would this have annoyed you?

[diesel]

My husband just got back from a guys weekend of golfing at Disney. There were 4 of them. They had reservation at Teppan Edo. There was a party of 8 adults and 5 children that were there. The adults all sat at their own table and the 5 kids were seated with my husband and his friends. My husband found this very annoying and requested to be moved but they had nothing available. They did not have a good time. I just think it’s odd to sit 4 adult men with 5 children whom they don’t know. Does anyone else find this odd? I’m sure the parents had a great time since their kids were seated somewhere else. I could see doing this at a regular sit down restaurant but not at one where the kids would be seated with other people.

 

[Sandi]

Yeah, that would have annoyed me, too. What were the adults with those children thinking?

 

[Pakey]

We had this happen to us at a restaurant locally that was set up like Teppen Edo. The kids sat there and pushed and shoved each other, one was yelling. One of the children even picked up my adult son's beer bottle by the opened top, putting his hands all over it.

If the children had been quiet and well behaved, it would not have annoyed me.

 

[walkdmc]

I would've been annoyed. It was rude of the other adults to pawn their kids off on another table. I'm surprised they even allow this since they give the whole "seat children away from the cooktop" spiel upon seating people. If the kids were young enough, that could be a liability issue, IMO.

Not to mention what 4 men on a "guys golfing trip" want to deal with a bunch of kids? I have kids and say, "no thanks" to that!

 

[1GR8DISNEYFAN]

This deffinately would have annoyed me! Not that it was the kids fault, but it was inconsiderate of the restaurant and the parents of the children. If I want to dine with children, then I will take my own.

 

[Kay1]

For me, it would depend on how the children behaved. If they were perfect angels I would have just ignored them and not been bothered.

 

[DaisyMaisie]

How old were the kids? If they were well behaved preteens or teens, I would remember that when you go into that type of restaurant you don't get to pick your table mates. If they were small children I don't think the restaurant should have allowed it, unless they were at their very own table right next to their parents.

If they were small children, I might have very sweetly told the parents they may not want their kids hearing our "adult" conversation, after all some if the adults could have switched with the kids.

 

[n2mm]

OP, I would be annoyed too. But I've seen this happen several times during my dining experiences at WDW. I've watched as parties were separated and the kids were at one table and adults another. The kids were disruptive, but the parents were on vacation and no longer parenting their children. Not sure what I would do other than not dine there. Doesn't sound like a good dining experience. If I leave my grandkids at home, I surely don't plan to babysit anyone elses.

 

[TDC Nala]

The ideal arrangement would probably be at least one parent seated beside their own children.

I guess we are now on notice that this could happen at Teppan Edo. I was starting to consider eating lunch there this week. I would not enjoy being the adult from another seating party at the "kids table." Although I'm sure the parents of the kids thought it was cute.

If the kids were teenagers, I wouldn't care.

 

[cbg1027]

I would have been super annoyed by that. I think it was completely inappropriate, no matter how well the kids behaved.

It's one thing to seat children at a different table, but other adult patrons should not have to sit with them. The adults from the other party should have dispersed themselves among the kids at the 2 tables.

I would have said something to a manager if that had happened to me.

 

[WDW Lover]

That wasn't right... I would have walked out of the restaurant. That was unacceptable no matter what their ages were!

 

[hardrock01]

no not cool, but this can happen to you at german restaurant as well with the group seating!!!!!!!

 

[ElizabethB]

No way would a restaurant manager and the kids' parents do that to me!

I would have found a different restaurant or given up and ordered room service.

It's easy to walk over to the Swan/Dolphin and one can generally get into one of the non-Disney restaurants there even without an ADR.

 

[kaligal]

Yeah, it would have bugged me. Lots of things that some of the children at WDW do bug me.

However, you really can't go to WDW and then be surprised that there are children...or that some of them behave badly.

If you want to avoid kids in a restaurant, WDW is a poor choice.

 

[B.B. Sots]

Depends on the age of the children and if they were behaving. If they were younger than 13, I would really question the parenting and the decision making ability of the seater... Not sure why the restaurant would allow them to sit without parents if they are super young.

 

[Uncleromulus]

Odd to say the least. Just curious if the children (ages?) were well behaved, or were they wandering over to their own adults table for conversation, etc??

THis is just one reason why we avoid "group seating" establisments altogether

 

[lurkernj]

Yeah, it would have bugged me. Lots of things that some of the children at WDW do bug me.

However, you really can't go to WDW and then be surprised that there are children...or that some of them behave badly.

If you want to avoid kids in a restaurant, WDW is a poor choice.

I think you missed the point. Had they been seated with a parent and three children, they probably wouldn't have cared. I actually don't see where it was mentioned that the kids behaved badly.

But regardless of their behavior, I find that weird that the restaurant allowed those kids to be seated without "their own" adult with them to supervise. Also, what were those parents thinking! I would never inflict my children on a table of strange adults without me being there to make sure they behaved appropriately.

 

[Pumbaa_]

it would have annoyed me enough to leave the restaurant if they could not have accomodated a request to not sit with unattended children

Too many other places to dine in Disney

 

[AggieTexan]

Yeah, it would have bugged me. Lots of things that some of the children at WDW do bug me.

However, you really can't go to WDW and then be surprised that there are children...or that some of them behave badly.

If you want to avoid kids in a restaurant, WDW is a poor choice.

I kind of disagree with you. The complaint isn't about children in a restaurant, it's about unsupervised children in a restaurant being seated at a table with adult strangers instead of their parents. At the very least, the parents should have split up so that there was at least one familiar adult with the children.

I would absolutely not have stayed. It wouldn't have mattered if they were perfect angels...I just don't think the children should have been seated as they were.

 

[kathie859]

If a parent sat their unsupervised child at my communal table, I'd be a little irritated. it's Disney, so kids are everywhere---but I expect their parents to sit with them---not with four strangers. It seems weird that the hostess allowed it.