Restaurant refuses to sing happy bday to 6 yr old

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Kind of douchey, but I'm glad that more restaurants are beginning to take this approach. Nothing kills the conversation in a restaurant faster than 15 waiters singing happy birthday to someone.

Take the little [censored] to Chuck E Cheese if you want somewhere that will shut down to sing him happy birthday.

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This is where a cool dad clears a little space, stand up on the table and says:

"Hey Everybody, it's little Billy's birthday today!!!! He's 6 years old and we're all gonna sing him Happy Birthday together!!!!"

All while stomping a nice beat out on the table top.

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This is obviously the solution.

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Agreed and agreed again. Two excellent posts, right on the money.

It's unfair to expect others to fulfill your voluntary obligations to someone else for you. Especially in a business setting, not a personal one. Their life is not yours. And their business is not yours, either.

I wonder if the dad would have tried this in a restaurant he didn't think was downscale enough.

I still sympathize with the dad, but people have to realize the world is not all about their little precious dumplings. Most people don't give a sh*t and shouldn't feel pressured to. It's just not their "business."

I think I'd be much much MORE likely to go to a place where the owners or managers refused to knuckle under to guests and let them run the show for the benefit of their kids. There are tons of places that do that, and they're readily available. There's no reason to expect every place to do that.

What the dad should have done is not be so dopey as to let the kid pick the restaurant, if the singing was so important. That dad was pretty damn dumb. He's obviously in over his head, when it comes to picking restaurants and handling his kid. He is the guy who set his kid up for being bummed out, not the restaurant.