No More Babies: Children Six And Under Banned From Restaurant

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Babies. Can't. Be. Trusted. Not on Airplanes, not in bars and most certainly not in restaurants. They have no need to travel first class to Hong Kong for business, unwind at the local watering hole after a stressful day of work or eat cornish game hen. They should stay at home in their playpens eating smashed peas and their own boogers. If we let babies roam free, this will surely happen:

At least this is what the owner of one restaurant thinks. Mike Vuick, owner of McDains, a restaurant SLASH golf center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, decided to ban children under the age of six from dining at his fine establishment. He informed his customers of the change via email.

"Beginning July 16, 2011 McDain's Restaurant will no longer admit children under 6 years of age. We feel that McDain's is not a place for young children. Their volume can't be controlled and many, many times they have disturbed other customers."

Believe it or not, I have been to McDains, and it is nothing to write home about. I could maybe understand putting the hammer down on the child thing if it was an upscale, fine dining experience with fancy food shit that kids would despise, but that simply isn't the case with McDains. This is the kind of place where one would not be surprised to see paper tablecloths for children to scrawl on.

Sorry children aren't born with mute buttons, McDain's. And what about the other douche bags that disrupt my dinner? Can you also ban the couple sitting next to me practically shouting their conversations to one another? Or how about the dickhole that decided the middle of a restaurant would be the best location to duke it out with his landlord via cell phone?

I think McDain's has taken it a bit too far. No babies in bars, understandable. They don't need to booze it up, (unless of course they're teething). But babies still need to eat, dudes.

[Via Gawker]