On 2014-02-21 12:46 PM, sf wrote:

> My DD has a favorite restaurant for breakfast and lunch that is a
> family friendly restaurant called Crepevine. The shift managers (and
> wait staff) are super friendly and make sure you have everything you
> need (like bendy straws and crayons) to keep a toddle corralled and
> happy while waiting for food to be delivered to the table.
>
>


I have seen a couple of places go belly up around here catering to
parents with kids. Actually, it was mothers and kids. There was a place
that had good coffee and baked goods. They didn't have many tables and
there was a corner with a little play area. A small group of young
mothers used to meet there for coffee and the kids would be sent to
play. I suggested to the owner that he should get rid of the kiddie
corner and put in a couple more tables. He said he couldn't do that
because the women with the kids wouldn't come.

The way I saw it was that coffee shops tend to get a lot of business
from men, guys who work on the road, or on various mobile crews, guys
who would never think to make coffee. They get coffee, snacks,
breakfasts and lunch, but they tend to avoid places with kids running
around. The women typically get a coffee and nurse it for a long time.
They don't make any money off the kids. He didn't last too long after
that.

After that place went belly up the women took their business to a place
around the corner. It was a place that had thrived on working guys going
there for breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks. I was not the only one who
stopped going there when it had a bunch of kids running around while the
mothers tuned out their bratty behaviour to enjoy the scintillating
conversation ad the mommy table. That place didn't last much longer.