These days, there seems to be a proliferation of a sense of entitlement among people. We increasingly live in a totalitarian-like, anti-business environment. We live in a time where people confuse rights with privileges. Worse, they seem to think that society should protect their "rights" for inappropriate logic.
To take a restaurant to the human rights commission for such a frivolous reason leaves me speechless. This is so obtuse and idiotic and plain wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start.
The nanny-state has officially arrived. What part of "freedom" don't Canadians effen grasp? Why must we always involve the state; an UNELECTED, unaccountable body at that!
I side with the Taylor's Genuine Wine and Food restaurant 100%.
Did you know there's a Human Rights Code for restaurants? File under bull shit.
Some 35 years ago We were refused a seat with our three kids ( 6 and 4) at Le Bergerac in, of all places, "Les galeries d'Anjou", a shopping mall.
ReplyDeleteLe Bergerac is long gone, we are still there.
My parents too. But we never made a fuss. Some places patrons want no children. We can't fight all battles.
ReplyDeleteIn this particular case, it sounds as though the restaurant was being reasonable. They didn't refuse the patrons but they did suggest another place might be better. Where is the human rights violation in that? And even if turned away, you may be upset but to feel "violated?" It makes a mockery of people who truly faces HR abuses.
I remember during my time at the bank some people took the habit of coming five minutes to closing and proceeded to do 20 minutes of banking - as if we were there to serve them. One person would hold back 10 people who wanted to go home to their families because they didn't want to be in line.
Of course, you can't tell a person they're self-centered twirp so we started closing the doors five minutes earlier. The man complained but we assured the manager we closed on time. He eventually got the picture and was more reasonable moving forward.
Did we violate his "human rights?"
Of course not.
I believe a restaurant has the right to govern itself however they see fit. The truth is A LOT of patrons don't want kids around them.
And really, it's a WINE bar. What was the mother thinking? Should someone call social services on her?
Reminds me of another story. My wife and I over heard a guy telling the story how he took his FOUR YEAR OLD son to watch Austin Powers at the movies. We looked at each other surprised given it's an ADULT movie. Sure enough what does the moron say? The movie wasn't appropriate for his kid.
People DON'T THINK and when they do, nothing's a big deal it seems.
But hey, his kid, not mine.