Writing at American Thinker, Selwyn Duke notes a restaurant that will no longer admit individuals under age 10. He observes the furor over this policy with people calling the staff "child haters." His take: the staff don't hate the children, they hate your laissez faire parenting that permits the kids to run wild. I concur.
It put me in mind of an experience the DrsC had in TX when we went there for a year as visiting faculty shortly after retirement. The young man who'd invited me there was a friend and, with his wife, father of a young son.
After we'd been there a few weeks we invited them to join us for supper at a local restaurant. They accepted, we met at the restaurant, were seated and ordered.
Their child was bored, I suppose, and began to wander around the restaurant as though it were a playground. Instead of reining him in, they basically ignored what he was doing - being a pest and noisy in the process.
We were embarrassed but felt constrained about commenting on someone else's child-rearing choices. The meal eventually ended and, needless to say, we chose not to repeat the experience during the several months remaining in our stay there.
Their values were not our values, and without supervision their child was unpleasant to be around. Your basic "free range" human infant is often a little horror. Imagine being this kid's kindergarten teacher, trying for the first time to teach him impulse control. Both teacher and child will hate that process.
Later ... the other DrC reminds me that the owner of a restaurant in Jackson Hole called The Bird has strong opinions about several things which he's itemized in the menu. These include (I'm paraphrasing) "your children are welcome if they behave, if they act up your party will be asked to leave." He also doesn't believe in diet drinks and won't serve them.
