Comments on: Check Please!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:14:41 +0000

As for children in restaurants, At the time my wife and I had two young children and did not get out much, So we decide to go out to dinner
at a more upscale Restaurant one table away was a family with three
children the young one cried the entire dinner while the older ones ran around the restaurant… We go out to have a nice dinner and it was ruined, The restaurant should have controlled the situation. We did not take our children to these type Restaurants until they were ready to act in a way that did not disturb other diners.

By: carol

carol — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:14:03 +0000

The pepper mill rant is right up my alley, I want to lose my mind when here he/she comes with the damned thing….what is that about anyway ?Don’t we usually have salt and pepper on our tables ? Good one Ron. :)

By: stewart

stewart — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:27:36 +0000

I completely agree with your assessment regarding young children in restaurants for late dinner. I am a parent of a 19 month old, and I would never take my baby to a “adult” restaurant for dinner. Lunch is another story, however. Even at lunch, I ask whether children are welcome before we are seated. If a restaurant doesn’t have highchairs that is a pretty strong indication that children are not welcome.

By: BT

BT — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:54:00 +0000

I was in DeRaimos in Huntington last week; some woman had two beasties(ages 3 & 5 she proudly announced) running loose, knocking over chairs, dropping things, screaming, banging into people…none of us found them charming. She kept ASKING them over and over to behave…all they did was ignore her and get worse. Perhaps next time she could bring a cage and some muzzles and control her the little animals properly. I’m sure that if they had gotten hurt the first thing she would have done is sue the place.

By: Ron Beigel

Ron Beigel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:21:35 +0000

But why do restaurants feel its necessary to make a big thing about pepper? Can’t we be trusted to handle our own grinder?

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:06:57 +0000

I agree about young children in “adult” restaurants. Your choice to have children does not mean that I must join in raising them.

The spiel about the pepper, on the other hand, is a bit overblown.

“Purposefully under-seasoned?” Some people like pepper, some do not. For some it’s fine as-is, for others it needs more.

And if they delay offering pepper because someone complains they’re there too quickly, then someone else will complain they had to wait.