To want a coffee shop with a no children policy

I always took my kids outside if they screamed, because I didn’t think it was fair to impose them on others !

having said that there’s lots of child friendly that you can take your toddlers to, plus the kids wouldn’t be bored !

I hear you. I have 2 children of my own and whilst shopping today there was a toddler screaming at the top of his/her lungs. As much as I sympathise with the parent, it really did get on my tits! The noise was horrendous and went on for way too long.

That's gross too!

I have never seen a dog pee in a cafe or pub. However, I have seen parents change nappies on tables, and one time saw a mum get her small child to pull down their trousers/pants and use a potty right in the middle of a cafe.

I've seen a dog peeing under the table in a pub. Then the waiter patted the dog and continued making sandwiches, without washing her hands. Gross. And I'm scared of dogs too 🐕

Entirely different from children

Then you need the Old Barracks Coffee Shop in Ireland.

Okaaay, will share one of my fave places, but don't all rush at once & spoil it..
https://www.alamy.com/barter-books-alnwick-northumberland-uk-image66751470.html

Never see any kids at the coffee shops in my town; perhaps I go at the wrong times of day.

It’s called a coffee machine at your own home .

I've been to cafes that had two rooms to it.
The main area with the counter and a smaller area with door labelled quiet zones

If this were more widespread it would sort the problem of keeping wider clientele while giving an area for those who struggle with noise

All less annoying than children screaming, which goes right through my nervous system.

Agree - no kids venues please !!

I wouldn't take it personally as a parent of small children - and I would also happily go to a child-free cafe with a friend at the weekend. But what I wouldn't do is take my kids in the week to a cafe that doesn't allow kids at the weekend - not because I'd be offended, but because it would make me feel that children weren't actually wanted at all. Which is fine, but I think would be a problem for most cafes to lose a big section of the much more limited mid-week customers. Obviously there are adults without children who want to go a cafe during the week but in many places not enough. I think in most areas a child-free cafe would do really well at the weekend but would struggle in the week. As I said, it might be different if they're in a location that would get a lot of custom from nearby workers in the week - though then people will almost inevitably start to use it for meetings/working (including phone calls), which most people find equally annoying in a different way!

Oh please, couldn't we have just one giraffe?

Yes, there are 2 reasons I want a child free cafe is one i have a child and I have never thought the whole world revolves around my should and they should be allowed everywhere same with anyone's child

In that case can we also have a coffee shop with

• NO teenagers (the loud ones are more annoying that noisy small children IMO)
• No phone calls
• No anyone with a loud voice
• No one with a certain accent…

there are lots of irritating people in the world but they do actually have the right to exist in public

Also, lots of places need as many customers as possible to stay open with the price of commercial rent

Cat cafes are lovely, I'd just want to check their welfare policy, that the cats get days off and have quiet places, etc. They need tighter laws than humans before I would visit!
There's a lovely one in Liverpool that seems to follow the cat laws, I hope it does!

Slight derail ....we've had a cat cafe open near us which sounds lovely! I'm hoping someone might treat us all for Christmas (£15 each for an hr at weekends - coffees etc, extra). I live in a flat and miss having cats 🐈 😢. Back to the thread, noisy children should be removed if they're disruptive and some cafes advertise as being welcoming to prams and children so families do have a choice (and I'd know to avoid - everyone happy 😊).

I'd say the only people who find a post like this to be goady and anti-child are the ones with the "they're just being toddlers" which is a bit cringy because you know that leads to things like "oh, boys will be boys' Anything to excuse lax parenting under the guise of 'letting them be babies/toddlers/preschoolers/children.

It's like "waaaaah, you hate my child, just because he/she makes some noise. It's natural for toddlers to scream,we clearly love our children more because we let them get it alllllll out".

A child free cafe takes nothing away from you or YOUR child at all. It's not like there aren't another couple 'over there'

I think its' more 'anti-child' to allow the behaviour those wishing for child free cafes are forced to endure. You'll forgo any kind of parenting to enjoy your own coffee/tea break and foist the behaviour on everyone else to do so. Meanwhile, child learns nothing about how to behave. Unfair to child as much as to patrons. Not going to make them anyones fave to be around 🤷‍♀️

I do not hate children, have a bunch of my own. They behaved when out, or we left. I was not going to reward MY children but foisting them on others who should not have to put up with misbehaving in what should be a quiet, enjoyable setting.
Also not one of those mums who have to spend every second with their children and make it my lifes work to 'let them be who they are'. Code for: 'discipline is not the way I parent'

Ooh, I would love this. Even better would be a quiet cafe because adults can be noisy too.

OP is not demanding they exist, I think she just wants to go to one.
And I still think that popping out for a childfree coffee now and then is vastly different from slogging away working in one.

Interestingly, when I googled child-free cafes, the only one I could find (easily) was the one in Tipperary mentioned above!

But equally, if no one can make it financially viable to run a child free cafe, or wants to, then you can hardly demand that they exist. Be the change you wish to see in the world and all that.

If you want to be connected to the local community, you need to deal with members of the local community.

We have a small local community shop and I was in earlier in the week. There were 5 women in: 2 of them at least had buggies and there were about 2/3 toddler's /young children milling about and general getting in the way. I could barely get to the shelves to get the food. I did remark in hopefully jokingly way that it was busy today, the co-ordinator said to 1 of the volunteers not to let anyone else in for the moment, and asked another customer to wait outside for a bit until the others went away. Some other shops are like that as well and they should have a limit on how many buggies/prams are allowed in especially if they are a😔small shop. 😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤

I think one thing that really hasn’t helped is the fashion for very industrial decor in cafes. We are hopefully coming out the other side of it now, but I’ve never been into an industrial style cafe where the acoustics haven’t been appalling.