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Originally Posted by shesus
My question is: Why would you want to take a kid to a restaurant like that in the first place? The menu alone should keep parents with small children away. I don't think I'd spend $125 on a meal for me, let alone a child.
Before JJ and I left Chicago, we went to a semi-formal restaurant. I had a family sitting at the table behind me. I was amazed that they would actually spend $30+ on a meal for their 2 kids, who was under 10. During our meal, their son accidentally spilled his drink on me. The parents apologized profusely and the child was clearly upset. How traumatic for him.
Why not take kids to fun restaurants and let them be kids? They'll have all the time in the world to learn how to behave in stuffy, upscale places.
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This is one of those cultural things.
I take my child to "decent" restaurants several times a month (she's 7). We generally run to about £35 ($70) per head for normal 3 course meal (our local itallian place), but I've spent over £100 a head for one of the best local restaurants (5* place).
My daughter is welcome in all of them, and we've never been turned away.
She's learned how to be polite in a restaurant (first went into one aged 2 days).
In my travels all over the world, North American kids have been the worst behaved in restaurants - shouting, attention whoring, insisting on refills and so on.
American waiting staff have been the worst I've experienced too - pushy, rude, argumentative, and automatically expecting a tip. I tip if I get good service, that is polite and not pushy. I have NEVER had decent service in a US restaurant unless it was a mom & pop place.