shared on X<\/a>, racking up more than one a half million views.<\/p>\nAnd while the rules might sound extreme, hundreds flocked to the comment to praise the venue\u2019s zero-tolerance stance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf your kids are smashing credit card machines and carving things into furniture, they don\u2019t belong in restaurants. End of conversation,\u201d one supportive user commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cRule of parenting: you remove your children from public spaces when they are not acting civilised,\u201d another shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already know they were pushed to their limits,\u201d a third wrote, adding \u2018kudos\u2019 to the venue for actually doing something about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many parents believe \u2018kids will be kids\u2019 entitles their kids to be obnoxious and destructive,\u201d a fourth chimed in.<\/p>\n
But while most were highly supportive of the broader policy, the strict enforcement over minor accidents, like the broken teacup, had some arguing the restaurant was taking things a stretch too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tea cup fine might have been a bit much. Restaurants should expect stuff like that to get damaged,\u201d one person argued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can understand charging a family for drawing on the table with a fork and breaking a machine, but the tea cup, come on, that\u2019s just petty!\u201d another shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it just sounds like this person shouldn\u2019t run a restaurant. Charging people five dollars for a broken cup is insane,\u201d a third added.<\/p>\n
Despite the backlash over the smaller fines, Ms Hayes said that ultimately, other diners have a right to the peaceful enjoyment of their meal without being disturbed by \u201cunruly children\u201d at the table next to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cRestaurant staff have enough on their plate as it is, without adding child-minding to their job descriptions. This is not their responsibility,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
So, what do you think? Should parents have to bear the brunt of their child\u2019s behaviour, or is the restaurant out of line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant has gone viral after introducing a bold new policy to fine parents for their children\u2019s \u201cunruly\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-797674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}