DISNEY restaurant bans children

[DS1]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Children are no longer welcome at Walt Disney World's swankiest restaurant.

Victoria and Albert's in the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa says children under ten years old are no longer welcome.

The restaurant's general manager says based on research and feedback, it was the right move to make for a better dining experience for adults.

Victoria and Albert's has won AAA's prestigious five-diamond rating. But its new policy is still a rarity in the restaurant business.
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[GOPisEvil]

1. This made my irony meter explode.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I'm okay with this, actually.

There are so many choices in Disney for families and there are some folks who go there to get married and would like an evening away from screaming babies.

Now, I have to go get my :popcorn:

[AlCzervik]

5. move over so i can sit down.

:D

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Want something to drink?

:beer:

[AlCzervik]

7. i have some tea, can i make you a cup?

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Ooh, that'd be great. With lemon if you please.

[auntAgonist]

17. may I have some too? w/ a little bit'o'honey?

:popcorn:


:hi:

aA

[sasquatch]

Nope, you can only have midlo's boxed wine

:D

[fishnfla]

25. Cup of tea? At V&A's? That will be $16.50

We could never afford to eat there

[sasquatch]

21. Yeah how dare they interrupt Matcom & TM's honeymoon

:evilgrin:

[matcom]

27. we didn't honeymoon at corporate Disney!

oh HELL NO!

I took her to Chucky Cheese and then we picked up some watermelon wine coolers and went 'parking' out in the woods!

:D

[sasquatch]

29. She's too young for Chucky Cheese, Dave and Busters is more up her alley

I think they have Franzia there as well.

[matcom]

33. all out of Franzia

Midlo had lunch there that afternoon :eyes:

[supernova]

24. Totally agree

It's not like there aren't plenty of places to take your kids out to eat at Disney World.

[lost-in-nj]

28. I agree

there are lots of restaurants for the kids...
there are places in Pleasure Island kids can't go in to either......


lost

[KitchenWitch]

3. Another pathetic attempt by Disney to be all things to all people.

[lightningandsnow]

4. What are they going to do, ask for ID?

I don't know many 12 or 13 year olds who carry around ID. So, if you've got a young looking 11 or 12 year old, what are they going to do?

[flvegan]

9. I can't believe you didn't post this in GD.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. He's a coward.

[flvegan]

13. I'm hoping he sees this as the dare it was intended to be.

[DS1]

15. go ahead and post it

I really couldn't give a rat fuck about GD :)

[Orangepeel]

10. So what?

It's hardly the only place to eat at Disney.

[datasuspect]

12. i would still let kids come in

but only with leashes and muzzles.

or create a slop trough near the Dumpster that kids can eat out of. they can dub it the "solid waste stream learnatorium." that way it can be educational. fill it with chicken fingers and nachos. and drunk teenagers in disney character costumes dancing around the whole mess.

[underpants]

14. Mickey says I'm NUMBER ONE!

:bounce:

[no name no slogan]

16. As long as they allow breastfeeding, I'm cool with it

[auntAgonist]

18. but .. then the breastfeeding children would be 10 + years old?

:rofl:

:)
aA

[no name no slogan]

20. Who said anything about children?

:hide:

[auntAgonist]

22. omg !!

:rofl: :rofl:

:hide:


:hi:

[matcom]

19. THE.PERFECT.THREAD.

:applause:

[sasquatch]

23. Post #21

[Deja Q]

26. And what do adults want to do in the restaurant?

Unless it's "touch the Little Mermaid inappropriately, just like how the 9 year old children were doing", I expect that restaurant is about to lose a lot of business.

With many Disney characters being lame in the first place, I never figured out how he got to be famous...

[rug]

30. Hooters has a children's menu.

Hooters characterizes itself as a neighborhood place, not a typical family restaurant. Sixty-eight percent of customers are male, most between the ages of 25-54. Hooters does not market itself to families, but they do patronize the restaurants. Ten percent of the parties we serve have children in them. Hooters is in the hospitality business and provides the best possible service to anyone coming through the door. For this reason, the chain offers a children's menu.

http://hooters.com/company/about_hooters/

[JVS]

31. Well sometimes the kids get hungry sitting around waiting for mom to finish work

[rug]

32. They could always breastfeed on their breaks.

[pstokely]

34. Divorced dads (like KFed) probably bring their kids there

[PassingFair]

37. A friend of mine had her one year old's birthday party at Hooters.

Just to PISS OFF HER MOTHER-IN-LAW.

True Story!

[LibertyLover]

35. As the mother of a 5 year old daughter

and in a family who goes to Walt Disney World as often as we can afford it, I have no problem with Disney banning children under 10 from Victoria and Albert's Restaurant. It is a wonderful place to vacation with a child, but occassionally you want to get away from kids. On several occassions while there we have gotten a babysitter and gone out to dinner. We have never done V&As (way too expensive) but we have gone to some of the nicer restaurants either in EPCOT or the deluxe hotels and it is very nice not to have to deal with my tired, cranky kid and to be able to focus on my husband for a couple of hours. I've noticed on the last trip or two that a number of the nicer table service restaurants are being patronized by more adults without children. It's kind of nice.

[CreekDog]

36. Well, they had better make those placemat mazes more difficult!