Reply #33: Ahh ... but I am not a stranger off the street ...

[JoePhilly]

Like most people, I frequent the SAME restaurants regularly.

Right near me, there is a group of 4 nice restaurants ... an upscale Steak House, a very nice Italian place, a Japanese restaurant, and a nice seafood place. And I take my kids to each. They know me by name ... Joe.

If one of them used this model, they'd lose my regular business.

And, I bet, they'd lose the business of other regular customers in the area with kids.

Personally, the most obnoxious diners I ever see (statistically, to misuse the term you misused), are drunk folks without kids.

And I bet you'd be pissed if restaurants banned those without kids using your same logic.

Here's an idea ... if ANY group at a restaurant is disturbing others, whether children, or drunks with no kids, the management reserves the right to ask them to leave.

Pretty simple.