Restaurant Bans Kids After Too Many Tantrums

Publish date: Wednesday, 8 Jul 2015, 11:03AM

A heated stoush between an Australian mother and an upmarket restaurant's management has led to a complete ban on all children under seven.

Flynn's Restaurant in Yungaburra Queensland, a boutique, award-winning French and Italian restaurant, has banned young children at its dinner sittings for the last two years.

However, following a Sunday morning dispute between a toddler's mother and staff, the ban has been extended to all opening hours.

In a Tripadvisor review the mother, Christine Hall, said the family lunch became "memorable for all the wrong reasons". "We were a family group of four with a two-year-old. Unfortunately she became upset over lunch and was crying in her high chair."

However, Mrs Hall denied her child was being disruptive, as they were in the "furthest corner and only two other guests in an adjacent dining room".

The mother also said the owner was quite rude when he asked them to keep the noise down. "Within a few minutes he returned and asked us to take 'the child' out of the restaurant."

She said a heated discussion followed and within half an hour of their departure the no child policy ban had been enforced.

Owner Liam Flynn, told the NZ Herald he had given the parents a chance to appropriately deal with their upset child and while he admitted being brisk, has denied being rude.

He said the child was not just crying but "screaming, I could hear her from my kitchen, so I knew the other guests could hear her too".

Mr Flynn, who had a 14-year-old son, said he had nothing against children and would be happy to have them in his restaurant, if the parents managed them appropriately. "When my child had a tantrum I would have removed him."

He said in his 14 years of running the restaurant the majority of parents would not remove their children so decided to enforce the complete ban!