Why Can’t Restaurants Hurry Up My Order When I Have A Toddler At Home?





S:

Don’t restaurants know that if you have a baby with you and you tell them that your toddler who has barely ever been away from you has been left with your friend and neighbor so you can go out for a birthday dinner with your husband, that they should probably hurry up your dinner order? And that if you are the only ones in the entire restaurant, they should be able to get your order out in under an hour? And that a nervous mom will continue to watch the kitchen door and then the cell phone and the kitchen door until your food arrives?

B:

Seriously! You would think this would be common knowledge. I took the boys to Panera for lunch yesterday. Elliot was in the stroller and started crying and screaming while I was ordering our food. The woman taking our order stopped, looked at Elliot, and started talking to him. She asked him what was wrong as if a) he was going to tell her and b) she was going to cheer him up. I quickly told her that he wanted to be out of the stroller but I couldn’t take him out until I could get to a table and chairs so we needed to hurry and finish ordering. I hope I didn’t sound too rude but c’mon! A mom is there alone with two kids and one is crying and you aren’t doing everything in your power to get your job done so she can move along???? I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

Or you could just stay home since, you know, it’s not our problem that you have mommy issues…

I am a mom as well and I don’t expect other people to cater to me just because I am one. Get over yourselves! If it is that big of a deal to go out keep yourself at home!