Restaurant refuses to sing happy bday to 6 yr old

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People accusing the kid of being spoiled, how is this possible without knowing him?

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It's really not about the kid. It almost never is. As usual it's the parents.

Quick related story:

In college I worked in a privately owned bookstore that had a "no food or drink in store" policy. One day a girl comes in with an ice cream cone and I tell the girl's father that she has to finish the ice cream outside as per the owner's policy. The father says, "Come on, she's enjoying her ice cream cone", and continues browsing the store and ignoring my request. So I tell him again about the policy and he starts screaming at me saying, "Look, now you're making my daughter cry, you a**hole." Funny thing is, the girl only started getting upset when her dad started yelling. Had he just taken her outside the girl would have been perfectly happy to finish her ice cream and come into the bookstore afterwards.

So my point is that the parents getting all agitated over the Happy Birthday Incident probably upset the kid far more than not having some random waiters sing to him.

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If the hostess simply said "sorry, we can't do that" we would have piled back into the car, end of story.

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Not buying this AT ALL. You'd really keep driving around looking for a Happy Birthday Restaurant rather than just eat there and sing to the kid yourselves? Come on now. This is the type of thing people say after the fact, to rationalize why they are pissed over something so trivial. "We'd have gone to another restaurant had we known!" Yeah right.