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Everyone else has pretty much said everything I want to say. You don't bring your uncontrollable kids into a resturaunt. But I'm fine with kids who have their act together. I've been at resturuants sitting at the table right next to families with 1-2 young children (between 2-7) where neither kid cried, whined, destroyed anything or was bothersome to me or anyone else for a half hour. So no, I don't believe *every* kid is an annoying brat. However, I have seen the opposite and it is completely disrespectful.
I understand that it might be hard to find something to feed your kids at semi-exotic food places. However...it's not impossible. My parents used to take me to Mexican when I was a kid. I always got "Mexican Grilled Cheese" (that's what I called Quesadillas at the time). Pretty much everywhere you go, there are somewhat bland dishes...and if there aren't, don't bring your kid there. It's just tacky, disrespectful and bad mannered to bring food from someplace else (especially McDonalds) into a resturaunt. If you want to feed your kid McDonalds, you can do so before or after the meal. You wouldn't bring food from Mcdonalds to your friends house when you knew they were cooking for you...so why would you do the same with a resturaunt? ....Personally, if I was the manager of that resturaunt, i would approach the people doing so and kindly ask them to leave (well...maybe not on the food alone...but at the first sign that the kid was being noisy and disruptive).
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