Taking your young child out to eat isn’t always the easiest endeavor – especially when said child is too young to understand how their behavior affects others.
That’s exactly what happened to an Idaho family’s night out at Texas Roadhouse in Nampa, Idaho, that turned upsetting when fellow diners gave them a nasty note claiming their 10-month-old son was “ruining” their dinner with his screaming.
Katie Leach admits that her son Drew’s favorite “new thing” is yelling, adding he sounds like a dinosaur.
“He will yell when I tell him no, when he’s super excited and happy, or just for no reason at all,” the Nampa, Idaho, mom wrote in a Facebook post to news station KTVB-TV. “I’m doing my best to teach him indoor voice and to not yell back at me when telling him no, etc.”
That night, all the commotion gave Drew added incentive to scream and shout.
“He had been screaming off and on just with everybody as they were singing happy birthday. And when one of the waitresses would come up, he’d scream to tell them hi,” said Leach.
That’s when two women, who Leach describes as in their late fifties or early sixties, came over with their note of disapproval. They slammed it on the table, and then returned to their own, directly behind the Leach family.
“Thank you for ruining our dinner with your screaming kid. Sincerely, the table behind you,” the note read.
When Leach apologetically approached the women with an explanation, they responded that their grandchildren would never behave like that.
While mom didn’t win over her fellow patrons, she did have the support of the restaurant behind her. The manager apologized for the way the Leach family was treated and paid for their dinner and requested that the women who wrote the note leave quietly after finishing their meal.
Travis Doster, a spokesman for Texas Roadhouse, addressed the incident:
“We’re in the hospitality business. We want all our guests to have a great experience. We were voted one of the loudest restaurants by Consumer Reports. We are proud to be loud. If you want to hear clinking wine glasses and clinking forks, then this probably isn’t the place for you.”
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Well to be fair no one wants to hear a kid yell all meal long. And, being elderly myself it’s worse on the person as you get older. But, I would have just eaten and left.