kids on vacation, but I will admit we have struggled occasionally with this. While we wouldn't sit there for 40 minutes with crying, I don't know one parent, other than you, that walks out of a restaurant when one of your kids makes a peep when you are all tired and out of your element on vacation. The parents should have done more to quiet the child or remove her, but they certainly didn't deserve the lunatic rage of the diner owner who doesn't want to serve what is on her menu followed by yelling and then obscenities on Facebook. I am not sad for the owner at all - she isn't sad about her behavior, why should you be sad about the natural consequences? oh, come on. The woman was bitching because the people ordered something that is on the actual menu. She was looking for trouble and continued to look for trouble on her Facebook afterwards. No matter how crappy and undeserving the parents may be, I still wouldn't set a foot in this woman's restaurant. I have vacationed all over the country and driven across continents with my kids. That's not an excuse. Get back in the car, on the bus, take a walk back and forth under the awning in front, whatever. We once hoofed it all the way from Monticello back to town when my kid was scared by an overly friendly stranger and angry tour guide instead of even trying to ride back on the tour bus because it wouldn't have been fair to the other tourists. And I'm not saying the woman isn't a lunatic, although I'm certain we've all had some less than stellar moments dealing with our own kids that we'd like to not be judged on or our careers impacted over. Perhaps she shouldn't even be dealing with the public at all, especially if it takes forever to get people served. (Sidenote: some of the worst service I've ever gotten in my life was in Maine. Yet I didn't play the social media game or even review the restaurant. Because that's the kind of person that I am. I was merely commenting that in both their cases, their actions say a lot about who they are.) I still believe that people who are the type to gripe to social media, the kind who don't remove their bratty-acting child, probably wouldn't live up to the optimistic view of yours that they would've handled it better if quietly confronted. If they were polite enough that that would've worked, then they would've already left and it wouldn't have happened in the first place. I am speaking to the larger issue here of rude, entitled parents with their "special princes and princesses" who expect the rest of us to suck it up and deal. It sounds like the owner (who may have only been acting on what others were thinking of saying) decided to give as good as she got. Two wrongs don't make a right, but maybe it's the parents turn to suck it up and deal. FTR, I've stopped eating at far more of our regular restaurants because of rude patrons who can't figure when to get out (and the PTB letting it slide) than I have for the owner's being jerks. Maybe she was trying to keep some of her regulars. Maybe she has migraines, maybe it doesn't matter. Nothing this woman does is ever going to sit right with some of us and nothing the parents do is ever going to make them look any better either.
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Post by bostonmama on Jul 22, 2015 1:27:29 GMT
TL;DR - I think the screaming toddler may well have been the best behaved individual in this story. The toddler acted exactly how one would/should expect an almost-2 year old to act: hungry, fussy, impatient. The expectations should be age-appropriate. The adults certainly did not act age-appropriate!
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Post by MizIndependent on Jul 22, 2015 1:35:35 GMT
And isn't that such an excellent lesson to teach a toddler- you get everything you ask for, when you ask for it. Okay, you tell that to peas on this thread who have said that the parents should have done more in the moment in the restaurant to avoid and mitigate a meltdown. Can't win either way - either the parents are bad for ignoring the child's crying and not doing enough to prevent or stop it, or bad for doing things that they think will avoid a meltdown in the moment because they are away from home, hungry, and need to eat somewhere, because it might teach a bad lesson... I will go ahead and nominate myself for RefuPeas Worst Parent of The Year award right now, because I, in that moment, would probably do whatever I thought it would take to eat a meal with minimal meltdown. I really stink as a parent, especially on vacation. I would have (and have done) left. Placating sometimes works but teaches an awful lesson. Leaving works every. single. time.
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Post by darkangel090260 on Jul 22, 2015 1:56:48 GMT
TL;DR - I think the screaming toddler may well have been the best behaved individual in this story. The toddler acted exactly how one would/should expect an almost-2 year old to act: hungry, fussy, impatient. The expectations should be age-appropriate. The adults certainly did not act age-appropriate! There is now way that a almost 2 year should behave like that. If you teach the how to behave from birth they should have a basic understand by this age. I have a 25 month old and there is no way in earth he would try that. He know if he start being a brat it's ok we are going home and we do just that. Parents need to do there job and be the parents. just like when we are shopping all i have to say is "do we need to go to the restroom and have a chat" even my older ones know what that means.
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Post by maryland on Jul 22, 2015 2:02:57 GMT
Am I the only one surprised that one or more of the other customers didn't say something to the parents long before the owner had to step in? I'll bet there was a whole lotta stink-eye being given. 1. The number of pancakes shouldn't be an issue. I'm giggling at the analysis of that, but in a good way because hey, that's what we do here. I can see how it pertains to the timeframe though. 2. The pancakes were at the table! Feed the kid! 3. How in the world could even the parents of screaming child have sat there listening to that nonsense for so long??? The only way I can even begin to grasp that is if the kid does this regularly and the parents have learned to tune it out. Which is fine if you're at your own home or whatever but how inconsiderate does one set of parents have to be to not give a crap that MANY other people are having to tolerate this nonsense? RUDE RUDE RUDE. So, it seems like rudeness is something they're pretty comfortable with and someone being rude back to them shouldn't have bothered them. 4. The thing that I see being overlooked in so many of the comments here is that the owner DID attempt to resolve this well before it became a full blown incident. She approached the family with togo boxes and asked them to leave once. They didn't and let the wailing continue. Unreal. 5. FTR: The oner didn't go scream in the child's face. She yelled from the grill area. It should have never gotten to that, but I'm surprised there wasn't a round of applause given by the rest of the patrons. 6. This kind of makes me want to vacation in Maine and go to this diner! 7. I, too, now want some pancakes. I agree! Can I join you? And bring some friends? My mil and sil love Maine, love kids, so they would love to support this diner too.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Jul 22, 2015 2:09:19 GMT
The toddler acted exactly how one would/should expect an almost-2 year old to act: hungry, fussy, impatient. The expectations should be age-appropriate. The adults certainly did not act age-appropriate! There is now way that a almost 2 year should behave like that. If you teach the how to behave from birth they should have a basic understand by this age. I have a 25 month old and there is no way in earth he would try that. He know if he start being a brat it's ok we are going home and we do just that. Parents need to do there job and be the parents. just like when we are shopping all i have to say is "do we need to go to the restroom and have a chat" even my older ones know what that means. Yeah, bullshit. Children with limited ability to communicate their emotions (aka toddlers) resort to crying. It is developmentally normal. It's up to the parents to read their cues and act accordingly.
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 22, 2015 2:19:47 GMT
Seems to me from all accounts the owner wasn't yelling at the kid. She yelled, "that has to stop." Pointing at the kid, but I believe the yelling was directed at the parents. That being the kid.
I would continue to patronize her establishment. She is rough around the edges, but if the food is good, who cares. I deal with younger parents it seems a lot lately. The 1 common thing I see a lot of is them not watching/parenting their children and then they get mad when someone says anything. I just smdh.
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Post by bostonmama on Jul 22, 2015 2:20:42 GMT
There is now way that a almost 2 year should behave like that. If you teach the how to behave from birth they should have a basic understand by this age. I have a 25 month old and there is no way in earth he would try that. He know if he start being a brat it's ok we are going home and we do just that. Parents need to do there job and be the parents. just like when we are shopping all i have to say is "do we need to go to the restroom and have a chat" even my older ones know what that means. Yeah, bullshit. Children with limited ability to communicate their emotions (aka toddlers) resort to crying. It is developmentally normal. It's up to the parents to read their cues and act accordingly. Especially after the long wait this story is alluding to. They've only been on the planet for 2 years -- we can't expect them to act like adults.
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Post by sanctimommy on Jul 22, 2015 2:22:19 GMT
well, yeah, I think they're bad parents. I thought that was pretty much a given. I'm not even sure why THREE pancakes came up in the first place, but I would have just ordered "pancakes." If two arrived and my child started to throw a fit because there were only two, she'd learn really quick that two is better than none. Her butt would be outside throwing a fit in the car or on the sidewalk in the rain. She could have her cold pancakes later when we got back to the hotel room. Yikes. Is that you, Sanctimommy? You rang? Well, I would never condone yelling at a child. We never raise our voices above a Michelle Duggar whisper/speak. I believe in only the most gentle approach of child rearing. What I like to call: placenta led empowerment. However, I have a few questions and comments about these "parents." 1. Do you know how many BPAs and GMOs went into those pancakes? How much GLUTON? 2. why were you not breastfeeding your toddler? Lay her on the table and let her get that snack. That is all she was asking for, I'm sure. 3. If she wasn't hungry, why was she crying? Where were her words? My two year old was speaking in iambic pentameter and asking for my organic kale chips in Chinese by that age. Of course she said please and thank you (unprompted) in sanskrit. 4. When do you plan on teaching her to discuss her feelings? I like to use the Socratic method to gently lead my children to an appropriate space to process their feelings. They know, with just ONE LOOK, that I mean business and they become silent and introspective awaiting my ever gentle lead. Namaste, Sanctimommy
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Post by elaine on Jul 22, 2015 3:21:39 GMT
Yikes. Is that you, Sanctimommy? You rang? Well, I would never condone yelling at a child. We never raise our voices above a Michelle Duggar whisper/speak. I believe in only the most gentle approach of child rearing. What I like to call: placenta led empowerment. However, I have a few questions and comments about these "parents." 1. Do you know how many BPAs and GMOs went into those pancakes? How much GLUTON? 2. why were you not breastfeeding your toddler? Lay her on the table and let her get that snack. That is all she was asking for, I'm sure. 3. If she wasn't hungry, why was she crying? Where were her words? My two year old was speaking in iambic pentameter and asking for my organic kale chips in Chinese by that age. Of course she said please and thank you (unprompted) in sanskrit. 4. When do you plan on teaching her to discuss her feelings? I like to use the Socratic method to gently lead my children to an appropriate space to process their feelings. They know, with just ONE LOOK, that I mean business and they become silent and introspective awaiting my ever gentle lead. Namaste, Sanctimommy LOL! For the win! ...
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jul 22, 2015 4:27:33 GMT
Oh god, this is really disheartening. No one I know allows their kid to scream or cry in a restaurant - they stand up and go outside immediately, especially if there's screeching or screaming of any kind at all. No, I don't expect people to leave with the sound of a peep, but loud crying, screaming, screeching, shrieking, or anything that makes other diners actually physically flinch, I expect parents to remove the child and not wait 10 minutes or beyond. 10 minutes is a really long time to allow a child to cry in a public place where everyone else is trapped. I guess we could just as easily go outside until the tantrum subsides?I am fed up with children carrying on in restaurants, even expensive restaurants lately and it seems like it's getting worse and worse, while the bleary-eyed parents vacantly stare into space or focus extra hard on their conversations or smart phones. Ugh. I hope she didn't scream at that child or in the child's face, but the parents sound like they needed a nice public shaming. There was a discussion on one of my dog groups last week about neighbors complaining about a barking puppy. I taped my puppy barking as he chased our sprinkler. I stopped taping at 23 seconds, yep. I didn't even make it a full minute before I stopped taping, his playful barking was that annoying! I think people have no idea what the true length of time is when it's a barking dog or screaming child.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 4:27:37 GMT
is that Gwyneth? I am glad she made an appearance here. At 2Peas we had Miss Manners, O'Rly and Frolly.
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Post by RiverIsis on Jul 22, 2015 5:00:11 GMT
I think it's kinda funny that some people think she should've been all sweet and nice about it. Sounds like she was initially but these parents also sound like they think the world revolves them and their special snowflake. This diner owner isn't trying to win any popularity contests here, she's just trying to run her place the way she wants to and I highly doubt she'd ever want those people back so, might as well make a point. I bet her business triples within the month. People are sick of entitlement...in any form it takes. People in general should be able to go out in public without having some self-absorbed, self-important imbecile inflict their screaming kids on them. For perspective, we went to Philly and one of the write ups for the top places to get a Philly Cheesesteak included getting grief from the staff for everything and anything! So yeah, she will be just fine. Don't like it, don't go there but loads of people will still go.
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Post by RiverIsis on Jul 22, 2015 5:10:25 GMT
I guess diners and other restaurants now have to post signs that say "please remove your child if your child can't be controlled, cries, screams or disrupts others in anyway. Yes, this means you" because parents obviously Cannot be expected to be aware of the need to do this and therefore they must be told Right next to the warning that the coffee might be very hot and could burn.
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Post by RiverIsis on Jul 22, 2015 5:15:36 GMT
1. I feel sorry for every teacher, scout leader, etc., that will ever have that child in their group, because they will have deal with those parents. 2. The diner owner lost her shit on Facebook. Holy overreaction, batman. I freely admit to being that person who questions people's parenting skills (to their face, even), but that response was uncalled for. TL;DR - I think the screaming toddler may well have been the best behaved individual in this story. For real! I would cry too if I had to put up with those people (parents/owner)
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Post by jackie on Jul 22, 2015 13:53:42 GMT
Love Sanctimommy! I was on board with the owner at first, even though she's a little rough. I agree that screaming shouldn't be going on while others are trying to eat. I think people are exaggerating about the amount of time, but any amount beyond a few minutes or so isn't cool. I also think the parents are exaggerating with the "yelling in their child's face" comment. I do believe the crazy owner was behind the counter when she said what she said. I don't think she handled it the best way, but I kind of get it. What is NOT cool and what makes it unbelievable to me that anyone could support her is the way she handled it afterward. Her little tirade filled with about a dozen or so eff word expletives was ridiculously over the top. Calling a child, no matter how much they were bothering you at the time, a "monster", "beast", "rotten", etc. is completely uncalled for. Period. She has no excuse for that. It was after the fact, it wasn't the heat of the moment. She's an idiot and I also wouldn't set foot in her place. I kind of love this meme that I saw on one of the sites though:
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jul 22, 2015 14:06:20 GMT
All of this would've been avoided if everybody involved had abided by the golden rule "Don't be an asshole".
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Post by epeanymous on Jul 22, 2015 15:13:26 GMT
Ugh. The truth is that I wouldn't go there now (and I vacation every summer in Maine and spend a few days in Portland visiting friends), not because I think it is reasonable to keep your screaming child in a restaurant, but because the owner's over-the-top FB posts and media interviews suggest she doesn't really care for kids, period, and I have five of them. I am thinking I am not their target customer, and it is a region where you have a lot of options, since coastal Maine is a huge family tourist destination. That's fine -- not everywhere has to be kid friendly. The diner on the street I just moved from this summer did not welcome kids, even though it was a neighborhood with mostly families with young kids, and you just didn't take your kids there because you knew the owners didn't want them there.
Sorry I didn't do the required throat-clearing at the beginning of this. Yes, disruptive kids should be removed from a restaurant by parents when they do things like melting down, yes, if my kids get like that I remove them (no, they don't do it often, because we eat out a lot and they are used to behaving in restaurants, but I could see my youngest getting antsy if his routines were disrupted by travel and he was hungry and waiting for that long for food). I will also do the other throat-clearing I generally do on the "these kids today" posts, which is that I eat out a lot and have had far more meals spoiled by poorly-behaved adults than poorly-behaved children.
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Post by oh yvonne on Jul 22, 2015 15:49:14 GMT
The family were tourists from New York. It isn't as though they would automatically know what size pancakes the were. I can imagine that if the 2yo was used to getting 3 pancakes at their restaurants back home, that is what she wanted there. If child was already fussy, I can imagine ordering three pancakes, because only 1 would cause more fuss. Because, to a 2 yo, 1 is always less than 3, even if it is a huge pancake that is bigger than 6 silver dollar pancakes. Piaget stages and all - conservation of number. And, since they were tourists, it isn't as if they could easily pack up a meal to eat at home. I think it was a tough situation that neither party handled well. And, from a business owner, the yelling and profanity was inexcusable. And to me, that's the crux of the issue. Because it *shouldn't* have been a tough situation. It was breakfast in a diner. Your kid starts acting up, you leave. Period.
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Post by camanddanismom on Jul 22, 2015 17:53:00 GMT
I dont think the owner did anything wrong. Yes, she is a little rough around the edges. And I have not seen any more reports since the original so maybe I am not completely in the know...
I have been that mother and I would never subject other diners, who are paying to eat out, relax and enjoy themselves, to my crying child. I couldn't in good conscience let my child ruin it for everyone else, but I see it all the time. Parents who don't pay attention to their kids who run around the restaurant or throw food or fight with their siblings or cry. It is not fair, even if it is a family restaurant. When my kids were young, one of us would leave with the child. If it was raining, we would wait in the car. There were about 2 years where we didn't eat out at all. When we took young children to a restaurant, I packed accordingly. Snacks, toys, familiar bowls/cups/utensil spill mat...
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Post by lucillebluth on Jul 22, 2015 18:44:53 GMT
I read this story elsewhere and just knew it would be a hot topic here! It has prompted me to delurk! In case anyone's interested, the mom has a piece on the Washington Post site: I'm the mom...I'm still on Team Owner, even if I'd probably rather not encounter her in real life! The mom kinda rubs me the wrong way, especially this: Really? Your think your baby is terrified and you're being all calm and smug? Not buying it, really. ETA: It also strikes me that the mom repeatedly wrote that the owner was "in my baby's face" but in this article, she makes clear that the owner was behind the grill, and that her family was in a corner booth. So there was at least a little distance between them--"screamed in my baby's face" seems to be exaggerated.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 19:34:30 GMT
personally I don't think she did her side of the story much good and honestly, I am not sure I would have 'fessed up to it and put my name/face out there for the whole world. But she is very insistent on wanting to let everyone know how right she is. I think she is just pissed that the owner dared come back and respond to her posting on the diner's facebook page. I guess I have to ask what she expected? (And truly there are many times when I want to tell customers the truth about their perspective of our company -- you don't get to post on media that we own and not expect a response or to get deleted or blocked)
When my kids were little they got "antsy" really fast if I put them in the highchair too early (often before the food got there). I learned to not put them in their chair until the food came and it kept them much happier. I learned to ask for some crackers to nibble on, etc if I didn't bring something from home. I dont' blame this child for this issue at all, but clueless parents who knew the diner would be busy with a wait and did nothing to help their child cope with it (for more than 40 minutes). Even in the end the mom admitted it was not just crying but a tantrum.
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Post by smartypants71 on Jul 22, 2015 19:47:09 GMT
One of the comments from that article LOL!
From a Yelp Reviewer: "They have a very strange two pancake limit. When I asked if I could get two orders of two pancakes the owner threatened to get physical. She said that the only reason she didn't "take this outside" is she only fights babies. The pancakes tasted too salty, almost as if they were flavored with the tears of all the children this woman has terrorized. My wife said her omelette was pretty good, though."
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