Putting a child to sleep on the floor at California Grill?!?

I have to backpedal a bit... I made a quick judgement but forgot that sometimes people have medical issues or other issues that others don't always know. Granted, in this case it seems like it was really uncalled for but I guess my point is that you don't always know someones situation and we're always quick to pass judgement. I have a niece who has had several brain surgeries and I am so agitated by people who pass judgement and don't know the magnitude of her situation.
 
I'm going the total opposite way. If the child was not in danger, what's the problem? I know my floor at home is not as clean as a restaurant's floor that gets attention every night but I would let a child sleep on it. In fact, HAVE let my grandkids sleep on it. Are our home kitchen's total immaculate? Is that the criteria for sleeping somewhere? Are our home beds 100% germ free? I doubt it. You lost that bet the moment you laid down in it.

I would have rather seen what the OP said over a restless kid running though the restaurant, a crying kid wanting to leave, or a bored kid at the table throwing things. I've seen it all at many restaurants and it really doesn't bother me that much. And I've seen adults doing the same. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "eating in a restaurant is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get". And Disney World restaurants are a part of life.

There are simply no words for the many levels of inappropriateness for this whole scenerio. The problem IMO is that society now has a sense of entitlement. Whatever we want, we should get. Etiquette isn't in question anymore. Someone else's feelings or inconvenience or certainly what's best for THEM isn't part of the equation anymore. If it's what I want, then everyone else be damned. I blame this feeling of the world-revolving-around- ME ME ME and everyone else existing solely in MY world as the problem for so many of life's irritations.
 
My guess is that these folks really wouldn't care what any of us would have to say about them doing what they did. They obviously had a reason to do it or maybe it's just their thing. Either way, I don't think it's anyone's business, but that's just me. Having four kids, I've done a lot of things I never thought I would lol.
 
I have to backpedal a bit... I made a quick judgement but forgot that sometimes people have medical issues or other issues that others don't always know. Granite, in this case it seems like it was really uncalled for but I guess my point is that you don't always know someones situation and we're always quick to pass judgement. I have a niece who has had several brain surgeries and I am so agitated by people who pass judgement and don't know the magnitude of her situation.

All we have to judge a situation like this are our eyes and ears, so judgments are welcome. Also, please don't misunderstand me, a medical condition -- assuming what the OP saw was one -- so onerous that it leads man and child to stretch across a public floor is one which should keep them both away from sight.
 

Inappropriate, classless, whatever word you want to throw out there.

If the child had some kind of medical issue (which wouldn't be surprising given that they apparently sleep on floors in public places, you can catch a lot of things that way), then you plan for that accordingly, and using the floor in a restaurant is not planning. You go to the lobby and use a bench there, you go back to your room, you go to the car, you put the child in your lap and eat with one hand, you use your stroller, whatever. But you don't put the child on the floor like a dog, and then on top of that lay down with him/her.
 
I would have rather seen what the OP said over a restless kid running though the restaurant, a crying kid wanting to leave, or a bored kid at the table throwing things. I've seen it all at many restaurants and it really doesn't bother me that much. And I've seen adults doing the same.

How about they take the child out of the restaurant and remove them from the situation. Sorry, behavior such as a child (and adult?!?!) sleeping in the floor is highly inappropriate in any restaurant, much less a signature like CG.
 
Even if you don't care about the grossness of a restaurant floor. :sick::rotfl2:

This is an upscale restaurant. People are out for a nice meal, they don't need to see people camped out on a floor. I'm surprised the restaurant allowed it.
 
What time was the dinner? The reason I ask, is did the person make a late dinner and think their child would be pleasant and awake for it. It makes me so mad when people push their kids to their limits and then some and expect them to behave in a nice restaurant. I push my kids a little past their bedtime some of the time at WDW, but I wouldn't make a late dinner at a signature restaurant after walking MK all day!

I personally think it's inappropriate to lay on the floor, especially at a signature restaurant where people expect more of a fancier/classier dinner. But we don't know what the circumstances were!.
 
What time was the dinner? The reason I ask, is did the person make a late dinner and think their child would be pleasant and awake for it. It makes me so mad when people push their kids to their limits and then some and expect them to behave in a nice restaurant. I push my kids a little past their bedtime some of the time at WDW, but I wouldn't make a late dinner at a signature restaurant after walking MK all day!

I personally think it's inappropriate to lay on the floor, especially at a signature restaurant where people expect more of a fancier/classier dinner. But we don't know what the circumstances were!.

It was between 8:45 and 9:00 when that table was sat, so they obviously weren't taking the needs of the child into consideration. Although I agree that we don't know their circumstances, I can't think of one that would make that appropriate. They put their own comfort above the comfort of all those around them. I was definitely uncomfortable while he was laying there! As a side note, when they were being sat the woman was extremely loud and repeatedly yelled to her group that all the children were to sit at the far end of the table while the adults were to sit at opposite end.
 
Still doesn't make it "appropriate". If the child was near a melt down, then they should have removed the child from the restaurant. Neither allowing a child to have a meltdown OR allowing a child to sleep on the floor is the correct solution to that problem.

Allowing the child to lay on the floor is inappropriate at any restaurant, but most definitely at a signature.

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My family and I were on the DDP (which was 'free') and we know how to behave appropriately in a restaurant. With the price of a Disney vacation, nothing is free; regardless of how they play with the numbers.
 
We had dinner at Ohana with one that NEVER woke up!! He fell asleep on the bus on the way and he woke up in the hotel room the next morning. But, we simply requested a booth and told the server that if she noticed that he woke up, to please make sure he had a plate, ect so he could eat. The stinky part of the entire thing, is my husband had suprised the 2 of us with our birthday cake that meal. He missed out!! But, Chef Mickey's, the following night, made up for it! I would NEVER encourage a child to sleep on the floor. That is GROSS!! I would have held her if she just couldn't make it back to the room. We all know with little ones, sometimes that just can't make it back.
 
There is no excuse that would ever make it appropriate to allow a child to lay on the floor of any restaurant. That is so out there and ludicrous that I never would have thought I would hear about it happening. If there was something wrong with the child, then the parents need to leave the restaurant and actually parent instead of doing something so... :scared1:
 
I'm going the total opposite way. If the child was not in danger, what's the problem? I know my floor at home is not as clean as a restaurant's floor that gets attention every night but I would let a child sleep on it. In fact, HAVE let my grandkids sleep on it. Are our home kitchen's total immaculate? Is that the criteria for sleeping somewhere? Are our home beds 100% germ free? I doubt it. You lost that bet the moment you laid down in it.

I would have rather seen what the OP said over a restless kid running though the restaurant, a crying kid wanting to leave, or a bored kid at the table throwing things. I've seen it all at many restaurants and it really doesn't bother me that much. And I've seen adults doing the same. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "eating in a restaurant is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get". And Disney World restaurants are a part of life.

Wow :eek: don't know which shocked me the most - what the OP saw or this post by disnut8. Nothing of what you mentioned is appropriate. What does it take to "really" bother you?? :scared1:
 
It doesn't surprise me, but it's completely inappropriate. This is why we can't have nice things.....
 
I think you may have overlooked the part about the full grown adult man lying down on the signature restaurant floor as well.....:scared1:

That's the part that completely weirded me out. :goodvibes

I wouldn't expect that at ANY restaurant. Take the kid home, back to the hotel, whatever.
 


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