This. Children and dogs - the two things that their owners are the most delusional about and the rest of us simply don't wish to be exposed to for the most part.

This, these pancakes look disgusting, why so thick ?

Owner is probably mentally deranged. Probably about as deranged as the mother is. No winners in this story.

Was comparing it to previous threads on the subject and how those conversations went, not how my particular dog is (though he is awesome).

Gobbo,

What's your point?

I agree with the comments that the owner seems to have a screw loose. Letting a situation fester for this long is not good customer service. But, in the original comment from the owner, the waitress tried to inform the parents that they were placing an order that would require extra time to prepare.

Telling the parents(or any customer for that matter), that the size of the pancakes and the amount of time they will take to make is NOT passing moral judgement on anyone.

It's simply allowing a customer to make an informed decision on whether they want to wait the extra time, or prefer to order something else. Surely, anybody here can attest to having been told a wait time when ordering something.

So, knowing this, the parents place their child in a situation where she begins to melt down, and the wait time is still acceptable?

These parents are cruel and totally irresponsible. There's a world of difference between a 4 year old who is testing your limits, and a not-quite two year old having a meltdown. And the last place you want to deal with it is a crowded restaurant. Even if you don't give a darn about the customers, don't you care about the obvious distress of your child?

Reminds me of this post:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...-thoughts.html

Them's BIG ASS pancakes. You aint gonna get a BIG ASS eatin' thin little delicate pancakes ldo.

People can be allergic to dogs and not humans though. It's also impossible to tell how well trained a dog is without exposure to the dog.

There're quite a few pubs in the UK that welcome dogs though. One near my house has a human menu and a dog menu.

That is a terrible pancake. To have a manhole-sized pancake just for the sake of having a big ass pancake is bad. But this is America! 20 minute wait for that thing is also lol.

But the owner did warn them that 3 of these things for their kid is too much and will take a while. Screaming kid with no parental action and they should be kicked out. The owner should have just said to the parent that the kid is disturbing the whole restaurant and they will gladly put their order as to-go, but you guys need to wait outside.

Screaming back at a screaming kid not only makes you look like a kid, but you're screaming at the wrong person.

Exactly

According to the owner she was screaming at the parents not the kid. Love owners telling their ******ed customers to **** off.

It's stuff like this that makes me long for the 80s.

I wouldn't even had heard of this stupid incident and would just go on happily living my life wearing some badass OP t-shirt.

@ goose

Customer: "did you just scream at a child?"
Owner: "Yup, sure did. Shut her/him (I forget) right up too."


In the owners own words...

Never heard of icing sugar, wtf. Google says it's Canadian for powdered sugar. Lol.

Also why do people talk like yelling at a kid is some huge crime? As someone said in this thread, someone needed to! I love all the tough guy parents (usually the moms) who are like "IF YOU YELLED AT MY KID I WOULD **** YOU UP!' Please shut the **** up. No wonder your kid is ****ed up.

What do you expect from people who call sliced ham bacon?

It's confectioners sugar. Powdered vs granulated. It's called icing sugar because it is the base for almost every icing. You can't use granulated because it's too grainy.

parents should have just left the restaurant when the owner broughht over boxes and asked them to leave which results in no problem. when they refuse and kid keeps screaming owner had the right to yell at kid if parents wont do anything about it

People are allergic to peanut butter but they don't ban peanut butter from restaurants!

The parents seem like sanctimonious tools to me, and the owner seems like she's getting over a meth addiction. If asked to choose between these two mild forms of evil, I'd choose for the owner. I'm hugely biased on this, though: Mrs. T and I had very little tolerance for misbehavior when the Little Ts were young, and we absolutely never would have remained in a restaurant for more than two minutes with a screaming child. Most of the time, you can figure out why your child is screaming -- and if it's hunger or temperature, you can solve it pretty quickly. If they're otherwise in pain (ear, stomach, whatever), it's much harder to tell, but my kids were expected to do so at two and to attempt to use adult language in so doing.

When she was two and change, I took my elder daughter to a grocery store one night to get something that she wanted and she melted down after being in the store for perhaps a minute. I told her to stop screaming. She didn't. So I picked her up, put her over my shoulder, and walked out of the store as I said to her: if you scream, there is no chance at all you're going to get what you want. Never again did we have even a slight issue with that sort of thing. It's simply amazing how quickly kids fall into line when you routinely enforce no-whining/no-screaming rules.

Those people are allergic to INGESTING peanut butter. You don't have to ingest a dog to be allergic to it.

I agree with all of this except for siding with the owner.

The owner is obviously unhinged, and therefore likely exaggerated everything. I mean the owner seemingly came close to having a nervous breakdown because someone had the nerve to order a menu item.

Take the owners version of events with a large grain of salt imo.

I was just joking Although I think there are some people who can be so allergic to peanuts they can't even come into contact with it.

Tend to agree she seemed... shall we say, tightly wound.

Crying kids are annoying but lol@ a 3-pancake order backing up the kitchen. Might need to invest in a larger grill.

On the owners side.

I don't even give my kids a full 2 minutes of crying. Less than a minute and I would scoop them up and walk out with them for awhile. It made going out to eat a hassle sometimes, but it beats being embarrassed and ruining peoples dinner.

Glad they are out of that stage.