To think children should be allowed to run around and have fun in McDonalds

[JimmyNail]

It’s a children’s restaurant so children should be allowed to have fun while they eat their meal. Nothing outrageous but things like crawling under our own table, playing a little chase around our table. Not in any way bothering other customers. Being a little loud. Just a bit of fun.

Is this a weird reverse?
If you fancy little timmy being covered in scalding hot tea or coffee then sure let them run about 🙄

I dont want people’s kids crAwling under the table when i eat.
i am so grateful i do not work in hospitality.
again, if your child is injured will you blame yourself or others for allowing them to run around?

What is a reverse?

It's not a 'children's restaurant' there's only about 4 things on the menu for kids. I never let my children go inside one though, they're filthy.

It’s not a “children’s restaurant”.

And 5 and 6 year olds sit for school lunches so they’re hardly incapable of it.

I feel sorry for your kids. If you don't disapline them at 6 to sit down in a restaurant I dread to think where they be as teens.

If it's too hard for you to control your children for the length of time it takes to eat a burger then practise at home first and when you've got it right then go back and get them to stay at the table. Take a colouring book or something.

It is NOT a children's restaurant
I would not want to be sat next to you

When a poster puts up a scenario where they’re telling it from the opposite point of view.

So, in this case, the OP would be the person who thinks it’s unreasonable to let children run riot in MaccyD’s and complained to their parents.

The 5 and 7 year old I am a nanny for have known how to sit nicely in a restaurant since they were toddlers, as has every other child I've looked after, yours are old enough to understand sitting nicely at meal times...parent your kids!
Oh and someone had better tell all the millions of adults that eat at Macdonalds that it's a children's restaurant, don't think they're aware, I certainly wasnt!🤔

It’s not a children’s restaurant- it’s a restaurant that caters for both adults and children🤷🏼‍♀️. I’m having more of an 🤮 at what your children may have been crawling in on the floor…. But, no - running in a restaurant with trays /food/drink is a definite no from my point of view!

Where did you get the idea that McDonald’s is a children’s restaurant? It’s a fast good restaurant - not aimed at children.

i think you might be confusing it with soft play. And even then, you shouldn’t be letting them run around the tables etc (where people have drinks and food); that’s what the play structure is for.

Reverse!

PLease don't reverse. Just say you went to Mac Donald's and the people at the next table had no concept of basic manners and decency, and the kids were running riot. Reverses are boring and irritating

I once took my then preschool daughter probably around 3 at a guess to a harvester for lunch (that’s always packed with kids but I don’t classify it a kids restaurant) she kept getting out of her seat and running off so we paid for our drinks and left, I would never expect patrons to accept that kind of disruptive behaviour. I hold children at school to a much higher standard

@JimmyNail its not hard to get a 5/6 year old to sit down though is it? Just tell them to sit down?

Do they crawl under the table and run around it at home? Or at school?

YABU. It is not a children's restaurant. It's a fast food chain. Do you class all fast food chains as 'children's restaurants', or just McDonald's?

It’s not a children’s restaurant, it’s child friendly. Big difference.

Five and six aren’t toddlers. They’re well old enough to be taught to behave reasonably while in a cafe or restaurant. And it’s not like you’re sitting waiting for food for hours, it’s literally fast food.

If they don’t behave reasonably for their age ie not crawling about on the floor, you leave. They will soon stop.

Sorry but you are v v unreasonable here.

Children's restaurant

And again. Fast food restaurant. There is no such thing in the Uk as a childrens restaurant. And you also very well know that at 5 & 6 the behaviour of the actual diners children is ridiculous. So have your vent and stop the reverse crap. Can guarantee most people with sympathise with you

Children need to learn to behave themselves and do as they are told in a public place.

It really isn’t. 100,000s of kids manage to sit down at school and eat lunch every day. I was certainly expect my 2.5 year old to manage to sit down and eat for 20 mins. I bring books, colouring things and small toys for the table if needed.

I used to work as a Maccys cleaner in my teens and undisciplined children were the band of my existence - wrappers thrown everywhere, chips everywhere except mouths and thrown around, food smashed on tables, weaving around trying to empty bins or carry food while avoiding kids, unidentified sticky smears everywhere, oh I've got to clean that seat after you've let your kid stand on it, kids peeing on the play equipment, and the adults with kids are the absolute worst for leaving all their mess behind with an insincere 'sorryyyy' glance as if them having kids makes me their servant. And after all that, I'd be expected to smile and engage every kid that comes in, blow up balloons for them, run and root through the happy meal boxes because they ALREADY GOT THAT TOY LAST WEEK, and do them kids parties. Absolute nightmare. Gangs of feral teens were a comparative breeze because you can just throw them out.

Where is this McDonalds? I suspect it is located in GoadyMcTroll town.

Shit parenting...