Coffee Bar Bans Pushchairs.....

[Primal Scream]

btw, I like kids, I have two boys of my own now in their twenties, the thing is they knew how to behave in restaurants and not act like little spoilt brats.

Showing my prejudices now but no doubt the yummy mummy with a rich husband and a chelsea tractor in leafy Highgate and an overweaning sense of entiltlement does not consider giving others outside her social/econimic group any consideration the same as when they park as they like when dropping off the kids at school complete with illegal parking. Lots of assumptions there but wtf its how I feel about that type.

 

[Arch]

I'd happily go there... and I'd have chosen them for this one rule had Berlin been closer whilst either of ours were at that age.

As a relevant aside, I find militant pram pushers (often identified by Child On Board signs) to be amongst the most obnoxious of the militant self-appointed 'I've-got-rights' brigades.

It's the militant anythings that are the problem. Prams, mobility scooters, bikes, cars... Once some people get a thing with wheels, they just have to be top dog. They're the same people who'd barge through a crowd, because they are simply More Important, and mustn't be impeded.

Not all people are like it, and not all people like it have wheeled accoutrements.

I haven't read the article, but the cafe in question sounds a bit serious for me. Anyway, NT and I are just off (without prams or bikes or anything) to Costas to people watch for a bit.

 

[Norm]

Anyway, NT and I are just off (without prams or bikes or anything) to Costas to people watch for a bit.

In Berlin?

 

[asterix]

Coffee shops?! Who needs 'em?

 

[Arch]

In Berlin?

No....

If we go to Germany, it'll be to Hamburg to see Miniatur-Wunderland

But not this weekend.

 

[Primal Scream]

Coffee shops?! Who needs 'em?

eer, me

 

[EltonFrog]

Troll alert!

Who? Where?

 

[EltonFrog]

I think Children should be banned from coffee shops, I'd go in more often then.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Isn't the real issue the coffee shop doesn't have it's interior space sorted to accomodate it's customers?

 

[EltonFrog]

Isn't the real issue the coffee shop doesn't have it's interior space sorted to accomodate it's customers?

t'aint really and issue, it's much ado about nothing, a business owner has every right to decide how he runs his business, if he doesn't want pushchairs in his bar, than that's up to him, if he wants to serve up pretentious poncey coffee to silly shallow people that is his decision. If pushchair owners don't like it, they can got to StarCosta instead.

 

[Milo]

t'aint really and issue, it's much ado about nothing, a business owner has every right to decide how he runs his business, if he doesn't want pushchairs in his bar, than that's up to him, if he wants to serve up pretentious poncey coffee to silly shallow people that is his decision. If pushchair owners don't like it, they can got to StarCosta instead.

In this case yes. However business owners have many restrictions on how they run their firms these days and rightly so IMO.

 

[The Jogger]

Isn't the real issue the coffee shop doesn't have it's interior space sorted to accomodate it's customers?

I know it's not a pub but customers in pushchairs? That's just pushing it one step too far............

 

[gavintc]

I think Children should be banned from coffee shops, I'd go in more often then.

Was in London last night, we popped into a smart coffee shop for brekkies. It was full of uncontrolled screamers. Why, oh why do some parents think it is OK to release and ignore their children in a coffee shop while they have a civilised chat with their friends. Bloody rug rats.

 

[The Jogger]

The costa I use (sometmes) has an upstairs and guess what, no puchchairs.............

 

[The Jogger]

Was in London last night, we popped into a smart coffee shop for brekkies. It was full of uncontrolled screamers. Why, oh why do some parents think it is OK to release and ignore their children in a coffee shop while they have a civilised chat with their friends. Bloody rug rats.

This is so true, they let them run off and disturb others quiet time, some of them even think the brats are entertaining...............