Worst behavior ever...

[BAST]

We ate dinner at the Brown Derby on Saturday, August 7.

There was a group of 14 to 16 people at a large table on the main floor of the restaurant. At least 6 were kids (although it was hard to count since they were all running around, fighting and occassionally screaming in the restaurant). This went on for at least 30 minutes.

Finally, one little girl was rolling around on the floor and proceeded to stand up and fling one of her shoes (in a perfect 60 degree arc) about twenty feet onto another patrons table (with (it appeared) glasses, etc. getting knocked over). It was a truly amazing throw for someone so small....

This finally got the attention of the adults and the obnoxious behavior finally stopped. I hope they paid for the dinner they likely ruined (but I do not have much faith that occurred - it did not appear they even apologized).

Thankfully, we were pretty far away from all of this.

By the way, they were speaking Portuguese. Made me chuckle given all the comments about Brazilian tour groups...

 

[Nadjalu]

Wow that is crazy!

In Dec 09 we were at Chef Mickey's having an early dinner, about 5:30pm and seen some bad behavior.
A girl about 8yrs old was eating with what looked to be mom and dad, seemed like a sweet family.
Then I heard this screaming, looked over and saw the girl standing on her chair glass in hand shoving it at the waitress yelling "YOU HAVE TO GET ME ANOTHER DRINK, my mom said so".
While the parents never said a word to her or the waitress. It was like they didn't even see her.

 

[scot@dvcstore]

Sorry to hear about your experience. Pretty sad how one group of people can ruin things for everybody having a meal.

 

[Euphoria027]

Some people are so delusional. Those are the types that would complain about how the servers didn't give their 'adorable kids' enough attention when really, they were probably trying to avoid getting hit with flying objects.

 

[j9000]

Wow that is crazy!

In Dec 09 we were at Chef Mickey's having an early dinner, about 5:30pm and seen some bad behavior.
A girl about 8yrs old was eating with what looked to be mom and dad, seemed like a sweet family.
Then I heard this screaming, looked over and saw the girl standing on her chair glass in hand shoving it at the waitress yelling "YOU HAVE TO GET ME ANOTHER DRINK, my mom said so".
While the parents never said a word to her or the waitress. It was like they didn't even see her.

wow...just wow

 

[suzannews]

Ah, the stories I could tell. Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[Shock13]

I am in no way defending the child/parent's behavior but after working in the food industry for some years, I've come to realize that some parents don't apologize because they are so humiliated by what their child said/did.

 

[LMO429]

I'm extremely tolerate of children in restaurants in walt disney world. this however would have driven me nuts.

 

[TLSnell1981]

There is no excuse for this type of behavior...by THE CHILDREN OR THEIR PARENTS!!! I might occasionally expect to see a child (singular) throw a tantrum or misbehave, but WHOLE group of unruly kids? I do not see how this was allowed to continue. Personally, I think management should have spoken with the family.

I would apologize for a small child, before we took a trip outside,f or a nice little "chat", but an older child would be doing the apologizing. I don't care how embarrassing the situation, the parents are ultimately responsible for their children's behavior.

 

[kristainohio]

That reminds me of the last trip when we were at 50's Primetime. There was a table across from us that held about 8-10 people from Australia. They seemed like they were having a great time but when they left the desecrated their whole table--salt shakers poured everywhere, left their tip IN their drink and just ruined the whole place they were sitting with ketchup and condiments. I was shocked and the poor waitress was in tears. I've never seen anything like it. I can be pretty tolerant of kids too...but running all over the restaurant like at your dinner is ridiculous.

 

[tomt92]

as sad as it sounds working fast food, weddings, and retail nothing surprises me anymore.. It really seems that most people don't care how poorly they treat people working at an establishment our how much they disturb other guests because they are so absorbed in making sure they have a good time nothing else matters..

two examples..

The first was while i was working at a JoAnn fabrics.. A mother was in the store with 2 children about 12 and 10, boy and a girl.. They where running around the store, screaming yelling, pulling items off the racks and shelves onto the floors.. the mother just walked around the store as if there was nothing going on totally oblivious to what her kids where doing..

The second was when i was working at a target.. I was in a isle straighting shelves when someone ran into my leg full force with their cart.. I looked over and the women pushing the cart said to me, and i'm not kidding, "are you going to get out of my way?".. I had a nice black and blue mark from that one..

Don't get me wrong i have two younger siblings, 6 and 9 years younger and i know kids will be kids but parents just seem to let them run wild.. If i did anything like other have described here our like i observed i would be in the car, strapped into my seat and on the way home..

 

[nytimez]

That reminds me of the last trip when we were at 50's Primetime. There was a table across from us that held about 8-10 people from Australia. They seemed like they were having a great time but when they left the desecrated their whole table--salt shakers poured everywhere, left their tip IN their drink and just ruined the whole place they were sitting with ketchup and condiments. I was shocked and the poor waitress was in tears. I've never seen anything like it. I can be pretty tolerant of kids too...but running all over the restaurant like at your dinner is ridiculous.

This is actually the highest form of praise in Australia.

 

[noahdove]

I am confused, nytimez, you said this is the highest form of praise, may I ask, what would happen if they didn't like something? Thank you.

 

[Cat0727]

Oh man, that's awful! How much you wanna bet they didn't even offer to pay for those poor people's meal?

 

[counselormom]

We ate dinner at the Brown Derby on Saturday, August 7.

There was a group of 14 to 16 people at a large table on the main floor of the restaurant. At least 6 were kids (although it was hard to count since they were all running around, fighting and occassionally screaming in the restaurant). This went on for at least 30 minutes.

Finally, one little girl was rolling around on the floor and proceeded to stand up and fling one of her shoes (in a perfect 60 degree arc) about twenty feet onto another patrons table (with (it appeared) glasses, etc. getting knocked over). It was a truly amazing throw for someone so small....

This finally got the attention of the adults and the obnoxious behavior finally stopped. I hope they paid for the dinner they likely ruined (but I do not have much faith that occurred - it did not appear they even apologized).

Thankfully, we were pretty far away from all of this.

By the way, they were speaking Portuguese. Made me chuckle given all the comments about Brazilian tour groups...

That is just insane!! I'm sure everyone was thinking management would put a stop to it. Did they even try?? If I had spent that much money/ two dining credits and that happened I would be hot!!

Note to Self: Learn "No Cutting In Line" AND "Shut your Kid Up" in Portuguese.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

We have only had one case of bad manners in Diney, but ohhh was it bad. There was a family next to us at 50sPT on our last trip. They had obviosuly read all the things you should try to get a rise out of the waitress, but theyw ent way overboard. The father was no question drunk (this was midday) and he just kept yelling louder and louder, the whole family was just over the top rude. Throwing silverware and banging dishes. My grandma (who was raised in a more mannered time) told our waitress she ws disgusted by their behaivor and she said she agreed, she kept appologizing. They had a manager come out and talk to them but it didn't seem to help. I am not sure what happened beyond that because my DH was about to go over there, not in a fighting way, just to talk but it didn't seem like he was a talker and I didn't want that so we opted to get our dessert packed to go and went and ate it at the tables there by the pond area. But they were so rude, I mean who encourages their kids to throw silverware and be nastly to the waitress (in a vulgar way) and ruin everyone's meal?

I have issues with the kids to a certian extent, but if they haven't been taught the proper way to be the blame goes right to the parents.

 

[badblackpug]

Wow that is crazy!

In Dec 09 we were at Chef Mickey's having an early dinner, about 5:30pm and seen some bad behavior.
A girl about 8yrs old was eating with what looked to be mom and dad, seemed like a sweet family.
Then I heard this screaming, looked over and saw the girl standing on her chair glass in hand shoving it at the waitress yelling "YOU HAVE TO GET ME ANOTHER DRINK, my mom said so".
While the parents never said a word to her or the waitress. It was like they didn't even see her.

If this were my kid I would have smacked the little darling off the chair!

The worst we ever encountered was in Coral Reef. The were what looked like 3 families. 6 adults and 6 kids. The adults were at one end of the table the kids at another. The kids were about 7 or 8 to teens. The were yelling and shoving and throwing food! Not a single adult said a word until they got hit by some thrown food.

 

[CoolDisneyCat]

We were at Boma one night and had the kids from you know where beside us.

The boy, about 5, had a baggie of crackers. He was standing in the aisle in front to the table throwing them on the floor, stomping on them, then rubbing them into the carpet.

His sister was coloring on the dishes.

They would scream very loudly about who got to sit where. They rolled on the floor. They crawled under the table. They stood in the chairs. They ran around knocking over chairs at other tables.

After they left, the server was showing us the dishes with red crayon all over them. She said it was the closest she had ever come to asking anyone to leave.

 

[bluejasmine]

I just dont get people... I too have seen so many kids misbehaving while the adults do nothing about it, I wasnt raised like that, I didnt raise my kids like that and I doubt those parents were raised like that. How can you NOT notice when your child is being so loud or obnoxious that it is bothering ppl around you or ppl are staring? Then to compound it by NOT apologizing AND making the kids apologize.. Its unthinkable for me..I always end up shooting the kids and parents dirty looks..Sometimes I even make a point of saying something loudly about it like Im talking to someone in my party and that has even helped a time or two.

CR a few yrs ago, table right above us had a screaming toddler, family sat there ignoring the child scream while they ate and talked. This went on for 20 min finally when our waiter came over I asked him to say something to family b/c we were all ready to give up on our meal and leave. He did, and mother looked annoyed picked up the child and kept talking, few min later put the child back down and it started again until they left 20 min later.. I had such a headache by the time they left and was so annoyed my meal was ruined..

Ohana, we were given a table by the windows and when Wishes started some kids pushed their way between our table and the glass! A waitress came over and shooed them away but they returned back a few times and she finally told them to take her to their parents which they did, they happened to be sitting a few tables over, the parents actually said why couldnt their kids watch the fireworks from there and the waitress told them we were on our honeymoon and there wasnt room enough for them to wedge themselves between our table and the glass, they actually got up and left angry!

Next night sitting at some outside tables at Sleepy Hollow getting ready to watch Spectro and WIshes this family comes and sits at next table.. It was a big family too they all start arguing, then more family members come and start picking a fight, by this time they were cursing and screaming at each other, other ppl were getting up from their tables and leaving! We had steaked out this table early and werent about to give it up, DH said he was gonna tell them we were on the last night of our honeymoon and to pls not ruin it but all of a sudden one of the women in the family became enraged and had a temper tantrum and stormed off, the rest of the family running after her.. So its not kids behaving badly. So sad..

 

[smidgy]

Note to Self: Learn "No Cutting In Line" AND "Shut your Kid Up" in Portuguese.

We were at Boma one night and had the kids from you know where beside us.

The boy, about 5, had a baggie of crackers. He was standing in the aisle in front to the table throwing them on the floor, stomping on them, then rubbing them into the carpet.

His sister was coloring on the dishes.

They would scream very loudly about who got to sit where. They rolled on the floor. They crawled under the table. They stood in the chairs. They ran around knocking over chairs at other tables.

After they left, the server was showing us the dishes with red crayon all over them. She said it was the closest she had ever come to asking anyone to leave.

unfortunately, Disney has decided that guests who behave poorly from another country are more important than guests who behave correctly, from ANY country.

when staying at a value resort in a section with a huge group from same country in July, we encountered line jumping, chanting on attractions to the point you could not hear the attraction, loud yelling and chanting on the bus (to headache levels) with bus driver doing nothing. but, more importantly, at the resort:
huge groups blocking the walkways as we tried to get by with our luggage , not moving aside, giving us dirty looks and swearing at us in Portuguese(sounds enough like spanish that I knew what they were saying), moving our belongings from loungers at the pool and taking the loungers while we went to the DSA (and refusing to give them back), hubby being SHOVED by one of the dads because we were smoking in the DSA (on the hot, metal benches with no shade by the touchdown section) and they were playing soccer there and didn't want us smoking there. and loud carousing till 1am, by our room, including a soccer ball kicked into our window.
we finally had a manger come to our room and apologize, but not before we talked to an "important" Cm on a segway who informed us that "July is Latin month and THEY are OUR guests" quite condescendingly (as if WE were part of OUR, as in, the brazilian group were guests of OURS, as US citizens). no, WE are DISNEY's guests, too!!
I heard a securtiy guard APOLOGIZE to a mom, upset that the kids had to be "quiet" after midnight (the sign clearly states "quiet time after 10pm) that he could "See both sides" ?????? this was after we finally got the resort to make the kids be quiet, and the manager came to see us.

it is not fair for ANY group to misbehave to the point of ruining other guests' enjoyment of the resort, restaurant, attraction, they ALSo paid for!

as far as restaurants, yes, some diners can be overly "cranky". some kids can have "meltdowns". it happens. we all try to ignore the fussy toddler at the next table who is just plain tired, and there's nothing the poor parents can do, try as they might. but a whole group of unruly kids, with parents doing nothing?

this is where management needs to step in and tell the group to adhere by the rules... or leave. if I had a shoe fly onto my table, I would expect that by that point, their behavior was such that the management should have stopped the behavior before that point.
I don't expect to eat at a fancy sit-down rest. and have to put up with that. unacceptable.
a 2 year old at the next table, crying. not pleasant, but to be expected sometimes at Disney. not the same at all.