Maryland family asked to leave Outback Steakhouse because son with special needs was too loud

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38. Agree with your sentiment.

Most people are middle class and make sacrifices to have a night out, have their own issues, want to celebrate their own occasions, etc. When other customers are disruptive (no matter how 'justifiable' that disruption may be) it completely destroys the atmosphere, making the outing worthless.

I get the issue of having more understanding about kids, disabled, elderly, etc. But in many such cases I've seen it's because the individual didn't want to be there, that the adult/caretaker wasn't attending to them, etc.

Some restaurants have separate 'family' sections for noisy situations, seems to work well. There are also louder restaurants where noise from any one person will just blend in. Background music helps to even out the noise as well.