To want a coffee shop with a no children policy

There are such places.

I'm not sure they can say "no children under the age of X" as that would count as age discrimination.

They can point out things like "We can't accomodate prams at any time, and have no high chairs or baby change facilities."

Mind you, Warner Leisure hotels get away with a "no under 18s" rule. And apparently are quite successful, so the market may well be there for coffee shops.

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Or perhaps not - I'm guessing your people skills aren't great

I'm not sure I agree, given some of the responses on here. I think there are plenty of us 'intolerant' adults (nice bit of pass-ag snark there) who would pay good money for a break from the constant screaming that seems to be considered fine and dandy these days.

Everyone's young child cries sometimes. Perhaps it's only occasionally, but you could be sitting nearby when they do. It doesn't mean they constantly scream everywhere they go.

Invest in a bean to cup barista style coffee machine and then you never have to integrate with the great unwashed ever again! (It’s what I do!)

No they don’t … parenting is a verb a doing word…. You don’t just let your child scream in a public cafe/ restaurant/ shop

This is very true regarding the business. Since having a baby I spend far more time in cafés during the daytime than I have at any other point in my life. Most of the clientele in cafés during weekdays seems to be mother's with babies/toddlers and pensioners in my area. If they barred children many would go bust.

Although I sympathise with the OP as far as persistently screaming children, it's awful to listen to, especially if their parent is ignoring them. I do take colouring books, sticker books, small toys etc to entertain my child and I would remove them if they screamed.

Get a coffee machine!

I doubt most business owners would risk it. They need a target demographic at all times of the day, so they're unlikely to cut people out. Parents with toddlers can be a large part of the late morning clientele. People on their own wanting to be quiet are not so common, unless they are working, which brings its own issues, like table hogging. Perhaps a cafe/bar?

Really? I can't see any evidence of that.

Coffee shops need to try this...

I can see where you’re coming from. I went to b&m this morning, and there was a family in the aisle next to their two young children were talking about something they had seen for sale, but they were shouting. The parents were talking back to them, but I thought it was odd that they never asked them to lower their voices or stop shouting.

how will children know, unless they are asked not to shout? I get it, they get excited and want to be heard, but the noise of them was really going through me and the parents were oblivious.

@ilovesooty I wish they were 😔 I loved my local one but it closed years ago and the city library got taken down and they opened a teeny tiny "library" in the museum instead.

Hospitality margins are wafer thin.

There isn’t a surfeit of intolerant adults currently refusing to buy coffee, who will suddenly sustain the lost trade from parents in coffee shops the moment high chairs and buggies are banned.

a coffee shop with a quiet policy sounds nice, where everyone wants that!

I’d love a cafe set up in the style of a library. Also maybe it would just naturally cause people to be quieter. For the record, I don’t mind babies or dogs and yes it’s not nice when they’re noisy but everyone is entitled to a ‘third space’. 🙂📚

I personally find that a bit weird as well but its also pretty different given that you travel to a hotel and they are generally in areas with lots of family hotels as well so people can self select. I don't understand (a) being so anti children that you can't live with a little bit of noise when you're drinking your coffee - for the 20 years before i had kids i still enjoyed seeing even noisy ones around as long as they weren't drastically misbehaving and then i just felt sorry for them, (b) being the sort of person who want to exclude all the mothers who are desperate for a coffee as they have small kids from accessing one of the few public indoor spaces we still have left.

Are libraries all that quiet these days?

Now, dog friendly places I avoid, unless sectioned off. I like seeing children about the place and mums, because it’s usually mums, getting out and about.

Not likely. If this morning in a local shopping centre was anything to go by, this part of the world have been procreating and were all in M&S.

Because they'd be tapping into a different and very much under-served demographic.

This is our local and favourite cafe, it has a small book section and has regular book signings and authors visiting. It’s absolutely child friendly especially after school as it serves a very popular locally made ice creams. A lot of the authors are children’s authors so it would be quite hypocritical to ban children from the cafe. I don’t think I’ve ever seen children running around, yes they might get excited about picking their ice cream and I’ve overheard a few get excited their favourite book was free to read ( there is a box of help yourself kids books) or a very dramatic debrief of the school day by a child, but as a whole the children are just as well behaved as anyone else.

I think it’s all well and good wanting child free spaces but unless there is a massive call for it in the area it’s not going to work, many cafes rely on parent groups or parents with young kids coming in throughout the day. Especially atm when small businesses especially ones that sell luxuries like coffee and cake are going out of business left right and centre.

Id rather hear a child having a tantrum ( obviously only if the parent is trying to stop it) than some inconsiderate idiot who watches videos or listens to music from their phone without headphones or even worse having a conversation on loudspeaker!

Why would a coffee shop ban a large percentage of their clientele, crazy...