to think that some parents are just lazy and inconsiderate?

[LentilsRMe]

We went for tea yesterday at Wagamamas.

There was a family behind us, including 2 children - about 2 and 4 maybe.

I looked round after they had left and under the table they had left food, crayons, paper and two empty juice cartons.

I was a bit that they just left without even picking this all up off the floor.

Surely I am NBU?

YANBU in that I wouldn't leave items like drinks cartons and crayons on the floor.

On the other hand, my one year old always gets quite a bit of food on the floor and everywhere else. I always clean the highchair and table and generally ask for a dustpan and brush to clean the floor up. The staff always say not to worry and TBH I would be a bit if they actually wanted me to clean the restaurant floor!

Keralala Sure THEY have the brush, you YOU have the ability to use it, or at least offer!

YANBU. A small bit of food I wouldn't pick up, but anything else I would.

Cleaningsucks - totally agree with you. The 'I pay therefore I get to treat everyone and everything like crap' culture is getting a well-deserved boot up the backside.

Oh for heavens sake! it just a bit of rubbish! its the restaurants job, duty, responsibility to do it...not to watch cack handed parents make a shambles of clearing it up to sooth their consciences! I'd always much rather someone apologised and left so it could be dealt with efficiently...

It think it may be a question of wanting to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Unless staff see there has been a bit of a food fight, because it has been wiped up(and germs spread) it will not have been properly dealt with, and slips and germs are all around...

dont be daft,expecting them to clear up undertable in noodlebar.debris falls on floor,staff sweep away not customers

And I do get that is is our responsibility to show the way to our dcs, but this family's kids were two and four...god knows mum deserves a medal for leaving the house with them at all...

ah, SM, at last, a voice of reason!

what next dyson in handbag for wee accidents,spare mop when eating out

A medal? Don't get that at all, sorry.

am loving the dyson look, so much fun watching those noodles whirl around! Next seasons must have accessory perhap?

well, janeite, perhaps it only me that finds multiple small children in restaurants a tad challenging on occasion, but I am sure that is my failing

coshh, and other H&S prohibits public handling cleaning fluids etc in noodlebar

(apologies SM, I know you don't like brackets!)

over zealous mammy scrabbling under table cleaning hardly ambient when eating out

leave it to staff

I work in a cafe ...some parents clean up some don't ...I don't mind either way I usually tell them to leave it ...Like SM says I would have to go clean up afterwards anyway put wet floor sign out etc

exactly. No fun for anyone to watch.

LOL i like mirth factor of hyper-mammy cleaning.shouting scuse me.arse in air picking up debris.tutting i suspect

These parents aren't necessarily lazy and inconsiderate - when you've got two little ones under 5 sometimes if something kicks off you just need to cut your losses and run. If the choice is picking up food on the floor while your child has a paddy, upsetting other diners, I'd make a hasty exit stage left every time.

yeah, but SM, Hyper Mammy would never have allowed the wee uns to drop a crumb, surely?

My dt's are 1 and blw, they make a hell of a mess (and ds2 isn't that tidy either). DP and I always ask for a brush to clean it up and staff nearly always refuse. We will still always ask though, twould be rude of us not to. And we do some tidying before we go anyway. I do feel kinda ashamed of how piggy they are tbh but doesn't stop me eating out!

I'd never leave a restaurant/cafe table like that. I wipe up any mess and leave the table tidy. Some people just dn't care & they set a bad example to thier kids. How can it be acceptable to leave rubbish on the floor?

hypermammy,yes her children they inhale food - never drop crumbs,or squawk and she always has handy dyson in her cath kidston

wonder if hypermammy posted on kim cleaning thread

mybox and accessorize, because you are doing more harm than good! by all means apologise, but dont waste everyones time trying to make good the mess. Its annoying, and slows service down.

how excruciating another diner fannying around trying to clean up

scuse me...........

can i have mop, yellow hazard sign,brush, pan, some coshh training (and sign declaration showing ability to handle cleaning fluids)

oh scuse me..............

mind your feet
whoopsie where's my children

behave- you are eating out dont be such a martyr no one expects cleaning debris,getting under table etc