Comments on: Battle of the Crumbs https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 23:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-17143 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 02:57:03 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-17143 In reply to Dan.

Probably not. Unless you serve alcohol.

Maybe scone/cocktail bars are going to be the very next craze. A little bran, a little rye, a cinnamon glaze, an olive on a stick, what’s not to like?

]]> By: Dan https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-17090 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:37:35 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-17090 In reply to Anita.

Can you legally disallow children (accompanied or not) in your restaurant, though?

]]> By: Dan https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-17089 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:34:47 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-17089 In reply to sumac.

Maybe you once had a sconce….

]]> By: Matt Rose https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12391 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:45:51 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12391 In reply to Mim.

As a parent of a 15mo old, that mess is nothing. We go out to eat fairly regularly, and our son drops approximately 3/4 of any meal served to him on the floor. We try and clean it up, and usually the wait-people stop us.

The woman who considers that a mess has never had kids, I think.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12384 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:29:31 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12384 In reply to Mim.

Yes, Poore said “What would she have done if I spilled my coffee?”

]]> By: Anita https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12383 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:24:37 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12383 If you allow children in your restaurant, you should not expect them to become anything else when they cross your threshold. It is, however, reasonable to expect parents to parent. Children are not, by their nature, tidy. Tidy is an unreasonable expectation. Reasonably quiet IS a reasonable expectation, and should be a requirement if you expect patronage by the childless…

]]> By: Mim https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12381 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:20:54 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12381 why has no one commented on the fact that the photo of the offending crumbs is so laughably un-messy? I mean really, you want CRUMBS and MESS everywhere, let me and my kids show you what that looks like! Certainly not a few dainty crumbs on a carpet!

]]> By: Pat Adams https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12380 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:59:36 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12380 I’m going out to perform high-pitched monkeyshines.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12378 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:05 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12378 In reply to tanita.

You know, I think I once had a Scone of Stone.

]]> By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/battle-of-the-crumbs/#comment-12377 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:51:49 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1844#comment-12377 It seems to me this woman merely wanted a consequence free way to exercise her pique. Problem is, if you own a service-oriented business like this, AND if you patronize social media, there IS no “consequence-free” anything. When will people get this? Your Facebook wall is like tagging in neon on the exterior of your shop; it is not a private place, and it isn’t attractive graffiti. Does she REALLY want to make people with kids – or anyone who maybe isn’t as neat as her standards demand – think twice before coming in? Is her bottom line so black, then, that it’s okay to turn people away? From a business perspective, this is ludicrous.

PS: I once called the Stone of Scone the Scone of Stone in Scotland. In public. It was embarrassing, especially since Scone is pronounced “skoon,” and I said that wrong, too. It was messy, but at least no crumbs.

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