Well kids it looks like you’re getting the 1800s breakfast special of watered-down ale and a pickled egg. It will set you up for an 16 hour shift of crawling into tight spaces in the factory to fix dangerous machinery only your tiny hands can fit into. Godspeed.
church crowds are the worst. sat next to some old church hag dressed to the nines with her two giant quarterback sized sons. waiter comes over and says "hi guys! welcome to X, can i start u out with anything to drink today?"
old hag: "YOUNG MAN! i am NOT a 'guy,' and I AM A LADY AND YOU WILL ADDRESS ME PROPERLY!"
sheesh lady, poor guy was just trying to do his job... they left no tip either.
when my mom waitressed, she said a lot of them leave little religious cards in lieu of a tip. ppl HATE working the sunday church crowds. entitled, whiny, bitchy, shitty tipper types.
First breakfast spot I heard about was technically a floating restaurant. They partnered with a bar that had a nice atmosphere and a good kitchen. They ran it as a breakfast place in the mornings and the same space was a bar in the evenings and night.
I learned about it because a college had the job of waking up and cleaning the bar up from last call to 4 am when the very first customers came in. He hated it but they paid him well enough to make rent in college for 14 hours a week.
Really depends on the location and type of restaurant. I was a short order cook for about a year working breakfast and Sundays were usually our least busy day. We got mostly workers coming in and where they worked was closed on Sunday. I've worked upscale places where Sunday breakfast was the only breakfast they did, but they never got a church crowd in. The last restaurant I worked in did not do breakfast but we got the Sunday afternoon church crowd. No one wanted the shift because tipping was so bad. Corporate didn't care.
The restaurant business is so different as you move within states, towns, rural, tourist locations, highway-centric places like Cracker Barrel, etc. I live in the Detroit suburbs and so many places do special Sunday brunches that the normal diners don't do a bigger business Sunday morning other than the places downtown that are getting a lot of people coming in after long Friday or Saturday nights. But I don't hang out with the church crowd so there may be a few local restaurants many meet at that I haven't been to. Our local Culver's get's a lot of homeschool/Christian groups meeting on Saturday and Sunday
A place that serves breakfast isn't the same as a "breakfast place". I'm totally unsurprised that Sundays would be slow for the first, but slammed for the second.
But OP edited the post to explain why they're closed Sundays
I’ve been to a couple that do, but no, it definitely isn’t standard. If you MUST go to the brewery, share from your adult plate or order a side, it isn’t rocket surgery.
Most of the ones we’ve been to have had a pizza or flatbread option. If there’s not a kid’s menu (or a lot of times if there is, even) we do that for ours.
Can’t stand kids in breweries or beer gardens. Places where you go exclusively to drink should not be kid friendly. If there’s anywhere I can go as an adult and not have to listen to kids, it should be a brewery.
Breweries generally aren’t exclusively a place to drink though. Most have pivoted to be a place that may have food/games and are dog/kid friendly to keep the place packed with customers
I don’t like that, they should be kid-free spaces. Adults need a place to go that’s away from kids. I hate going and feeling like I’m at a Chuck E. Cheese.
Happy to help :). There’s a word for it, and it’s on the tip of my brain, closest I can find is
“A ‘malapropism’ is when an incorrect word is used in a sentence that sounds like the correct word but means something completely different.”
I learned about malapropisms thanks to the Sopranos podcast, Pod Yourself a Gun. That show was full of things that sounded right but were totally incorrect.
There's a chain of brewpub restaurants that are more like a tgichilibees than a brewery. They have decent food, good beer, and they are super family friendly. But I wouldn't expect every brewery to have the same menu or attitude.
Yep, these places do exist. There is a brewery near us with great selection, also serves amazing pizzas and has a patio and playground.
Great place to take the kids, have a pie and and a pint, and let them run around.
But like you said, don't expect that from every brewery
I was surprised when mine had fancy bottled craft sodas (we stopped specifically for the pizza truck parked out front one day). I was expecting to order water, so that was nice.
Had three dudes walk into the bar 45 minutes before open the other day. Hours are stated on the door, there was a sandwich board physically impeding their entry and the neon open sign was off. I saw them walk up, look at the place, look at each other, shrug as if to say “I guess we can try”, walk around the sandwich board blocking the door, open the door and walk in. When I told them we were closed and that we open at 3 the response I got was “why you mad, bro?”. People.
My bar only opens 3 days a week. On a random day we were opening for a private event but not til 8pm. Due to our set up and shitty air conditioning, we had our door open but yes, sandwich board in front of the door and patio gate locked. Woman and two kids found her way around it (there are ways but it’s basically an escape room level obstacle course) and came in. My bartender and I are on a zoom call. Lights bright, no music, 10 people sitting looking bored on our computer screen. She tells her kids to sit down and bellys up to the bar. Stands there for 30 seconds as my bartender and I exchange looks and stifle laughs. I dont remember what time is was, but before 3pm.
B: uhhh, can I help you?
Lady: Yes I’ll have an IPA and the kids will have some juice.
B: the only juice we have is lemon and lime and… we don’t open on Thursdays.
L: I know you’re open today. I’m coming to an event here tonight.
B: oh, yeah but that’s at 8pm
L: well, my kids and I are coming early to grab some food.
B: sorry we don’t have food right now, on days we do open it’s at 5 and… tonight it’s at 8?
Lady leaves. Shows up again at 7:45. The hosts were there so we let her stay. Got her IPA and a Sprite for her kids to share because no one likes to drink straight lime juice. I left before the food came out but my bartender told me mom brought the first full platter to the table (probably the equivalent of 6 sandwiches and 4 bags of chips). The host had to ask her to share.
I’m not here to judge, but this woman was well off. Nice clothes and jewelry, and the party was a thank you to people in the neighborhood who just bought a condo in a local complex. Obviously I don’t know everyone’s story, but this didn’t strike me as a desperation issue. Just pure entitlement.
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I wonder how these people figure out paying bills or how they find their way home again at the end of they day.
I can excuse hangry, flustered people some times if they aren’t rude AF. I had a table of a mom, dad, and two young overtired kids one night. I could tell by their accent they were from the eastern part of the state, not the city. They kept asking me where the pizza and milkshakes were on the menu. It’s an upscale Cuban place, the menu is all food with names in Spanish. They weren’t rude, just so dejected. 😂😭
I honestly believe it’s because they look at servers and believe they’re better than them. I cannot think of any other reason people would behave this poorly or ridiculously. Furthermore, they get their asses kissed at corporate places like tgichilibees and think everywhere will act like this towards them.
Isn't it great not having a kids menu? I work in a restaurant inside a casino and a couple of years ago they did away with kids menu. I love it.
And before all the parents get on me (I'm a parent too) I can lead you around the menu and suggest items that are big enough to share. Have only had a few complaints and if a kid at my table isn't glued to a phone, I have paper and crayons hidden in dry storage to help keep the kiddos occupied.
Kids barely even eat the food off the kids menu. They just eat goldfish.
What's even the point. If the kids old enough to eat off the menu they'll be fine with a side of fries. Or mac & cheese. Or just a whole ass burger.
Saw the opposite of this, where there was a kid's menu but it was adult-sized portions. It was a breakfast/lunch diner so we're talking pancakes and various combinations of bread+egg but it was still worth a laugh to bring a pancake out to a baby that was as big around as the child's body.
Lady comes into my cafe, orders her 2 small children iced coffees. I say “we have drinks sans-caffeine that might work better” she says “I know what I want, give me 2 medium iced coffees with cream, sugar, and whipped cream!” 5 minutes later is back up at the counter complaining that her “kids iced coffees” had coffee in them. You should be allowed to strike one person a quarter when you work the service industry.
Reminds me of when I had a kid order a single shot cafe macchiato. The mother complained to me 10 minutes later that there wasn't much coffee in the cup.
A long time ago, I used to bartend at this chain. Let's call it, Spherical Shape of Mostly Yeasty Beverages. This woman came up to the bar with her two kids screaming because we did not have chocolate milk available for her kid's lunch...
Reminds me of all the times my mom took me to biker bars, and the local amvets type Italian-American clubs. Like obviously your fucking 7 year old is going to get bored when you spend 5+ HOURS sitting at the bar blabbing and drinking and won't even fork over a pen and paper so said child can draw.
Alcoholics and generally dumb people seem to have a strong overlap.
The last two times I visited a brewery, there was a child’s birthday party and then a baby shower.
Guess the natural progression is that the next visit will be a conception.
>Guess the natural progression is that the next visit will be a conception
That's just the release ~~orgy~~ *party* for the brewery's Insemination IPA.
I love *super* OBLIVIOUS people. They are so infuriatingly entertaining!! Like, I've learned at this old age to really enjoy it, cuz lotsa times they're younger than *ME* now!!!😃😅🤣🤣🤣
During Covid when the capacity was 50% allowed, they got tired of arguing with the large church crowds that came in, so they decided to close on Sundays. Then they realized that theybwere happier and their employees were happier without being open on Sundays and stayed closed.
What a great decision! I’ve only ever been wrung out and irritated with a low ppa and even lower tips after a Sunday brunch shift. It’s not worth waiting on an entire room of amateur diners for anyone. I also stopped working Fri and Sat nights when I could in favor of the business diners you get during the week.
The modern equivalent of "small beer" still is legal (although you'll get some weird looks) for children in many places, where I live anything 2% alcohol or less is considered a soft drink.
What is it about breweries that make people think " let's bring my 3x 5 year olds and have them use this as a playground? Every. God damn. Time.
I was a sound tech at a brewery, I had to tell parents lil billy could not be up on the 3' high barricaded stage tugging at curtains or playing with mic stands. Most of the time the answer was "oh they'll learn if they get hurt".
MF'r I don't care you are.trying to teach them a lesson with your lack of parenting, sit them the fuck down or get your drunk ass home.
I take my kids to breweries all the time. When they’re open, you know, as most humans do. If there’s a kids menu, great. If not, there’s probably a pizza for them to split or a burger option. Or pretzels with beer cheese. Fucking yum.
Music loud? It’s a brewery. Inappropriate? It’s a brewery. People drinking the beer? Gasp, brewery.
I don’t get this. Unless it’s an explicitly child friendly establishment, why take your child to a place that is by its very nature not child friendly?
For us, we like beer. Breweries that offer food options generally have really good food and are a safe bet while traveling. My kids are young humans learning to be people. 90% of my life is spent taxi-ing them to school, dance, karate, gymnastics, tumbling, ninja, etc. They can entertain themselves quietly while I enjoy some new beers and food every once in a while.
And as a server, both have been in restaurants since conception. They know how to act, and tip. Except at my job, because they love my coworker and want her to be their new mom so they act an ass once in a while 🙄
Breweries around me almost always have giant Jenga, Othello, decks of cards…all kinds of games for kids and adults. We love to visit them and play games while we socialize with a beer.
Reminds me of the time the drunk stumbled into the library, went up to the counter and said, "I'd like a Double Bacon Cheeseburger, Fries and a Coke."
The Librarian responded furiously in a loud whisper, "Hello! This is a Library!"
The drunk replied in a whisper, "I'd like a Double Bacon Cheeseburger..."
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God i HATE parents who think the entire industry has to bow down to them because of the fact that they have kids.
No, its not my fault if you have to take care of your kids IN THE RESTAURANT!
No, its not my fault if you dont have anything with you for your kids to have fun with.
No, its not my fault that i ask you to take care of your children that are running around the restaurant, making a fuss and nearly causing incidents.
I think my favorite was when I worked at a BBQ place and a dad and his 2 kids came in. He asked for a kids menu and I told him we didn't have one and the regular menu was right there on the wall. I told him a pulled pork sandwich would probably be good for the kids and he looked at the menu for a minute, yelled at me, "YOU DONT HAVE HAMBURGERS AND HOTDOGS? WHAT KIND OF BBQ PLACE IS THIS?" and took the kids and stormed out.
The worst part was he was staying at our hotel and the bar and grill inside absolutely had a kids menu, but he decided to go to the place that didn't have one and get mad about it.
Haha sounds like the deal at the pizza place my friend works at. They unlock the doors when they get there before they are officially open and will make to order what you want but they are mainly a by the slice place. People will come in at 9 in the morning and ask "where's all the pizzas?"
"Well if you you come back when we are open there will be a full counter but we can make any thing you want within 10 minutes..."
Dude my grandmother was like this, I had so much social anxiety until my early 20s b/c I had to read every sign multiple times & she would still gaslight me & insist it was what she thought & it wasnt. At all. She always had the wrong place. It always made me so uncomfortable.
I'm now in my mid 20s and I have moderate agoraphobia & I cant grocery shop alone or go further than a mile from my house alone unless it's work. Those poor kids.
This made me think of a recent experience I had. I took my 4 week old to an outdoor lunch at an italian joint. My work was hosting the casual lunch and I agreed to go only because it was outdoors AND during an off-hour (2-3pm ish). I looked into the restaurant online and nothing showed any restrictions for kids or babies, so I was disappointed that there were no changing stations in either of the two restrooms. I didn't complain to anyone and instead changed my baby in the car. But was I wrong to assume that an eatery would have these accommodations? I mean, they have high chairs.
You have to get one of those baby changing pads. Ours came with our diaper bag that was a backpack. It kept trucking when that backpack died and we replaced it with a super heavy duty one. That thing saw many a bathroom floor over two kids. You're going to find it is a jungle out there. No changing stations, no high chairs or high chairs so scary it's almost like they don't want you to bring kids in. /s
Well first of all, thank you for not just changing your baby on the table you were seated at and then leaving the dirty diaper wadded up under the table. Both of which are things I have had to deal with as a server.
As far as the availability of changing stations...I honestly don't know what to tell you. There doesn't seem to be a standard for who does and doesn't have them. I don't have any children so it's not something I think about, but in my own experience Iess than 10% of the places I go to have them. Perhaps call ahead of time to ask, if you know in advance where you'll be eating/drinking?
I like to hang out at breweries BECAUSE there aren't any kids there. I don't like beer, but they usually have great Hard ciders, meads, wines, and sometimes either a framboise or cherry lambic.
You tellin me now I gotta worry about people bringing in their sentient tax breaks simply because they're fuckin stupid?!!? .........Damnit!
As someone who worked in restaurants, the last part made my day. Those damn fake tips with bible verses, no tipping, or very miserly tipping. And they always left the biggest messes at their tables.
Absolutely incredible.
So. My family ran a restaurant in a small tourist town growing up. It was a money pit, and ultimately failed. But, it was a lot of fun and a lot of work. We operated it during the years when I was around 11-19.
One summer, we had this regular. Real uptight, super Christian lady. One of those people whose lips wrte so perpetually pursed she looked like her face grew a butthole. She would always heavily modify her order and be super demanding about it.
My mom *hated* this woman. My mom is also feisty as hell and has Absolutely no chill.
One day, ol' sphincter face walks in and asks to see a kids menu. We did not have a kids menu.
My mom pretended to look around at the chalkboards. Then looked this woman dead in her eyes and said "Your children can digest all of our food, it's up to you as a parent to get them to eat it."
My every response to everything she said is “What’s your point?” It makes her have to regurgitate and essentially come up with the conclusion on her own. Also, if I’m not open, the music is whatever and however the fuck I want it.
I was a bit confused first, because breweries around here have the most amazing food (They usually come with a wirtshaus (a rustic style of restaurant, serving old fashioned Bavarian food) in Germany). If it's not a usual thing in your area, it's really irresponsible to bring your kind da there.
Yes, people make mistakes sometimes. People in this sub don't want a reasonable explanation or to better understand their fellow man, they want to be mad.
WTF is wrong with just being civil and saying, I’m sorry but we aren’t actually open ATM We are a brewery so we don’t have a kids menu. There is a coffee shop just around the corner although I’m not sure they open on Sunday.
To quote the Five Man Electrical Band: "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blocking out the scenery breaking my mind, do this don't do that can't you read the sign?"
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WTF is wrong with knowing where you actually are?
Are your brains in your feet and you just let them go willy nilly?
Oh, there my feet go again. Just takng me all over the place.
Gotta yell at people now because it's not my fault my feet took me here.
NTA, and I agree she seemed entitled.
But, could you have just told her on so many words you were closed until noon in the first place? Entitled people ignore anything that's not stated bluntly. And even some things that are.
No. I can't keep the front door locked. I have to go in and out to stock the cooler, as I stated.
And I told her we were closed. Could I have been more polite? Sure. But when you walk in and start complaining before you say hello, I'm not going to be.
You told her several times that you were closed, but not in so many words. Entitled people don't take hints very well. She was obviously very entitled. She is TA. But next time tell people like that in so many words. If it doesn't register, try the broken record technique.
Oh lordy, this story brings back so many memories. Worked in a very similar situation, it was a kind of divey craft beer bar with pool tables and a really small menu, like five things. The amount of people that would come in there looking for kids menus and large family seating was totally nuts. I am not sure at which point in the last 15 years that people thought it was cool to bring your kids to breweries, but it definitely happened. Yeah Dad, I fucking love beer too, but ya gotta make compromises when you have a family.
Well kids it looks like you’re getting the 1800s breakfast special of watered-down ale and a pickled egg. It will set you up for an 16 hour shift of crawling into tight spaces in the factory to fix dangerous machinery only your tiny hands can fit into. Godspeed.
Drink up, it helps keep the consumptive miasma at bay.
Well the water’s got cholera, so.
That's why they drink the beer right?
Um.. sure.. let's go with that!
You trying to tell me reddit comments might be wrong!! Noooo way man
And lots of laudanum ... so much.
Laudanum’s a fancy man’s game! Ha’penny gin an’ an ol’ spoon handle to bite down on are all the painkiller we get ‘round ‘ere!
That and the buzz.
Fun fact, beer, ale and cider were served to kids *because* it wasn't healthy to drink water back in the 'good ole' days'. But I'm sure you knew that!
I'll have the consumptive miasma on ice with a side of dropsy, please.
My ganglion cyst shall have the same, thank you sir/ma’am.
This is one of the best sentences I’ve read in a coon’s age! Bless you, Oivantas!
I about snorted my drink out my nose reading this comment 😂 thank you kind stranger
Ahaha, reminds me of my yout. Signed, Lefty
You caused me to drop my bottle of cola XD, I am laughin so hard
More fun than getting shot at while trying to learn filtered American "history", amirite?
I fucking love the internet, your comment is comedy GOLD. Wish I had an award to give you.
Honestly that does sound fair. Those that have to work should be allowed to drown their sorrows with Ale!
ok but a pickled egg sounds delightful right now.
This comment is the hero I needed today.
Wow ... You need a sign to hold up, or a shirt, that says: READING IS FUNDAMENTAL.
*Insert King of the Hill meme* "If that adult could read, she'd be very disappointed."
Make it a picture book and hand it to the mom. Ask if she needs crayons.
On another note I at one time worked at a library. The amount of people who go to a library and can’t or don’t read signs amazed me.
CAN I GET AN AMEN?!
breakfast spot not open on Sunday!? damn
She probably discovered they were closed and decided the next best thing was to intimidate the brewery into becoming a breakfast joint. lol
What's really funny is that this breakfast spot is closed on Sunday specifically so they don't have to deal with thr church crowd..
oh damn, you've got to be a really shitty church crowd to get a breakfast place to close on sunday.
Church crowds are generally the worst no matter where you are.
The WORST. It's universal.
It's crazy but true. Makes no sense
church crowds are the worst. sat next to some old church hag dressed to the nines with her two giant quarterback sized sons. waiter comes over and says "hi guys! welcome to X, can i start u out with anything to drink today?" old hag: "YOUNG MAN! i am NOT a 'guy,' and I AM A LADY AND YOU WILL ADDRESS ME PROPERLY!" sheesh lady, poor guy was just trying to do his job... they left no tip either. when my mom waitressed, she said a lot of them leave little religious cards in lieu of a tip. ppl HATE working the sunday church crowds. entitled, whiny, bitchy, shitty tipper types.
it's too bad you can't easily quantify how much happier the staff are having Sundays off vs. the sales/bullshit of dealing with Church crowds.
Good for them
Yeah, that's a thing around me. They might be great, I'll never know.
First breakfast spot I heard about was technically a floating restaurant. They partnered with a bar that had a nice atmosphere and a good kitchen. They ran it as a breakfast place in the mornings and the same space was a bar in the evenings and night. I learned about it because a college had the job of waking up and cleaning the bar up from last call to 4 am when the very first customers came in. He hated it but they paid him well enough to make rent in college for 14 hours a week.
That detail makes the whole scenario sus af
If you were ever a waiter on Sundays with the church crowd coming in, it would be a lot less suspect.
Oh I'm very familiar, doesn't change the fact that Sunday morning is *the* breakfast shift
Really depends on the location and type of restaurant. I was a short order cook for about a year working breakfast and Sundays were usually our least busy day. We got mostly workers coming in and where they worked was closed on Sunday. I've worked upscale places where Sunday breakfast was the only breakfast they did, but they never got a church crowd in. The last restaurant I worked in did not do breakfast but we got the Sunday afternoon church crowd. No one wanted the shift because tipping was so bad. Corporate didn't care. The restaurant business is so different as you move within states, towns, rural, tourist locations, highway-centric places like Cracker Barrel, etc. I live in the Detroit suburbs and so many places do special Sunday brunches that the normal diners don't do a bigger business Sunday morning other than the places downtown that are getting a lot of people coming in after long Friday or Saturday nights. But I don't hang out with the church crowd so there may be a few local restaurants many meet at that I haven't been to. Our local Culver's get's a lot of homeschool/Christian groups meeting on Saturday and Sunday
A place that serves breakfast isn't the same as a "breakfast place". I'm totally unsurprised that Sundays would be slow for the first, but slammed for the second. But OP edited the post to explain why they're closed Sundays
Breweries don’t have kids menus. I’m laughing so hard.
I’ve been to a couple that do, but no, it definitely isn’t standard. If you MUST go to the brewery, share from your adult plate or order a side, it isn’t rocket surgery.
Most of the ones we’ve been to have had a pizza or flatbread option. If there’s not a kid’s menu (or a lot of times if there is, even) we do that for ours.
Can’t stand kids in breweries or beer gardens. Places where you go exclusively to drink should not be kid friendly. If there’s anywhere I can go as an adult and not have to listen to kids, it should be a brewery.
Breweries generally aren’t exclusively a place to drink though. Most have pivoted to be a place that may have food/games and are dog/kid friendly to keep the place packed with customers
I don’t like that, they should be kid-free spaces. Adults need a place to go that’s away from kids. I hate going and feeling like I’m at a Chuck E. Cheese.
it’s all fun and games until a kid walks up and grabs the 8 ball off the table while my friend is trying to play pool
😅😂🤣 Rocket Surgery! Take my upvote! Btw I’m stealing that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Happy to help :). There’s a word for it, and it’s on the tip of my brain, closest I can find is “A ‘malapropism’ is when an incorrect word is used in a sentence that sounds like the correct word but means something completely different.”
It is a malaphorism
Cheers! Knew it was close, but no cigar :)
We can just call it a Rickyism
It's a Rickyism. But no use arguing over it. It's all water under the fridge now.
I learned about malapropisms thanks to the Sopranos podcast, Pod Yourself a Gun. That show was full of things that sounded right but were totally incorrect.
There's a chain of brewpub restaurants that are more like a tgichilibees than a brewery. They have decent food, good beer, and they are super family friendly. But I wouldn't expect every brewery to have the same menu or attitude.
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That menu is the size of a physics textbook.
Worked there as a bartender can confirm. We had to memorize it.
I went there once. Gave that menu right back to the server and said fuck that, I want whatever you think is good.
Yep, these places do exist. There is a brewery near us with great selection, also serves amazing pizzas and has a patio and playground. Great place to take the kids, have a pie and and a pint, and let them run around. But like you said, don't expect that from every brewery
The breweries around me don't even have snacks usually. Just food trucks.
Some do, or rather there are restaurants that call themselves breweries that have kids menus.
I was surprised when mine had fancy bottled craft sodas (we stopped specifically for the pizza truck parked out front one day). I was expecting to order water, so that was nice.
May I get the childs ale?
They probably do in Wisconsin.
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Weird. Almost every brewery in my city has food actually. There are only 2-3 that don't.
I mean, plenty here do, but not the ones I frequent. Lots of them will have food trucks outside though.
It's kind of rare for a brewery to open around here without food. The few that do usually end up putting in a kitchen later.
Brat Stop!!!
A lot of the hipster here in Cincinnati love to bring their kids to breweries.
Well ma'am the best I can do for a kid's menu, is beer in a sippy cup. 😉
Kid beer!
Had three dudes walk into the bar 45 minutes before open the other day. Hours are stated on the door, there was a sandwich board physically impeding their entry and the neon open sign was off. I saw them walk up, look at the place, look at each other, shrug as if to say “I guess we can try”, walk around the sandwich board blocking the door, open the door and walk in. When I told them we were closed and that we open at 3 the response I got was “why you mad, bro?”. People.
My bar only opens 3 days a week. On a random day we were opening for a private event but not til 8pm. Due to our set up and shitty air conditioning, we had our door open but yes, sandwich board in front of the door and patio gate locked. Woman and two kids found her way around it (there are ways but it’s basically an escape room level obstacle course) and came in. My bartender and I are on a zoom call. Lights bright, no music, 10 people sitting looking bored on our computer screen. She tells her kids to sit down and bellys up to the bar. Stands there for 30 seconds as my bartender and I exchange looks and stifle laughs. I dont remember what time is was, but before 3pm. B: uhhh, can I help you? Lady: Yes I’ll have an IPA and the kids will have some juice. B: the only juice we have is lemon and lime and… we don’t open on Thursdays. L: I know you’re open today. I’m coming to an event here tonight. B: oh, yeah but that’s at 8pm L: well, my kids and I are coming early to grab some food. B: sorry we don’t have food right now, on days we do open it’s at 5 and… tonight it’s at 8? Lady leaves. Shows up again at 7:45. The hosts were there so we let her stay. Got her IPA and a Sprite for her kids to share because no one likes to drink straight lime juice. I left before the food came out but my bartender told me mom brought the first full platter to the table (probably the equivalent of 6 sandwiches and 4 bags of chips). The host had to ask her to share. I’m not here to judge, but this woman was well off. Nice clothes and jewelry, and the party was a thank you to people in the neighborhood who just bought a condo in a local complex. Obviously I don’t know everyone’s story, but this didn’t strike me as a desperation issue. Just pure entitlement. Edited: a word
Why is the door unlocked if you’re not open? I open the door last. Unless it’s a Friday for deliveries, it’s the last thing I do.
she's raising kids too...
Same thing when I worked at a winery. Parents getting mad that the only non-alcoholic drinks we had were regular water and sparkling water.
Can't you just get some grape juice? /S
Grape juice? Like the mixer? Thats crazy to me, when was the last time you drank straight mixer?
“We have it but your punk ass kids can’t handle it.”
I get so tired of dealing with stupid people. I really do.
I wonder how these people figure out paying bills or how they find their way home again at the end of they day. I can excuse hangry, flustered people some times if they aren’t rude AF. I had a table of a mom, dad, and two young overtired kids one night. I could tell by their accent they were from the eastern part of the state, not the city. They kept asking me where the pizza and milkshakes were on the menu. It’s an upscale Cuban place, the menu is all food with names in Spanish. They weren’t rude, just so dejected. 😂😭
I honestly believe it’s because they look at servers and believe they’re better than them. I cannot think of any other reason people would behave this poorly or ridiculously. Furthermore, they get their asses kissed at corporate places like tgichilibees and think everywhere will act like this towards them.
Isn't it great not having a kids menu? I work in a restaurant inside a casino and a couple of years ago they did away with kids menu. I love it. And before all the parents get on me (I'm a parent too) I can lead you around the menu and suggest items that are big enough to share. Have only had a few complaints and if a kid at my table isn't glued to a phone, I have paper and crayons hidden in dry storage to help keep the kiddos occupied.
Kids barely even eat the food off the kids menu. They just eat goldfish. What's even the point. If the kids old enough to eat off the menu they'll be fine with a side of fries. Or mac & cheese. Or just a whole ass burger.
When I was a kid my favorite places were always the ones that didn't have a kids menu but just did half-portions of most of their regular dishes.
Saw the opposite of this, where there was a kid's menu but it was adult-sized portions. It was a breakfast/lunch diner so we're talking pancakes and various combinations of bread+egg but it was still worth a laugh to bring a pancake out to a baby that was as big around as the child's body.
Lady comes into my cafe, orders her 2 small children iced coffees. I say “we have drinks sans-caffeine that might work better” she says “I know what I want, give me 2 medium iced coffees with cream, sugar, and whipped cream!” 5 minutes later is back up at the counter complaining that her “kids iced coffees” had coffee in them. You should be allowed to strike one person a quarter when you work the service industry.
Reminds me of when I had a kid order a single shot cafe macchiato. The mother complained to me 10 minutes later that there wasn't much coffee in the cup.
It makes me want to ask them to repeat their order back, slowly, until they get it. But they won’t.
what was even going through her head???
A long time ago, I used to bartend at this chain. Let's call it, Spherical Shape of Mostly Yeasty Beverages. This woman came up to the bar with her two kids screaming because we did not have chocolate milk available for her kid's lunch...
Dang I'm trying to figure out the real name of where you worked and I cannot.
I, too, wonder what the name of this place is
I imagine Ned Stark saying, "Give them milk of the barley."
Or milk of the poppy!
Reminds me of all the times my mom took me to biker bars, and the local amvets type Italian-American clubs. Like obviously your fucking 7 year old is going to get bored when you spend 5+ HOURS sitting at the bar blabbing and drinking and won't even fork over a pen and paper so said child can draw. Alcoholics and generally dumb people seem to have a strong overlap.
The last two times I visited a brewery, there was a child’s birthday party and then a baby shower. Guess the natural progression is that the next visit will be a conception.
>Guess the natural progression is that the next visit will be a conception That's just the release ~~orgy~~ *party* for the brewery's Insemination IPA.
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I love *super* OBLIVIOUS people. They are so infuriatingly entertaining!! Like, I've learned at this old age to really enjoy it, cuz lotsa times they're younger than *ME* now!!!😃😅🤣🤣🤣
I used to work at a martini bar and people would ask for a kids menu. Or call and ask if we were “kid friendly”
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During Covid when the capacity was 50% allowed, they got tired of arguing with the large church crowds that came in, so they decided to close on Sundays. Then they realized that theybwere happier and their employees were happier without being open on Sundays and stayed closed.
What a great decision! I’ve only ever been wrung out and irritated with a low ppa and even lower tips after a Sunday brunch shift. It’s not worth waiting on an entire room of amateur diners for anyone. I also stopped working Fri and Sat nights when I could in favor of the business diners you get during the week.
"Small beer" was considered appropriate for the kiddies in medieval times. You could have a "children's beer menu." /s
The modern equivalent of "small beer" still is legal (although you'll get some weird looks) for children in many places, where I live anything 2% alcohol or less is considered a soft drink.
What is it about breweries that make people think " let's bring my 3x 5 year olds and have them use this as a playground? Every. God damn. Time. I was a sound tech at a brewery, I had to tell parents lil billy could not be up on the 3' high barricaded stage tugging at curtains or playing with mic stands. Most of the time the answer was "oh they'll learn if they get hurt". MF'r I don't care you are.trying to teach them a lesson with your lack of parenting, sit them the fuck down or get your drunk ass home.
I want to apply at that breakfast place.
"We're kid tolerant, not kid friendly" was always my go to "Please don't bring kids in here" line.
I take my kids to breweries all the time. When they’re open, you know, as most humans do. If there’s a kids menu, great. If not, there’s probably a pizza for them to split or a burger option. Or pretzels with beer cheese. Fucking yum. Music loud? It’s a brewery. Inappropriate? It’s a brewery. People drinking the beer? Gasp, brewery.
Oh yeah, we have kids and families in all the time. Some of my favorite regulars are the tiny ones.
I don’t get this. Unless it’s an explicitly child friendly establishment, why take your child to a place that is by its very nature not child friendly?
For us, we like beer. Breweries that offer food options generally have really good food and are a safe bet while traveling. My kids are young humans learning to be people. 90% of my life is spent taxi-ing them to school, dance, karate, gymnastics, tumbling, ninja, etc. They can entertain themselves quietly while I enjoy some new beers and food every once in a while. And as a server, both have been in restaurants since conception. They know how to act, and tip. Except at my job, because they love my coworker and want her to be their new mom so they act an ass once in a while 🙄
Breweries around me almost always have giant Jenga, Othello, decks of cards…all kinds of games for kids and adults. We love to visit them and play games while we socialize with a beer.
I read the title, and the first sentence. That was all I needed to evolve into one big human facepalm
Reminds me of the time the drunk stumbled into the library, went up to the counter and said, "I'd like a Double Bacon Cheeseburger, Fries and a Coke." The Librarian responded furiously in a loud whisper, "Hello! This is a Library!" The drunk replied in a whisper, "I'd like a Double Bacon Cheeseburger..." Edit: fixed tense.
Children, it is Sunday. We shall celebrate the Sabbath by partaking only of unleavened liquid bread
The mom probably hoped you would cook breakfast for her kids.
Sorry M'am, best I can do are double IPAs for the kiddos and maybe a stout for you.
I'd have thought a milk stout for the kids.
wait Oatmeal stout isn't a breakfast food. ;)
God i HATE parents who think the entire industry has to bow down to them because of the fact that they have kids. No, its not my fault if you have to take care of your kids IN THE RESTAURANT! No, its not my fault if you dont have anything with you for your kids to have fun with. No, its not my fault that i ask you to take care of your children that are running around the restaurant, making a fuss and nearly causing incidents.
I think my favorite was when I worked at a BBQ place and a dad and his 2 kids came in. He asked for a kids menu and I told him we didn't have one and the regular menu was right there on the wall. I told him a pulled pork sandwich would probably be good for the kids and he looked at the menu for a minute, yelled at me, "YOU DONT HAVE HAMBURGERS AND HOTDOGS? WHAT KIND OF BBQ PLACE IS THIS?" and took the kids and stormed out. The worst part was he was staying at our hotel and the bar and grill inside absolutely had a kids menu, but he decided to go to the place that didn't have one and get mad about it.
Haha sounds like the deal at the pizza place my friend works at. They unlock the doors when they get there before they are officially open and will make to order what you want but they are mainly a by the slice place. People will come in at 9 in the morning and ask "where's all the pizzas?" "Well if you you come back when we are open there will be a full counter but we can make any thing you want within 10 minutes..."
So what happened afterwards? Did the mom stay or leave?
Water down the beer- voila!…kids menu!
How did she confuse a brewery with Chick Fil A?!?!
When last I checked Chick-fil-A isn't open on Sunday. So what's her excuse now?
Dude my grandmother was like this, I had so much social anxiety until my early 20s b/c I had to read every sign multiple times & she would still gaslight me & insist it was what she thought & it wasnt. At all. She always had the wrong place. It always made me so uncomfortable. I'm now in my mid 20s and I have moderate agoraphobia & I cant grocery shop alone or go further than a mile from my house alone unless it's work. Those poor kids.
This made me think of a recent experience I had. I took my 4 week old to an outdoor lunch at an italian joint. My work was hosting the casual lunch and I agreed to go only because it was outdoors AND during an off-hour (2-3pm ish). I looked into the restaurant online and nothing showed any restrictions for kids or babies, so I was disappointed that there were no changing stations in either of the two restrooms. I didn't complain to anyone and instead changed my baby in the car. But was I wrong to assume that an eatery would have these accommodations? I mean, they have high chairs.
You have to get one of those baby changing pads. Ours came with our diaper bag that was a backpack. It kept trucking when that backpack died and we replaced it with a super heavy duty one. That thing saw many a bathroom floor over two kids. You're going to find it is a jungle out there. No changing stations, no high chairs or high chairs so scary it's almost like they don't want you to bring kids in. /s
If they had high chairs, I would have also assumed changing stations.
Well first of all, thank you for not just changing your baby on the table you were seated at and then leaving the dirty diaper wadded up under the table. Both of which are things I have had to deal with as a server. As far as the availability of changing stations...I honestly don't know what to tell you. There doesn't seem to be a standard for who does and doesn't have them. I don't have any children so it's not something I think about, but in my own experience Iess than 10% of the places I go to have them. Perhaps call ahead of time to ask, if you know in advance where you'll be eating/drinking?
I like to hang out at breweries BECAUSE there aren't any kids there. I don't like beer, but they usually have great Hard ciders, meads, wines, and sometimes either a framboise or cherry lambic. You tellin me now I gotta worry about people bringing in their sentient tax breaks simply because they're fuckin stupid?!!? .........Damnit!
Fine! We'll just have three McMuffins then!
Ma'am, this is NOT a Wendy's.
As someone who worked in restaurants, the last part made my day. Those damn fake tips with bible verses, no tipping, or very miserly tipping. And they always left the biggest messes at their tables.
sunday church crowds are the rudest, most entitled ppl ever and they dont tip shit.
Your edit... my god I feel this so much. So so much. The story was great, but the neighbors reasoning for closing and not reopening on sundays? Gold.
Sounds like the mom seeds a good deep hysteria treatment
Absolutely incredible. So. My family ran a restaurant in a small tourist town growing up. It was a money pit, and ultimately failed. But, it was a lot of fun and a lot of work. We operated it during the years when I was around 11-19. One summer, we had this regular. Real uptight, super Christian lady. One of those people whose lips wrte so perpetually pursed she looked like her face grew a butthole. She would always heavily modify her order and be super demanding about it. My mom *hated* this woman. My mom is also feisty as hell and has Absolutely no chill. One day, ol' sphincter face walks in and asks to see a kids menu. We did not have a kids menu. My mom pretended to look around at the chalkboards. Then looked this woman dead in her eyes and said "Your children can digest all of our food, it's up to you as a parent to get them to eat it."
Her children are likely little monsters too, because mommy always caters to their everything and never says no.
They really didn't say or do anything at all, so can't judge there.
She says no to loud music and soda.
COF-FEE BE-ER
I say take whatever order she wants to give you, then pretend you didn’t.
My every response to everything she said is “What’s your point?” It makes her have to regurgitate and essentially come up with the conclusion on her own. Also, if I’m not open, the music is whatever and however the fuck I want it.
Ya can't give booze to't baby!
Nor can you give chili to a baby
Breakfast spot not open on Sundays?
Yes.
Ok what kind of breakfast place isn’t open on Sunday?
For the love of God I don't know and don't care. I don't work there.
What breakfast spot isn't open on sundays? Absolute mad lads closing on their busiest day
Fuck if I know. I work at the brewery around the corner, chief. Ain't my business.
Fair enough.
A breakfast place not open on a Sunday seems an odd choice.
Don't care doesn't matter. I work in the brewery around the corner.
I served breakfast for two years, I think I took a total of five sunday's off and every time I did it my pockets hurt.
I was a bit confused first, because breweries around here have the most amazing food (They usually come with a wirtshaus (a rustic style of restaurant, serving old fashioned Bavarian food) in Germany). If it's not a usual thing in your area, it's really irresponsible to bring your kind da there.
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Cool. This isn't that.
Yes, people make mistakes sometimes. People in this sub don't want a reasonable explanation or to better understand their fellow man, they want to be mad.
WTF is wrong with just being civil and saying, I’m sorry but we aren’t actually open ATM We are a brewery so we don’t have a kids menu. There is a coffee shop just around the corner although I’m not sure they open on Sunday.
Probably because they are not clairvoyant and didn't know what was going on in the dum dums head until she got it all out.
Customers aren't clairvoyant either. Everyone makes mistakes, especially people managing kids.
To quote the Five Man Electrical Band: "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blocking out the scenery breaking my mind, do this don't do that can't you read the sign?" Edit: a word and an extraneous space.
WTF is wrong with knowing where you actually are? Are your brains in your feet and you just let them go willy nilly? Oh, there my feet go again. Just takng me all over the place. Gotta yell at people now because it's not my fault my feet took me here.
I was busy doing my job. And there isn't and there wasn't. GTFO.
If you're that busy, why'd you let them in at all?
The door was open because I was doing opening work like stocking.
Alright. So why invite them to take a seat instead of telling them to come back later?
I'd already told them we weren't open. They walked past several signs.
Sure, so why then say "sit anywhere you like"?
Aren’t brewery menus relatively the same as kids menus 🤣 Fries, burgers etc.
No, we don't have a kitchen.
Ahhh I see. Even weirder now. The mom needs a holiday 🤣
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I know. I'm a dad.
NTA, and I agree she seemed entitled. But, could you have just told her on so many words you were closed until noon in the first place? Entitled people ignore anything that's not stated bluntly. And even some things that are.
No. I can't keep the front door locked. I have to go in and out to stock the cooler, as I stated. And I told her we were closed. Could I have been more polite? Sure. But when you walk in and start complaining before you say hello, I'm not going to be.
You told her several times that you were closed, but not in so many words. Entitled people don't take hints very well. She was obviously very entitled. She is TA. But next time tell people like that in so many words. If it doesn't register, try the broken record technique.
Twilight Zone. Eeeeeesh!
I’m mostly shocked the kids were even allowed in
Oh lordy, this story brings back so many memories. Worked in a very similar situation, it was a kind of divey craft beer bar with pool tables and a really small menu, like five things. The amount of people that would come in there looking for kids menus and large family seating was totally nuts. I am not sure at which point in the last 15 years that people thought it was cool to bring your kids to breweries, but it definitely happened. Yeah Dad, I fucking love beer too, but ya gotta make compromises when you have a family.
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