A restaurant in the US state of Georgia is causing outrage after charging for loud and unruly children. When guests open their menu at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant, they are first greeted with a warning: “Adult Surcharge: For adults who cannot raise their children.”
The procedure is now being discussed on social networks. A woman who visited the restaurant with her husband and children also made serious accusations against the restaurant’s owner. He insulted the family and shouted at them in front of the other guests.
“The children were so well behaved”
36-year-old Lyndsey Landman from Florida visited the restaurant with her husband and four other families. A total of eleven children between the ages of three and eight were at their table. She described the evening in the American TV program ‘Today’. “The kids sat on one side of the table and were so well behaved,” Landsmann said.
After dessert, some parents went to the river with their children. Then the owner of the restaurant came to their table. He held the menu in his hand and pointed to where the fee was listed. “At first I thought he wanted to compliment us and say, ‘But you don’t have to pay anything because your children were so well behaved,'” Landsmann said. But then things turned out completely differently.
Because the restaurant owner told her that her table would be charged a fee of $50 per bill. His explanation was that the children were “too loud.” According to his compatriot, he was also annoyed that the children were “running around outside” – even though they were supervised by adults.
When Landsmann replied that the children had been quiet, the situation apparently got out of hand. The owner of the restaurant told the family that they belonged in a Burger King and not in his restaurant. “I looked around the restaurant and everyone was frozen as he put on his show. He was screaming,” Landsmann said. “It was alarming,” she added.
“We just want to live and cook in the forest”
The restaurant declined to comment when contacted by “Today.” An email quotes: “We will not comment on a policy we have had for years. “We just want to live in the forest and cook.”
Lyndsey’s husband gave the restaurant a one-star rating on Google after the experience. Apparently not as the only father. “My wife was rocking the baby (he wasn’t crying but trying to get him to sleep), and this ‘manager’ told her you don’t do that in a fancy restaurant,” someone else wrote in the comments.
One guest apparently had different experiences: “My kid isn’t a loud kid for 20 months old, but he can still have his moments and everyone thought it was cool. Super child-friendly!” said the review.
However, other people were happy with the company’s guidelines: “More than once I have been to a restaurant where the parents literally let their children run wild. “I’m not sure if this is the solution, but something definitely needs to be done about parents like this,” one person commented on Reddit. Another user wrote: “Good, more places need something like this. Parents who take their kids to a restaurant… and let them do whatever they want is incredibly annoying.”
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