Restaurant Bans Dumb Parents

July 15, 2011

Recently, Mike Vuick, owner of McDain’s Restaurant in Pennsylvania, banned children

under six years old from eating at his establishment. This is causing a major online

brouhaha.

He defends his new policy by saying that his upscale-casual restaurant is not a suitable

environment for noisy children who, because of their age or lack of parental oversight,

have no manners.

While…

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