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Okay, trending tonight, going out to dinner with your kids can be challenging. We're learning about a restaurant near San Francisco getting a lot of attention for its strict policy about kids. Kevin Coe spoke with the owner about why he did it.
Shay Shway means House of Shway in French. Located in Foster City, run by Yo-Yo Shway and his family.
"I see inviting people like you to my restaurant as inviting my guests and you know, into my home. I expect people to treat that with the respect that visiting someone's home would entail."
So, imagine your home eating dinner. There's a child lying there getting changed.
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After they're getting their diapers changed right next to another customer who looked mortified. The sight and smell ruined most appetites that night, but it was just one of several incidents Shway paid the price for. That's why he implemented this new policy shown on their menu. It asked parents to ensure children remain seated and any unruly behavior could get the whole table kicked out.
Mhm.
Parents are also financially liable for all damage caused by their children. One incident cost a parent $327 for a smashed credit card machine, while another for about five bucks after a kid smashed a teacup on the ground.
"The principle. I have $5. It's not about that $5 broken teacup. It's about the fact that you came into here not respecting the rules. You let your child play around. They caused some sort of damage. You should be directly responsible."
A lot of people very quietly tell me that they support this policy because they don't want to be seen as nosy or, you know, like disruptive to other parents.
Chicken.
That's not the case for Jacqueline Grubb who came to the restaurant for the first time after learning about the policy.
"So, when someone actually stands up and says something like this, it's admirable."
When I was growing up, we were taught and we were conditioned to say if you embarrass me when I go out, when we go out, I'mma embarrass you when we get home. And while we out, I was, when we were being raised, Mama said, and I don't care if we was just going over to somebody else's house. Mama said, if you act a fool and embarrass me when you out, I'mma embarrass you when we get home. Now, when we was at home, we was out of control cuz we had the autonomy to do what we wanted to do. We was open, we was fighting, we was getting into all kind of nonsense. But when we went out with Mama and Daddy, when we went out with Mama and Daddy, all of the parents would have to say, "Oh my God, your kids are so well-behaved." And somewhere along the line we lost that cuz we started getting into gentle parenting, we start getting politically correct, we start saying that you couldn't discipline your kids in public.