Child only area in restaurant- discriminatory?

So you don't want to be disturbed by other people's children, but they can be disturbed by yours... 🤔

How do you know they don’t market their place at children when is a family friendly restaurant with a children’s play area? She hasn’t said what the place is called.

I think that was terrible. Your money is as good as anyone's and the customer should always be right. That never happened to us when we had small children.

The line between the two tends to be blurred these days.

Some places refer to themselves as a bar & restaurant.

It's not as though they went to McDonald's or such a place where the marketing is aimed at children.

Yes and board a bus in a wheelchair and the driver will direct you to the wheelchair area. At train stations and airports, we're directed to use elevators rather than escalators with pushchairs/luggage.

Whatever next, children being referred to the children's hospital rather than the adult ones? Outrageous! ;)

You are being deliberately obtuse. It says right there in the OP that it’s a carvery restaurant with a soft play. That is very clearly designed with a family area for kids and an adult only area, so clearly not a place designed for adults only. You can google the difference between pubs and restaurants.

You had a small child with you, you were put in the children’s area.

If you’d had a dog with you at a restaurant where they have a separate dog area, you’d have been put in the dog area.

Yabu.

I think a child friendly area would be amazing. It means I won’t be on edge while we’re having our meal because I don’t have to worry people who don’t want to breathe the same air as families.
Child friendly flights would be amazing too because all the people who don’t like kids can fuck off on to those far away from us.

I highly suspect it's a public house, a primarily adult environment.

Around half of such didn't allow children in when I was a child.

It's somewhere for grown ups to let their hair down. Nice that they've catered for those with children but let's remember what the primary function of a public house or "pub" is.

You wouldn't expect to go to a soft play centre and be served wine or have fruit machines. I think OP should be grateful that the business has made accommodation for them.

I don’t think she was surprised they’d ideally want to seat them there, I think she was surprised it was non optional, I think OP is BU but there is a difference between preference and compulsory

Huh? You took a CHILD/BABY and are upset you were seated in the family area?! I must be thick because it seems obvious this is where they’d ideally want to seat you.

Not when there is one other table occupied by a couple of elderly ladies in the non kids section at the time. It was a WEDNESDAY bloody lunchtime so I've no idea where your date night and nanny shite has come from. I was there with my mother . And tiny babies can usually just have a boob shoved in their mouth.

Would've been ok if someone wasn't hoding a 2 or 3 year birthday meet iupn the kids area

I concur. I think we're all aware of Asperger's Syndrome now and how it affects people e.g. stimming. I don't think anyone would have a problem with this. Same for Down's Syndrome too.

Ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation are protected characteristics. Being a child or having children isn't.

It clearly says in the OP it was a carvery restaurant with a children’s area and soft play! So not a cocktail bar. And children in a restaurant is absolutely ordinary, what a daft post.

Adults or young teens with physical or learning disabilities who vocalise I would find acceptable in an adult only area. As they should be.

Perhaps a restaurant isn't the best place for such a young infant, with them being so easily woken at that age.

Even in the 'adult' section, there is likely to be the clinking of glasses, ordering of drinks, laughter, raised voices and ringing of bells when food is ready. And why shouldn't there be? Bars & restaurants are places for adults to enjoy themselves. If you've finally been able to get the nanny to babysit on your date night, you wouldn't want it spoiling by someone else's child making mayhem. There are soft play centres for things such as that.

It's legal but I'd have left.

It shows they have a feral child and problem parent issue.

Fuck that shit.

That's fine but not so good when you have a sleeping 6 week of baby and you are shoved in with the almighty racket. Have left a restaurant before due to that

Both are out of the ordinary customer base for a restaurant and both have been known to present disruptive behaviour to other guests.

It would help if the OP said what type of restaurant she visited, e.g. one with a formal dress code and cocktail bar e.g. adult environment or a one with colouring books, crayons and fish fingers on the menu e.g. families with children orientated.

To be honest I’d breathe a sigh of relief if there was a child only / family area in every restaurant so I could take the pressure off a bit when dining out with DC’s (who are young but not disruptive). Likewise if DH and I went out for a rare meal the two of us I’d appreciate being in an adults only section.

But this doesn’t remotely relate to the OP, there is absolutely nothing in OPs post to suggest that had she had an autistic child and phoned ahead and made your request that it wouldn’t have been granted. So no, it isn’t discriminatory to some families because they haven’t discriminated against a family like yours here.

Is this a Green King restaurant by any chance? We went to one a few years ago and I wasn’t happy about this either. What was even more annoying was all the machines in the children’s area which require a £1 coin to get them to work. We haven’t been back since.

I would also imagine this is done to stop parents siting at the opposite end of the building getting pissed and letting the children run to the soft play unsupervised.

Frame it differently.

It’s a pub. It’s basically adults only. With a small area out of line of sight of the bar where children are allowed. Same as playgrounds, no adults without children allowed in that area.

Much less odd.