BAN BABIES?
Babies should be banned. You save up for a birthday or wedding anniversary. Whether it's lunch or dinner doesn't matter. It's still a meal at an expensive restaurant. It should be a treat. You want to concentrate on your food and flavours, not be distracted. What if a drunk started singing loudly next to your baby? What if the restaurant plays music at full blast so you can't her to talk? I want a romantic meal to listen to my beloved.
What about the cost? You pay for a babysitter. To get away from the stress at home. Then you have your expensive romantic evening ruined by a baby crying.
THE BABY
Baby - is it eating? Is it paying?
Does the baby know or care? It can't eat the food. Nor enjoy the experience.
Many restaurants when fully booked ban customers who are not eating. I find this annoying if you are a large group with just one person not eating, at a time when tables are empty. But a baby is also a customer who is not eating.
FAMILY MEALS
If you want a family meal with child size cheap portions you go to McDonalds or fast food. If baby is a nuisance you soon leave and the place is already noisy. You can move upstairs or down to leave in peace those who've already been disturbed for five minutes.
When you are on holiday sometimes you can't get a babysitter. You should apologise in advance to the restaurant and adjacent diners. (Somebody on the staff might have time to amuse the baby. It might be distracted by the smiling people at the next table, rather than crying for attention when it's being ignored.
If you say in advance you have a baby, ask to be seated near the front or back exit. Maybe near a ladies toilet. The moment the baby gets restless and so much as snuffles or whimpers, you take it out to the toilet or the car or the reception lobby or a distant corner far away from diners. There you can soothe it, calm it, fed it, breastfed it, bottle fed it, sung it lullabies or simply waited for it to fall asleep.
Also not fair on baby to be kept awake by bright lights and chatter. It should be sleeping in calm and darkness. Maybe if top restaurants find this a recurring problem, they can have quiet and noisy corners. Put the baby in the noisy corner with the loud music. Or in a soundproof corner or behind a barrier or screen, even a separate room.
Babies should be banned. You save up for a birthday or wedding anniversary. Whether it's lunch or dinner doesn't matter. It's still a meal at an expensive restaurant. It should be a treat. You want to concentrate on your food and flavours, not be distracted. What if a drunk started singing loudly next to your baby? What if the restaurant plays music at full blast so you can't her to talk? I want a romantic meal to listen to my beloved.
What about the cost? You pay for a babysitter. To get away from the stress at home. Then you have your expensive romantic evening ruined by a baby crying.
THE BABY
Baby - is it eating? Is it paying?
Does the baby know or care? It can't eat the food. Nor enjoy the experience.
Many restaurants when fully booked ban customers who are not eating. I find this annoying if you are a large group with just one person not eating, at a time when tables are empty. But a baby is also a customer who is not eating.
FAMILY MEALS
If you want a family meal with child size cheap portions you go to McDonalds or fast food. If baby is a nuisance you soon leave and the place is already noisy. You can move upstairs or down to leave in peace those who've already been disturbed for five minutes.
When you are on holiday sometimes you can't get a babysitter. You should apologise in advance to the restaurant and adjacent diners. (Somebody on the staff might have time to amuse the baby. It might be distracted by the smiling people at the next table, rather than crying for attention when it's being ignored.
If you say in advance you have a baby, ask to be seated near the front or back exit. Maybe near a ladies toilet. The moment the baby gets restless and so much as snuffles or whimpers, you take it out to the toilet or the car or the reception lobby or a distant corner far away from diners. There you can soothe it, calm it, fed it, breastfed it, bottle fed it, sung it lullabies or simply waited for it to fall asleep.
Also not fair on baby to be kept awake by bright lights and chatter. It should be sleeping in calm and darkness. Maybe if top restaurants find this a recurring problem, they can have quiet and noisy corners. Put the baby in the noisy corner with the loud music. Or in a soundproof corner or behind a barrier or screen, even a separate room.
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