Parents and 2 year old enter diner.

2 year old screams for 40 minutes nonstop.

Diner owner tells parents to leave.

Parents don't leave.

Diner owner yells at 2 year old to stfu

2 year old does indeed stfu

Diner owner & parents go at it on the diner Facebook page.

The internet takes appropriate sides.



Local news coverage with diner owner interviewed. Interview is pure gold, must watch. Diner owner dgaf and owns it.

Local news coverage 2

Good for him. The customer is not always right.

You should really avoid keeping cherioes in your pockets. Vegetable oil, the second biggest part of it (they're like chips, right?), is very prone to oxidation and temperature, resulting in the fat becoming toxic.
Always remember to store your vegetable oil, or products with it, save from oxidation and high temperature.

Hilarious interview with owner and should have stopped there as I found the interview with mom enraging.

****ty parents with their ****ty children.

Dude is completely nuts, and the parents suck big time.

I want to eat at her restaurant!

I'm sure I wouldn't have lasted forty minutes, but my sister who taught first graders, would have lasted about fifteen seconds.

"no one messes with my child like this!"

except you slunk out and took it to facebook like a COWARD

The reactions to this.... UGH!!!!!

Bill Burr's bit on a similar thing as this in his latest special is spot-on!! Sign says "We like our beer like we like our violence: Domestic" Customer complains, manager says its no big deal. Thats where it should've stayed, and same with this. But no!! Customer complains, posts on FB and 2 people lost their jobs.

I'm really glad this place is privately owned, cause if it was corporate, she'd have been fired, the staff would've been reprimanded and I'll bet a goddamned donation page would be set up to compensate these poor unfortunate parents and their little precious daughter and they'd rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

separate from all the kid stuff, when did ordering three FULL pancakes start overwhelming a restaurants ability to function? I sort of thought pancakes always came in threes. I don't think I've ever gone into a place for breakfast and said 'I'd like one pancake, please".



Now I'm hungry for pancakes.

Poor parenting. Period. Anybody with kids knows that, at this age, they have little to no self-control. In a public setting, at best, two minutes of trying to distract a toddler is the most time you should spend. At that point, get the kid the hell out of the restaurant.

Take her for a walk. Show her cars or trees or whatever works, but do it away from people.

I can't see where this is even debatable.

Is there anything more tiresome and pointless than the constant and never ending cycle of internet faux outrage? Every day it's a new person who feels like some minor incident that happened to them is the GREATEST OUTRAGE in the history of the world and the sanctimonious and clueless internet lynch mob, without any clue as to what actually happened or any context at all, loses it's ****. And in a few days nobody will remember this **** at all and will have moved on to the next OUTRAGE!!! Someone will have worn a tacky shirt, or told a bad joke, or said something mean, and the cycle will repeat.

Outrage makes for good clickbait, which is what helps is spread so much.

Twitter and Facebook gives every petty, narcissistic malcontent an avenue to be drama queens.

Everyone is a special snowflake and every slight or annoyance encountered is the greatest human tragedy ever. "Someone was rude to me in a restaurant!" Heavens, hopefully you went straight to grief counseling. First world problems at their finest. Pretty sure the hundreds of millions of people on the planet who struggle to get enough food don't' give a **** that your restaurant experience was not as pleasurable as you would have hoped.

I had an employee like this. She had a 2 year old that was an unholy terror. Terrible parent that doesn't give a crap about anyone else, damm hippie.

Agree with what you are saying for sure. To play Devil's Advocate though I'd say the same could be said about people who think a crying baby ruins their day.

Yeaaah... but if we substract first world problems from OOT, 80% of the threads would disappear. "Complaining on a high comfort-level" is what it's all about for most of us, nowadays. We love to distract ourselves from thinking about the fact that one day we all gonna die (or rent, if you are an anal nit), and as long as that dieing still seems to be somehwat far away, we bitch about nonsense, and keep the TV running at low volume when we go to bed. But when it gets closer, we become a bit more mahatma'ish, and just enjoy the good things.

TV just said that in about 40 years, we can scan our Neurotransmitters etc 100% exactly, and then copy our identity onto a computer. For me, that actually sounds scary and calmative at the same time. To be able to reduce a character/identity/etc onto a machine. I wouldn't want that for myself - I'm quite altruistic - but it makes me feel like there will be a lot better drugs by then, so I just gotta make it to the age of 70, until I can choose to either live forever as machine, or get tailored drugs for my needs.

The owner really interviewed well. She should probably stay off the internets though, she doesn't translate well to written medium.

Owner has one of the biggest granny arm flab to body ratios ever.

That's what I noticed

She should prbly realize those encounters she's not afraid of might play out different now that she's not on the juice

Also thought it was funny that she says bring in cheerios when on the door it says no food allowed

Yeah, the mother is proll wrong here, she says a 2 year old can't sit still, so what did she expect? Is everyone supposed to accept a screaming kid?

The 3 pancakes being an issue seems weird though, especially when there on the menu for 8 bucks.

http://www.nicemuffin.com/menu.html

Also, "cash only" would be annoying.

I'm sure 3 is waaaay too much food for the kid

She prbly wanted to get her one right away was the main point I'm guessing - which is something a good parent would've asked for with the other 2 to follow if getting 3 was really want they wanted

The pancakes I assume fill the whole plate and are much bigger than the pic posted above (which are prbly a little bigger than the silver dollar ones on the menu additionally)

Seems to be some disagreement on the pancake situation. One source says the pancakes were a huge hassle for the diner to make and the other source says the pancakes were on the table but the parents weren't feeding it to the kid.

Either way, I don't think either scenario justifies 40 minutes of a screaming kid inside the restaurant.

It's prbly both, they tried to get her to order one for expediency and past history of feeding kids this age but they're also prbly very large and take a lot of the grill

Then to add insult to injury they didn't feed the kid properly once they got them

For reference this is the size of their pancakes

I see an audit in their future.

The lack of icing sugar on that pancake is deeply disturbing.

I just don't see the necessity in tacking it down

If I'm ever in Maine I'm eating there. For parents to let their child scream for 40 minutes is unacceptable. You go to restaurant to have a pleasurable experience not to hear the blood curdling screams of a child.

It's on the parents to take the child outside and calm her down.

The owner had to yell at the kid and looks like the 'bad guy'. Mother was also a coward for posting on facebook. People are so afraid of confrontation nowadays.