She Claimed A Restaurant Charged Her A $50 Unruly Children Fee On Her Dinner Bill
Picture this: you’re sitting in a nice restaurant, and a couple or parent is eating with their kids at a table near you. Not long into your meal, you realize the kids are naughty, and their behavior disrupts your dining experience.
Do you think there should be some kind of consequence for that, and if so, what would it be? How about an extra charge for kids who misbehave on that couple’s check?
Bri Weimar (@goodbyetwenties), a TikTok creator who posts the occasional sarcastic parenting video, went viral after creating a post about a restaurant allegedly charging her an “unruly children” fee after finishing dinner with her family.
“If you have kids, do not eat at this restaurant,” says Bri at the beginning of her video.
“I just got charged a $50 ‘unruly children fee.’ I’ve never heard of this happening before.”
Bri then adds a photograph of a receipt to her video, explaining that she and her husband went to a Seattle establishment for “a normal” dinner with their two kids and, out of nowhere, were “slapped with a fine.”
Then, Bri mentioned she received a phone call from the restaurant’s manager, explaining why the added $50 charge was there, and shared a recording of it with her TikTok viewers.
“I talked to the server who took care of you, and your children were listening to [their] iPads at a loud volume, which was ruining the ambiance for other guests that we had,” says the manager in the voicemail.
The manager also states that Bri’s children had been running around the dining area without shoes on their feet, eating food out of their hands.
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“We want to make sure that this is an enjoyable experience for all of our guests, so the ‘unruly children fee’ will not be removed from your bill,” adds the manager.
As the voicemail recording plays, Bri can be seen rolling her eyes, clearly disagreeing with the manager’s statements.
A few days after her video was posted and received hundreds of thousands of views, Bri revealed that the story was made up and that the restaurant name, receipt, and voicemail were all created using ChatGPT.
However, she accomplished one of her goals, which was to spark an online debate about whether or not fees for misbehaved children in restaurants should be common practice.
“As a mom of two boys, I hope all restaurants start doing this,” commented a TikTok user.
“I’m a mom and totally agree with the manager and fee!” wrote another user.
“[If] you want to go to a nice restaurant, get a babysitter.”
Sometimes, children can be unpredictable, and understandably, parents may lose control from time to time. Plus, it takes some practice to get kids sitting at a table constantly in a restaurant.
But the moment they start running around without shoes, you better get it together. Because, who knows, maybe you’ll get hit with an added fee!
Do you believe “unruly kids fees” should be a thing at eating establishments?
@goodbyetwenties I don’t even know if this is legal or not, apparently this so-called policy is listed in their menu and on their website. I will be giving them my two cents online in a review as well. #Satire #BadParenting #restaurantreview #serverproblems
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