Parenting

model citizens in a restaurant. More than once one of us took a crying or mis-behaving child outside.

That said, we learned early to to frequent restaurants that had paper mats on the table and provided crayons for kids. We also tended to bring along things for them to play with. We also preferred restaurants with a high ambient noise level. It takes time for kids to learn how to behave in a nice restaurant.

The story does sound as if the restaurateur is simply a jerk, and those kids were not ill-behaved. Since I wasn't there, I don't actually know.