DS enjoys throwing food off his high-chair tray, like many (most?) kids. No big deal at home, but I am pretty conscious of the mess when we go out. But then, picking up bits of food off a public restaurant floor is also kind of gross. I'm never sure if I should leave it for the staff or do it myself.
We went out for dinner tonight and Jack threw penne pasta EVERYWHERE! I picked it up.
I have done waitressing as a job, and I think it is only fair that a parent picks up food that their child has thrown. It can actually be a hazard for a waitperson or other customers to slip on food that is left on the floor.
ide pick it up. Also have been a waitress too and could think of nothing worse than picking up after someones child. It is also a hazard and i think its the parents responsibity.
If we are out for dinner I always pick up/tidy up after DD. I treat it like we are at home or at a family/friends place plus why should some poor wait person have to pick up food off the floor from my child. That's what I think anyway.
Good, I agree with you all. I always do pick up (usually use a wipe or something), but a few times I have got wierd looks crawling about on the floor and I wondered if I was doing something odd.
I pick up any mess that I consider to be "outside of the norm" which is things on the floor etc. I do generally try to pick up food and put it all on plates and tidy up a little to make it easier for the serving staff to clean up the table. I also clean up any food that just gets onto the tables and put that onto plates when we are finished too. I'm not a naturally neat person (I wish that I was), but I just don't want to make serving staff member's jobs more difficult than they already are. Although, if they are giving crap service then I'm not so eager to clean up mind you.
I generally will clean up as much as I can, Generally there is not too much mess as once DS throws a few bits on floor thats it I know not to give him more as he has had enough.
Like Danni if a place gives crap service or dodgy food I am less inclined to clean up.
i wish ds1 only threw food.
We pick up after him, one night though we went to an italian restaurant, a family one that had white paper on the tables as a table cloth and gave you a basket of crayons for them to draw on it with.
DS1 threw the crayon at the next table and it landed on someones plate - no food in there thank god, and the whole table cracked up laughing
We went out tonight and yup mummy was cleaning up after Sir Throws- A-Lot lol. Im guilty of when I take him to work and he makes a mess cleaning the whole dining room though.
I always have for the reason Raven said and also they are often so busy that they may not have time to do more than clear the table and I would hate to think that the next people that came along to that table thought the waitresses were slack or that the restaurant was dodgy because my kids threw food on the floor kwim.
i allways pick it up as i do it at home and what i do at home i implement when out lol that and if murray sees food he eats it kinda gross when ur out and u have a 2 and ahalf year old licking the floor
omg, we've been away for the last few days, and on friday night we stayed in a resort, matilda made this massive mess in the restraunt. i was cleaning it up off the floor and the waitress came and shooed me away so she could get it with a dustpan and brush. i always try and clean up as much as i can, and if the waitresses stop me, i apologise for my horrible children...
I clean up after them but usually I ask for the tools to do it. I couldn't be bothered scrambling around on the floor with serviettes so I usually ask for a dustapn and broom and if they spill thier food I'll get a cloth for it. If they do it for me I leave a bigger tip than normal.
We always pick up after DD, often a waitress will see & say 'oh dont worry we can do that' but I always pick it up as much as I can. Especially with my DD, she can be quite messy at times!
We went out with one of my bro's and his kids, and I was ashamed when we left with the amount of crap left on floor by them (DD wasn't eating at that stage, so didn't contribute to the mess)..
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At a restaurant, do you pick up after your child?
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