Um, no. Proximity to a door does not make complete strangers responsible for helping YOUR kid.

Bestir yourself to open the door for your own kids.

And by the way? If your kids are small enough to need help with the door, you either need to go in there with them and sit on the benches, or find a seat very close to the door anyway.

I consider myself at least somewhat of a “it takes a village” person and no, it honestly wouldn’t cross my mind to start opening doors for other people’s kids just because I was seated closer to the door than the kids parent. That’s a little beyond. Especially if I am sitting Down eating my own lunch.

If someone's kids pooped themselves and you're the closest person around - would you jump to clean up in the the middle of your meal?

Anonymous wrote:There should be a switch on the door so that children with disabilities can get to the play area. Not ADA compliant.

The door is insanely heavy for kids. Kids without disabilities often can’t open it. It’s heavy for safety reasons; they don’t want to make it too easy to open, so, no button.

I would help with the door. I can see why others wouldn’t. This isn’t a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:I would help with the door but i am a village type parent.

I would help too.

And really, I am going to chic-fil-a because I am hungry and I want to get the kids out of the house. It’s not a place I go for special quality time or deep intense conversation.

Maybe they didn't choose the booth. Maybe that was the available booth.

Your perspective is quite privileged.

There should be a switch on the door so that children with disabilities can get to the play area. Not ADA compliant.

Absolutely not. If the kid isn't big enough to open a door independently, you need to be with them in a play area. It is not another customers responsibility.

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Anonymous wrote:If you choose to sit at that table at Chic-fil-a, you are probably homophobic. Or at least comfortable supporting a company that is openly anti-gay.

Sometimes a chicken sandwich is just a sandwich. Save your righteous indignation for real battles.

And sometimes one has the intellect/critical thinking skills to realize when it comes to a trash company like CFA, this is a real battle.


As for the OP, you have to be kidding me. No, whoever gets stuck sitting at the table is not de facto doorman for all the unsupervised children heading out to the playground.

Anonymous wrote:If you choose to sit at that table at Chic-fil-a, you are probably homophobic. Or at least comfortable supporting a company that is openly anti-gay.

Sometimes a chicken sandwich is just a sandwich. Save your righteous indignation for real battles.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t open the door because I would be concerned the children weren’t supposed to be going in without supervision if they aren’t big enough to open the door themselves.

Exactly. Should we open the door to the parking lot for them too?

Anonymous wrote:You probably should expect that you’re going to be helping kids open the door, right?

Discuss amongst yourselves, I’m curious to know if I’m the only one who thinks this way. Family tonight just sat there watching kids struggle to open the door it was really bugging me.

Nope. The parents should be helping the kids. If I happen to be sitting there it's simply because that's the table I choose but that does not make me a door woman.

Nope, wouldn't touch that germy door while i was eating! sorry!

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t open the door because I would be concerned the children weren’t supposed to be going in without supervision if they aren’t big enough to open the door themselves.

Same. I wouldn’t want parents to be upset at me.