Restaurants are for eating, not playing
Some mothers and fathers seem to think that, when it comes to dining out, ‘family friendly’ means you can check in your parental responsibilities at the front desk
By Les Dunn
A few years ago my wife and I went for Sunday brunch in a ‘family friendly’ south London restaurant. Footloose and child-free, we were ignorant of the implications of that innocent phrase.
Children ran around. Children screamed. Children ran around screaming. One child banged on the wooden floor with a plastic toy, over and over and over again.