u/Judgement915

I’ve been a chef for nearly 13 years. I’m no stranger to screaming kids in restaurants. However, this new job I started 5 months ago, completely blows all my experience out of the water. There are one or more screaming babies in the dining room. Every. Single. Service. We do all day service, breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. We have a large, wide staircase in the entrance of the restaurant. All day long we have screaming kids, kids running around into places they shouldn’t go, sometimes followed by an apologetic parent and sometimes not. Kids climbing on the bannisters of the staircase. Kids casually walking in front of servers with arms full of food and drink nearly tripping them, trying to wander into the kitchen while we’re cooking. Pulling the leaves and flowers off of our potted plants. Everything. It’s been miserable. I casually joked with a coworker if we had put out an ad rebranding as a daycare and she hit me with this “a very popular mom influencer put us on a list of the best places to bring your kids” people are literally going out of their way to bring kids into my work. Forcing me to spend my workday surrounded by children (it’s an open kitchen) my gm says it’s good for business, I remind him that strollers and high chairs take up space and don’t generate any revenue but now I’m the bad guy of course. I just don’t want to spend my workday surrounded by other peoples kids FML