4 Year Old Kid kicked out of restaurant for wearing TMNT shirt!
 

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My Video Response!

Correction: kicked out for wearing a t-shirt

i cant really fault the resturant...certain places have dress codes no matter the age its just a thing

and it wasn't just because he had a tmnt shirt is was just because it was a tshirt in general

He's a kid. He's four. You can't expect him to understand that being a "gentleman" means wearing a suit and bow tie.

Glad to see one of the higher-ups used his common sense, though.

Saw that a bit ago. Something about a dress code it seems... My question is, what the heck kind of restaurant is this that someone would decide to take a 4-year-old to that has fancy dress code. o.O Was the rest of the family dressed casually?


In ur fancy restaurant wearin' mah t-shirt, talking on my t-phone.

Parents fault for not having the kid properly dressed, but. The manager could have been more forgiving with the dress code considering it's a 4 year old kid, and apparently the manager understood the dress ode wrong, but that seems more like the restaurant is laying themselves flat since the parents went to the media which was a unnecessary idiotic move.

F that place and their dress code. Take that kid to Applebees or somewhere that you don't have to dress like you're going to a wedding or something.

Anyone place I cannot be seen in a TMNT shirt is not a place I am interested being seen in.

To be fair, I'd kick anybody out of my restaurant for wearing that shirt.

Viral marketing for the movie, obviously.</sarcasm>

Fixed the video for ya, Good thing the Restaurant saw the errors of there ways, and apologized to the family after.

This has nothing to do with TMNT except that the kid just happened to be wearing a TMNT shirt. Just an article that is trying to create a story out of something that isn't there and some guy trying to get hits to his reaction video of a non-story.

You don't ever plan on ever going to a formal event/restaurant, hell people can wear shirts at your wedding?

The error of their ways? They did nothing wrong and are only apologizing trying to get good PR since the family went to the media. I don't want some brat in a t-shirt because some parents don't understand what a dress code is

agreed, the restaurant did nothing wrong (and this has nothing to do with TMNT is just a happy accident )

this is just a case of my kid is more special than everyone else and deserves the world to be given to him just because

they couldve scoped the place out first or just as easy gone elsewhere

That's stupid, he's only a kid. I'm glad the manager fixed things up.

Wow, that Jared sure is a great guy! & if he didn't make sure we knew at every turn of a corner, I'd be out of the loop! God forbid you make a post that doesn't self-promote.

Dress code is dress code. If some moron can't abide by that & dress their kid accordingly too, that's their fault.

My 2 year old has that same set.....but I digress.

Dress code aside, you typically wouldn't take a young kid to a restaurant where one of the appetizers costs as much as $14. Seems like another case of adults not thinking and then raising a stink when called out on their idiocy. I mean, the place doesn't even have a references to kids in the menu (a separate, specialized, menu or some sort of reduced price for a smaller portion)...they aren't expected here.

What a weird place. It's like they're trolling the guys. I think, just to bug him, I'd love to come in from messing around out in the garden for an hour and like "hey, lets go out to dinner... lets go to this place. Oh me? Nah, I don't need to change, but you'll need to go put on a dress shirt and clean slacks."

If I were the father of that kid I would have punched the manager in his face and then stormed out in a rage of fury.

Of course you would...

Preeeetty much. I also like how he just had to mention the $100 rib-eye. Whoa, dude, ballin'.

Jester you know if someone tried to do something to your boy in public and forced him out of somewhere, regardless of what it was, you would be angry as well.

Sometimes being a parent goes beyond following the rules.

This would make a great tagline for a nineties action-comedy flick about a dad who has to rescue his kid.

I think the main problem was that the shirt was sleeveless. What I find funny though is that the t-shirt is based off the old toon and not the Nick show.

You don't punch someone's lights out just because they did something you do not agree with. Is that really your idea of living in society?

It would depend, really. I don't think I'd take my son to a swanky restaurant like that and if I did and we didn't meet the dress code, we would probably leave...it's their restaurant. They have a dress code because it's a nice place...a place most people would think twice before bringing a kid into anyway.

"Great action mixed with the raw emotion of being a parent that was dumb enough to bring a kid to a 5 star swanky restaurant. I laughed I cried, I was thoroughly entertained"- Siskel & Ebert give it 2 thumbs up!

I agree! And it would easily do better than Last Action Hero... but what wouldn't?

If going to I restaurant that has a dress code then it is there own fault that they got kicked

Yeah, I've really got zero sympathy for the family in this situation - if you're going to a place with a dress code, dress accordingly. If you're not dressed appropriately, go somewhere else.

I'm not the most conventional-looking person in the world and I actually go out of my way to avoid fancy restaurants with dress codes as I'm aware I probably wouldn't comply, and don't want to have to put some poor employee through the embarrassment of kicking me out.

I'm hard-pressed to really see the problem with this one.

And hey Dawn - I like Last Action Hero! :P

The problem I have is the kid was FOUR YEARS OLD. I mean, if an adult when in with a shirt like that, sure, I get it, but a FOUR YEAR OLD?! Gimme a break.

Rules are rules, no matter how old your are.

As much as it might suck getting asked to leave a restaurant, the family's at fault. If you wanna go to a high class restaurant among high class people, then play their game and follow their dumb dress code. Simple as that.

The only real problem I have with this is his shirt didn't have any sleeves. I have no problem with sleeveless shirts, I just don't think you should wear them in restaurants. Other than that, I think they shouldn't of kicked them out cause the kid was just four.

Me too, but we are in the minority, lol. I came across the Schwarzenegger action figure from that movie a while back and got such a kick out of it! lol

Heh, a friend of mine produced a song for that flick's soundtrack. At least the tunes were good. :trazz:

Yeah but it's the parents fault for dressing the kid that way and then expecting that it wouldn't be a problem at the restaurant/tavern/whatever - it's nothing to do with the kid's age. That's like saying that someone can bring an infant into a restaurant wearing nothing but a disposable nappy, cuz hey, it's just a baby.

This sort of thing is annoying because it's unfair to the other diners who did abide by the rules - especially the other parents present (if any) who did make the effort to dress their children properly.

Furthermore, I'm expected to abide by the rules, so I don't see why someone else should be given special treatment just because they have a child. If you start making exceptions, what's the point in having rules at all?

This is exactly why the next generation are going to grow up to be entitled little iphone brats with no concept of consequences and no consideration for others - because their helicopter parents have paved the road for their precious little snookums and made sure that the entire world has to conform to what they want. Then, when they hit the real world and have to deal with a job and a boss who doesn't kiss their butt, and mommy and daddy can't come to the rescue, they can't cope.

It irritates the crud out of me that they're making this look as if it had to do with the Turtles, when it didn't - it had to do with a set of "the world revolves around my child" parents who, instead of accepting that it doesn't, run bawwwing to the media.

I'm sorry I'm being a bitca today, I'm hormonal in case you hadn't noticed. :lol: But my point remains valid nonetheless!

I mean ok, some rules are stupid and are made to be broken - obviously it's about the context and the situation; but this is just frosts my flakes. What does it say when we've sunk so far as a society that someone runs to the media (who of course, pay attention because they're morons), just because they're told "no" to something as trivial as a tshirt? It's not like someone's civil rights were getting violated here - they were asked to dress appropriately for the restaurant according to the restaurant's rules.

So well said. & you're not a bitch for saying it, that's just real talk.

As I said on FB I wonder if the whole family was called out as being inappropriately dressed and poor Junior was traipsed out to the public because of the whole, "How could they do that to a widdle kid....what meanies."

When I'm pms-ing, I channel you, Powder! :lol: j/k

I think it was stupid of the parents to put the kid in a T-shirt, but I also think that it was stupid for the restaurant to enforce it on the child.

Not because kids should get away with anything, not to be an exception to the rules, but for publicity sake.

EVEN IF the restaurant was just following their own rules, things like this can be misunderstood, there can be so much misunderstanding, the information could go one sided publicly and there could be massive backlash and bad press because of it. Which it seems like there kind of was. It's sort of that 'customers are always right' even when they are not.

And the kid is 4. If they were stopped at the door, the people would have a chance to change the clothes, if they were already sitting, they should have let them stay.


I think the best move should have been a manager or higher up talking to the parents and kind of giving them a warning. Like "We'll let it slide this time, but next time we need everyone to follow the dress code." Then let them finish their stay.

Coming from someone that works in the food business, sometimes bending the rules to get someone to come back or avoiding bad press is the smarter choice than being a rule stickler.

So, both are at fault, the restaurant is just at fault that they are being under fire. I have no sympathy for either one. They both made bad choices.