Cafe Owner Kicks Family with Kids Out of His Store Gets Praised for His Decision by Others

A restaurant debacle ignited a conversation about parenting on social media after the owner “apologetically” asked a family to leave because of how their children behaved. One other patron said he was inconsiderate of the kids, while others supported his decision.

In an interview, a Queensland resident, Laura Edwards, revealed that a couple got kicked out of Adele’s Cafe because their children were crying. Edwards filmed a video while outside the establishment on Magnetic Island.

In the clip where she was asking people not to support the business, the Australian native furiously slammed the cafe for telling the family to exit the coffee shop while criticizing them for their decision.

She called the decision an “absolutely disgusting” one. In the background of her video, a child is crying, and it is unsure if it is one of the kids in question. Of the incident, Edwards claimed:

“It wasn’t a meltdown or tantrum. My kids make more noise than these kids do; it was just a grizzly kid needing some help to sort through his emotions at the time. The parents were sitting down with them; they weren’t running riot.”

When she arrived, she reportedly approached the family at the cafe and asked whether they had been asked to leave because their kids were crying. Edwards, who admitted she quarreled with the staff at the ice cream shop, claimed both parents appeared stunned and upset by this, and their children were in tears.

However, the cafe co-owner, Adrian Dalloste, described the encounter differently. He reportedly revealed that the children became angry after being told they would have to share a gelato between them, adding they spent 15 minutes throwing a tantrum, which bothered other patrons.

“One of the children swiped decorations from the counter and threw a steel flask on the tile floor,” he said. “While leaving, the children were screaming loudly. […] The crying and screaming was constant and loud,” Adrian explained.

He claimed the kids’ father yelled at him after he “apologetically asked them to leave.” After that, Dalloste walked back inside the cafe, as the family was seated outdoors, and said he wanted to avoid any more confrontation with the couple, who, at that point, had become “quite vocal.”

Dalloste further expressed that he was confused by Edwards’ intervention because it had nothing to do with her and that she had only arrived after he had asked the family to leave.

An article about the incident was shared on Kidspot’s Facebook page. Several social media users weighed in, and a few applauded Dalloste’s decision to kick the family out of the cafe.

“Good on him. I wouldn’t have waited that long,” commented a Facebook user. Another penned that she would have voluntarily opted to leave the premises if she were in that position.“If my child was acting like that, I would have left. I hate when kids are allowed to carry on upsetting other customers – it is the reason I rarely went out when my children were younger,” the user explained.

Someone else wrote, “If they were destructive, then, yes, they should’ve been asked to leave. The safety of the other patrons needs to be taken into consideration.”

“She needs to keep her nose out. She just turned up and didn’t know what happened to start with,” one other person commented while referring to Edwards. The user further stated that if her children had fought over sharing an ice cream, then they would not have gotten it in the first place and would’ve been taken home. “I think the owner did the correct thing, if the parents couldn’t control them, then out you go.”

One Facebook user said the issue lies with the parents, who, as adults, should have voluntarily decided to leave the eatery once they realized the kids could not be kept calm. “I brought up three kids. The minute they started to get restless or play up, we would leave their kids. You can’t expect them to sit and dine like adults.”

“Good riddance. I would have clapped. So over entitled parents thinking their feral kids are little angels that everybody else has to pander to,” said one person.

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