Diner owner criticized for yelling at a crying child — what would you do?

Enfuego · Jul 21, 2015

http://www.today.com/parents/diner-owner-criticized-yelling-crying-child-what-would-you-do-t33601

Betallsports · Jul 21, 2015

I think I have to get to Maine and give her more business..

I Hate when parents do Nothing to stop a child from crying... and more so when all they had to do is give the kid some pancakes or probably something else to eat.

metro · Jul 21, 2015

I'm calling bullshit on the owner that said the baby cried nonstop for 40 minutes.. and if the kid wanted pancakes why wouldn't you feed your child what they want when you take them out for food?.. i side with the parents..typical whhite people corny discipline .. bulshit that the kid cried for 40 minutes

DesertDevil · Jul 21, 2015

metro said:
I'm calling bullshit on the owner that said the baby cried nonstop for 40 minutes..

Why? Parents today are fucking clueless. As is most of the general population.

Nothing surprises me.

Greenbacks · Jul 21, 2015

1 year old child......1.........Not 4,5,or 6.

Yelling at a 1 year old like it understands....Fuck that owner.

metro · Jul 21, 2015

its not owners place to discipline the child..if she cared about the disturbance she shuldve brought a plate over with a double stack of flapjacks on it with a smile and said its on the house.. the kid coulda had, torrets, aspburgers or some other type of disorder

Redagger029 · Jul 21, 2015

Teaching the kid early to become a major crybaby in life.

Greenbacks · Jul 21, 2015

I like to take a plane ride over there and put a rock through her window.

metro · Jul 21, 2015

holy shit the kid was 1?

metro · Jul 21, 2015

fucking white nerds (a mainer) with their discipline power trips.. wow you really showed that 1 year old..meanwhile her 12 or 13 year old is afraid of his own shadow and gets his ass kicked in school

TheComputerGroup · Jul 22, 2015

I've been in restaurant business all my life & never yelled at a child that was crying said anything to the parents.

I have wished that the child would stop crying & told my waitresses as well, but not to the customers.

And like mentioned above, there are parents that are plain stupid.......

I had a few families that actually gave a 3-4 year old child a full meal......like a steak dinner, I'm.like, wtf, that child isn't eating that whole meal, & most people won't take most of the food left on the plate home.......

metro · Jul 22, 2015

I'm sure the waiter appreciated it, working a table that has a child crying for (allegedly) 40 minutes and then you step in and insult
them and there goes the tip , were they a black couple cause in the case the waiter probably told the owner 'fuck it' go ahead they aint gon tip anyway

Betallsports · Jul 22, 2015

metro said:
I'm sure the waiter appreciated it, working a table that has a child crying for (allegedly) 40 minutes and then you step in and insult
them and there goes the tip , were they a black couple cause in the case the waiter probably told the owner 'fuck it' go ahead they aint gon tip anyway

Not sure why you have posted a few racist comments about this... and I believe no they were not Black.

I probably don't agree with the owner yelling at a 1 1/2 year old... But I would have asked the parents multiple times to try to keep the kid quiet or take him/her outside.
I've seen this plenty of times.

and if you have never seen a parent or parents just ignore a child crying ( and I mean like the kid was getting Killed crying ) and not Try to do anything.... it happens a lot.

metro · Jul 22, 2015

my bad BAS awhile back NFLTrends had a thread about black tippers, prior to that i knew nutting about it I've never been in retail
or any service industry.. and white people that behave as nerd/gestapo disciplinarians i know some.. thats all.

FearTheRaven · Jul 22, 2015

Not sure I believe the 40 minutes but I have a 20 month old and if she starts whining or crying in a restaurant I take her outside immediately. It irritates me so I know it irritates other tables.

That said if someone comes over and yells at my kid they are getting a back-hand across the face.

Pretty crazy the kid was only 1.

festeringZit · Jul 22, 2015

[h=3]Was the diner owner right to yell at a crying child?[/h][h=2]7,874 votes[/h]


52%4,100 votesYes, it needed to be done.	22%1,725 votesNo, she should have yelled at the parents, not the child!	26%2,049 votesNo, she should have handled it differently.

PatsFanatic · Jul 22, 2015

I'm from Portland, spend every weekend there in the summer. Been to this establishment.
As I remember it the place is real small (imagine a crying kid packed into a tiny breakfast place). She has a small grill (pretty well known food takes a while). Its probably a cook to order place meaning the go table by table and only cook for that table at a time because their kitchen is small.

I doubt the crying went on for 40 minutes like the owner claims. It would have cleared out the entire restaurant in that amount of time.
The Parents are 100% to blame in this situation. As a father of a 8 and 5 year old I've been there. The dumb ass mom didn't have anything for the hungry kid to eat while she waited for her 3 pancakes. (LOL, 3 of them, what 21 month year old could possibly eat 3 pancakes, I couldn't and most of you couldn't, they are HUGE). My kids get one and won't finish it. She has a lot to learn about parenting. Bring a snack, this is parenting 101.

Now, no doubt the owner overreacted. She could have handled it much better. Spoke to them in a civil manner and kindly asked that they give the kid a break outside, distract the kid from sitting in a busy restaurant. Give the kid something to play with, anything but let the kid cry. But she was swamped no doubt, and irritated about the crying, and irritated that the kid needed 3 fucking pancakes.

She will gain some good business from people wanting to eat at a kid-free restaurant!

festeringZit · Jul 22, 2015

PatsFanatic said:
I'm from Portland, spend every weekend there in the summer. Been to this establishment.
As I remember it the place is real small (imagine a crying kid packed into a tiny breakfast place). She has a small grill (pretty well known food takes a while). Its probably a cook to order place meaning the go table by table and only cook for that table at a time because their kitchen is small.

I doubt the crying went on for 40 minutes like the owner claims. It would have cleared out the entire restaurant in that amount of time.
The Parents are 100% to blame in this situation. As a father of a 8 and 5 year old I've been there. The dumb ass mom didn't have anything for the hungry kid to eat while she waited for her 3 pancakes. (LOL, 3 of them, what 21 month year old could possibly eat 3 pancakes, I couldn't and most of you couldn't, they are HUGE). My kids get one and won't finish it. She has a lot to learn about parenting. Bring a snack, this is parenting 101.

Now, no doubt the owner overreacted. She could have handled it much better. Spoke to them in a civil manner and kindly asked that they give the kid a break outside, distract the kid from sitting in a busy restaurant. Give the kid something to play with, anything but let the kid cry. But she was swamped no doubt, and irritated about the crying, and irritated that the kid needed 3 fucking pancakes.

She will gain some good business from people wanting to eat at a kid-free restaurant!

I heard an interview on the radio with the child's mother, she seemed like a clueless idiot to me...

If it's my kid crying, I'm picking the kid up and walking outside after about 2-3 minutes.

PatsFanatic · Jul 22, 2015

Me too Zit. I saw her post on Facebook and that was clueless as well.

Hamilbet · Jul 22, 2015

Someone who was in the resturant called in to a radio station by me this morning. he explained she slammed her hands on a counter not their table, it was about 30 min of crying and fussing and the manager asked the family to leave prior to the breakdown.