Earlier this year, a New Jersey restaurant decided to ban children under 10 due to a combination of factors that included noise, mess, lack of space for high chairs, and liability issues with kids running underfoot. Not long after, a Chick-fil-A in Pennsylvania banned children under the age of 16 from dining at the restaurant without adult supervision after one too many incidents with rowdy tables of teenagers. The back-to-back news reignited an ongoing debate about whether restaurants should do more to restrict children in order to keep the peace for other diners.
The short answer? No. Kids belong in