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what should i do if toddler drops food on ground at restaurant?
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Anonymous
| 23:20 here. Also, OP, just ignore the rude comments on this board. They have gotten old and frankly it's not as fun to come on here anymore because the rude comments just take up space. |
Anonymous
| I've worked in restaurants and I would much rather the parent either clean the mess his/herself or use the childrens mat or newspaper rather than tip me more for cleaning it. |
Anonymous
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Pick up the food.
The snideness was rooted in astonishment that anyone would just leave it there. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
But you don't clean it, waitress. The people who come around and sweep the floor clean it up. We are essentially tipping more for them. |
Anonymous
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I have waitressed also and now have 2 under 2 and have never thought that the parents should clean it up, nor do i clean it myself. We dont go out to eat very often and we try not to make too big a mess though.
Recently we were at a hotel and it was a buffet in the dining room, so both DCs tried a whole bunch of diff foods in their high chairs and we we got up, the table and floor were covered in food. It was pretty disgusting and I felt horrible but couldnt have even begun to pick it all up. We just apologized profusely and gave the waitress a $20. There were a lot of other kids there so we werent the fonly ones but it was insanely messy. |
Anonymous
I agree. How is this difficult? I really don't understand the thought process, "After my toddler eats, there is food on the floor - a bigger mess than is typical for a normal diner. Hmm, what to do? Should I leave it there? Pick it up? Decisions, decisions . . . " Give me a break. |
Anonymous
| It takes about ten seconds at most to use a wet wipe to gather up most of the food on the ground - we always do. I think it's rude to just leave it there, personally. |
Anonymous
Why couldn't you clean it up as you went along? Given that they were in high chairs, presumably you were supervising them to some extent? |
Anonymous
| So I clean up and tip more, my husband just tips more. All my friends who were servers said they prefer to see the parent make an effort to clean up the floor. To the poster who just won't go out any more if s/he needs to clean the floor, whatevs. I like to model good behaviour for my kids: being tidy in public is one of them. |
Anonymous
Thats just not true. But thanks for playing. Either way what does it matter who is cleaning up YOUR mess? If you want to teach your kids that you can trash a place and then throw money at someone else to clean up, go right ahead. |
Anonymous
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It's pretty glib and unrealistic to say "I don't let my kids throw food on the floor." I don't let my child throw food on the floor either, but as PPs have noted, sometimes it's not that easy -- one out-of-the-blue throw can make a big mess, plus most times it's just stuff that has dropped or spilled accidentally.
I echo the other people, even the snide ones, who say clean it up and tip better. I'm not going to mop the floor (or bring a floor cover), but I can certainly stoop down at the end of the meal and gather up what I can. |
Anonymous
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Depends what the food item is. If it's pizza crusts, I'll pick it up. If it's rice, I'll leave it for the bus staff. There's certainly no way I'm going to be crawling around on all fours with a handful of napkins underneath a table wiping up spilled rice.
When I go out with kids, I usually tip like 30-40%. Unless the waiter/waitress seems particularly grousy about kids, in which case, I dock them accordingly. Take, for instance, the waitress who was bitching about folks not cleaning up "your mess" in a restaurant. Just to be clear THAT IS WHAT YOUR ESTABLISHMENT IS BEING PAID FOR. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT, FIND A WORKPLACE THAT EITHER A) HIRES BUS STAFF; OR B) DOES NOT SERVE FOOD. You might just as well get pissy about folks teaching their kids that one can make folks cook food for you by throwing money at the problem. |
Anonymous
| leave a good tip. |
Anonymous
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I didn't routinely pick up - esp if it was small stuff like crumbs (albeit lots of them) and rice. sure a hotdog or hamburger bun on the floor, yes. but not the small stuff. either restaurants bar kids from coming or they suck it up and deal with kids in restaurants.
I did tip higher though with a kid in tow, if a mess was made. |