We all know that eating out with kids can sometimes be a nerve-wracking prospect – tired children, babies who need feeding and getting toddlers to sit still often make things a little tricky. But that does that mean children should be banned from pricey restaurants?

After sitting through a meal interrupted by children, one woman has raised the idea of restaurants having a no-child policy particularly when it’s a more expensive establishment.

“Four of us booked a table in an expensive restaurant last night for 7.30pm,” she explained on Mumsnet.

“About 10 minutes after we’d sat down a couple came in pushing a buggy and with two other children in tow. They were seated at the table beside us. One child kept bashing his spoon off the table, another kept crawling along the wide windowsill so that he was right behind my head, and the baby was kept amused by the father playing peek a boo while she screamed excitedly. This went on and on.

“We asked to be moved to another table. There were none available. Then the baby started crying loudly and the toddler got tired and cranky and joined the wailing. We left without dessert and complained on the way out. They knocked the price of a bottle of wine off our bill.

“We paid a lot of money for a meal we couldn’t enjoy.”

Now the woman is asking whether she’s being unreasonable by thinking that restaurants that charge ‘a small fortune’ should have a policy for dealing with children.

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