To think this pregnant woman was overly entitled

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www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/breastfeeding-mum-asked-leave-zizzi-3849780

It just seems that she was looking to get offended for social media likes.

The incident, on Sunday, February 2, was made all the more frustrating for the mum, because a large part of her job involves urging new mums to breastfeed their infants and feel confident doing it in public Well then she's failed hasn't she as it seems she is ashamed of breastfeeding and demands a private area for it. For me when my baby cries because she's hungry I feed her. Her need for milk overrides anything else. I'd never go to a restaurant where I wasn't eating at that time anyway let alone kick off because the table they cleared specifically for me wasn't good enough. She sounds derranged.

No clicky-link! and then the link doesn't work!

She wanted to take up a table where she was neither eating or drinking and that would probably lose the restaurant two covers. She was an entitled arse.

The link works fine for me. It wasn’t a huge endeavour to copy and paste it into my browser.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/breastfeeding-mum-asked-leave-zizzi-3849780

What an utter cock end.

She promotes public breastfeeding but the larger table was too public? 🧐

She is being ridiculous. She was expecting a business to give up a table at which paying customers could be sitting so she could feed her baby. She was not eating there at that time. I’ve breastfed both my dc and it would never have crossed my mind to go and demand a table at a restaurant to sit and feed at. I am all for making life as easy as possible for breastfeeding mums, in fact I also volunteer as a breastfeeding support worker, but that’s not at the expense of everything else. And they were good enough to try and make a space for her as well. Ridiculous behaviour. I feel sorry for Zizzi’s.

It sounds like the restaurant has an area for families and a quieter area for adults. They offered her a table. She’s creating a mountain out of a molehill.

I feel like borrowing a baby, visiting restaurants then kicking up a stink to get vouchers, seems like a good scam. (rolls eyes).

It is beyond me why this even made a newspaper and why the head office gave her a bloody voucher! They should have backed their staff up

This.

Staff in hospitality and retail often get treated like shit - and if HO just apologise and pay up, they encourage it.

Sorry link worked on different browser.

She is being ridiculous. She was expecting a business to give up a table at which paying customers could be sitting so she could feed her baby. She was not eating there at that time.

I agree.

She doesn’t seem to have grasped that just because a table looks available doesn’t mean it is available, and that she effectively water two tables. That’s not reasonable.

Having said that, the restaurant shouldn’t have been concerned about the table they offered her being exposed, unless she flagged it as a concern?

I didn’t really get this, but it sounds to me like she wasn’t actually a customer?

Ridiculous.

Having said that, the restaurant shouldn’t have been concerned about the table they offered her being exposed, unless she flagged it as a concern?

The restaurant weren't bothered about it being exposed, she was. That's why she kicked off.

"I said I didn’t think the response was adequate – they fobbed me off as if I’d just found a hair in my food. This is so serious," she said."

I actually think finding a hair in the food is more serious than someone not getting the table they want in a restaurant!

I would be annoyed if I'd booked a table in the 'couples area' if there was a child, regardless of age and circumstances!!!
(I'm mother of 4 breastfed children!)

My guess - she got abusive and was then asked to leave. It skips straight from 'getting irritated' to suddenly being told to leave. There are more holes in this story than Swiss cheese.

That is ridiculous!

The restaurant staff sound like twats. It was lunchtime, the table was free, I don’t see the problem with just letting her sit there for a few mins to feed a baby. Maybe she was thinking it would be more comfortable for the other people in the restaurant if she was tucked away a bit? Seems you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t when breastfeeding publicly. No doubt if she whipped her tits out some idiot would have complained.

I have a feeling she was just hard work from the moment she walked in the door and the host probably took against her and didn't want to be accommodating.

If you're nice and sensible, it goes a long way in restaurants.

"I said I didn’t think the response was adequate – they fobbed me off as if I’d just found a hair in my food. This is so serious," she said."

It sounds like she's tried this one in the past too.

I don't think there's actually a couple's area, but it was a table for 2, while she needed a table for 3 or 4. So rather than freeing and cleaning 2 tables for her (one to feed the baby, and one to eat at with her family), they asked her to only use the table for 4, rather than losing business or making people wait. The decision seems justified to me.

Maybe she was thinking it would be more comfortable for the other people in the restaurant if she was tucked away a bit?

That is not the impression I got from the story at all. I can't help thinking she would have made a fuss if they had tucked her away on a small table at the back., claiming they were trying to hide her away. The staff were clearing a table that was suitable for her and her family. She was "angered" and was asked to leave.

I can't help thinking she would have made a fuss if they had tucked her away on a small table at the back., claiming they were trying to hide her away.

You are so right about this.