At this point, yes. they obviously still want the families money because they limit it to only 10. How can you say you want to create a adult experience and still allow 10 year olds who will probably be just as disruptive as a 9 year old?
Ok, so they're banning all kids, which they're defining as children under age 10. I guess they figure most kids above 10 can handle a fancy dinner. I really don't see how setting the cutoff at some higher age would be any more reasonable.
There probably isn't much difference between 10- and 9-year-olds, but there is some difference. You could make the same argument no matter what age they use for the cutoff. If they set it at age 18, you could argue that 17-year-olds would be almost as mature.
I'm a big fan of Whitney. I believe they are our future, we should teach them well and let them lead the way...
Look, maturity is something that kids gain gradually, right? Why would you assume that kids don't mature at all between the ages of 9 and 10?
What's the reason for all age limits? What constitutes a senior citizen? The drinking age? Driving age? Underage females who look older then they really are but lie to you and then she told me she left her license at home so we did it in the heat of the moment and now I'm a little nervous? When it comes down to it you can argue they are all arbitrary.
No, they might be almost as bad, but the average 10-year-old will be more mature than the average 9-year-old. They needed to set an age limit somewhere, and they chose 10. I don't see anything "stupid" about that, and I wonder what you would have them do instead.
The problem is that the same argument can be made at any cutoff. That is what happens when you have a boundary line. Everyone can agree that an 18 year old is much more likely to behave in a restaurant than a 2 year old, but people abutting the boundary from either side are going to have as much variation within their own group as there is across the groups. The same is true in any area we have an age limit. Is a person magically able to handle alcohol at 21, cigarettes at 18, driving at 16 and war fighting at 17, all exactly on their birthday? Should we delay people a month that were born a month premature?
Just when I think I can't be surprised at the things that people will argue about, the BBS doesn't fail me!
It's also WIDELY used for business conventions. My wife ate there once at an EY convention. I remember her telling me about it. Definitely NOT a place for kids. I guess if I was on an expense account, noisy kids wouldn't bother me much, but if I was spending that kind of money myself on a meal, you could bet it would be for a very special occasion. I guess your own kids are almost always cute, but other people's kids can be damn annoying--especially when unhappy........I can't imagine any kids under ten enjoying getting dressed up in stuffy clothes and then having to sit through a dinner of things they most assuredly are not accustomed to. I hate to pile on, but this is a good decision by Disney. For the few people they may piss off with this rule, they are definitely enhancing the experience for the vast majority of this restaurant's core audience.
