/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Kids aren't a protected class, so yes. Dumb idea, though.

>>14953714
Of course it would but if you have a problem with children then maybe don't go to McDonalds and try real restaurants instead and you'll see that there's a lot fewer if any

>>14953714

Your parents should have thrown you down from a cliff.

>>14953714
Protip: Cracker Barrel and Texas Roadhouse both have names that partially deter minorities

>>14953741
If only this were true

>>14953744
It is at cracker barrel but they just have old people as their primary demographic. I will say that the worst state I've ever been to, Virginia, is the world capital for cracker barrel though. They're like Starbucks there.

In a free society you can do whatever you want, but it's likely if you opened a restaurant and set 16+ age restrictions people would complain and you'd lose more business than you'd gain.

>>14953757
Whoa whoa whoa 14+ rich people still need dates anon

>>14953714
It's already legal, although I personally find it difficult to find a restaurant with the balls to ban kids under the age of 5-10. There's already been a few restaurants that became "controversial" in mommy group talks because those restaurants ended up banning children after too many issues/complaints.
TLDR, fuck your crying kids, I shouldn't be subjected to your child's tantrums when I'm out trying to have a quiet meal.

>>14953757
Believe it or not restaurants with a children ban end up with more reservations/more patrons because of such a rule or the controversy behind it.

>>14953714
just go eat at restaurants that serve alcohol

>>14953714
Well, if you would go somewhere else than family-style restaurants or fastfood establisments, you might notice a difference.

And I'm not an american, so I really have no clue would it be legally possible to ban kids in your business, but since 'muricans are pretty free-spirited with the whole independent entrepreneur thing, I would imagine this being a possibility.

But if you do that - by which I mean you ban kids - I bet you'll just end up having a bar with bar food. I don't think its good for your businesses image to state loudly and prodly that your place does not ''tolerate any kids''. In my experience people are pretty aware of their surroundings, so if you have somewhat nice, comfortable, stylish, yet not too uptight restaurant setting, people usually tend to leave their kids back at home, if they're the sort that can't behave.

>>14953714
>I hate it when they carry on+run amuck while I'm trying eat.
probably darkies.

When I was little and it wasn't considered abuse to make your children behave. my mother would grab an arm dig her long sharp fingernails in to your flesh and whisper some dire threat in my ear that if I did not behave horrible things awaited me in the parking lot.

it worked very well.