RESTAURANT HANDS OUT "HOW CHILDREN SHOULD BEHAVE" CARDS

A Texas restaurant is giving parents with kids a rule card about proper table manners when they get seated. For the last few months, Cuchara, a Mexican restaurant located in the suburbs of Houston, has been handing out a colorful card showing a happy family eating with text below that reads: “Children at Cuchara don’t run or wander around the restaurant. They stay seated and ask their parents to take them to the restroom. They don’t scream, throw tantrums or touch the walls, murals, windows or other patrons. They are respectful!” The move comes after the restaurant suffered $1500 in damage six months ago after a child scratched one of its walls which feature hand painted murals. Ana Beaven, owner of Cuchara, says, “We’re busy serving and cleaning and moving around and we cannot babysit a child.” The restaurant also features other pieces of authentic Mexican art that Beaven says she does not want to see broken. So far, the restaurant says the reaction to the cards has been overwhelmingly positive. “If we’ve had 200 responses to this, there’s been maybe three that were negative and said they would never come to the restaurant. The other 197 applauded and said it was way overdue.”
* A rule card about proper table manners. That’d be great if the kids are old enough to read.
* Hand-painted murals? Wow, they took the decor in that place pretty seriously.
* Maybe you shouldn’t be serving food in an art museum?
* There is a simpler approach: “You break it, you bought it.”
* How about moving all the tables to the center of the room?
* The Mexican restaurant I go to just has a sign for Dos Equis on the wall.
* Hey, that’s all I need.
* It gives us time to work on our impressions of the most interesting man in the world: “Stay thirsty my friends.”