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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a kid is sitting at the bar, then they are taking space away from a paying customer.  It's shitty of you, even if not illegal.[/quote]

I'd get them an overpriced Coke or something.

-- OP[/quote]

Sorry one overpriced Coke does not equal several over priced cocktails. Please stay away![/quote]

Some people order a steak, others order a lobster.  Some have many cocktails, others nurse a bud light.  As long as the family is ordering a reasonable amount, it doesn’t matter that they may not be the most profitable customers that evening.[/quote]

Whoops, I meant salad, not lobster.  But my point was clear.  Plenty of adults spend wildly divergent amounts and a server/bartender has no reasonable gripe just because someone ordered somewhat less expensive items.[/quote]

Ironically, the establishment makes more on the spar than the lobster or steak.[/quote]. SALAD not spar![/quote]

True, although the server doesn’t.  But it is still neither here nor there.  Some tabs are bigger, some aren’t.  That’s a fact of life whether patrons are adults or kids, at the bar or at a table.[/quote].

I was responding to the argument that less is spent kids “by” kids because they’ll have a coke instead of alcohol. The bar will make more on the Coke than the booze especially during Happy Hour.  Yes, the server makes less on salads and Cokes, but that may or may not matter to the house.  They and the servers bank on table-turnover and repeat customers who spend and tip well.  Families don’t always fit in the second category at a bar (unless dining at a table).

I do think it is a bit odd that OP wants to give kids a feel for the bar scene at the bar (does this mean HH?) — and I practically grew up in them.[/quote]

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