A Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A restaurant has banned customers within their dining room if they are under the age of 16 without an adult.
The management of the Montgomery County store shared to their Facebook page that they “contemplated long and hard before posting this, but decided it was time” to limit their in-store attendance to children who have an adult with them.
“Often on Saturdays and days when schools are off, we have school-age children visiting the restaurant without their parents,” read the post made to the Facebook page of the Chick-fil-A location at 70 Buckwalter Road in Royersford. “Usually, these children and teens are dropped off for several hours at a local bounce park and groups of them then walk over to our restaurant.”
The post continued, saying “while we love being a community restaurant and serving guests of all ages, some issues need to be addressed,” citing issues of overly loud child and teen customers using explicit language, food and trash being left or thrown around the dining room, tables and restrooms being vandalized, employees being harassed, and unsafe behavior in the parking lot and drive thru lanes.
“As you can imagine, this is not a pleasant experience,” the post read. “We want to provide a comfortable and safe environment for our guests and our staff, and also to protect our building. Therefore, we cannot allow this to continue.”
The ban on customers under 16 only applies to those eating inside the restaurant, the post said. Customers under that age can still buy their food and take it to go, but cannot remain in the dining room without an adult present.
The post also adds an apology for those teens who “visited us and acted appropriately” and are also affected by this new rule, as well as a clarification that they are not blaming parents or guardians.
“Children and teens are learning to navigate the world free from supervision and often push the boundaries,” the post read. “We simply can’t let them push those boundaries anymore at our restaurant. We encourage you to talk to your children and ask about behaviors they have seen and perhaps participated in.”
To read the full post, visit the Chick-fil-A location’s Facebook page.
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If the under-16 crowd there has caused problems, then perhaps they should.
70 Buckwalter Road, is in Royersford, Pennsylvania is a yankee Democrat ruled city.
Democrats do not teach their children, respect, manners or how to be polite.
Considering that in Democrat run cites you have children in adult bodies who think it is their job to raise a child instead of raising an adult, many who grow up thinking nothing of shooting their neighbor over a bag of French fries. Moving your business to a place where actual adults live and are in charge would be a more permanent solution. You can take the animals out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the animal, when single moms let their unsupervised kids run wild and run amok, where the gang group acceptance rules, where a former husband father now is missing, and the poor unsupervised or cared for kids have to substitute Chick-fil-a restaurants for what should be homemade daddy directed daycare, now turned by enabling Democrat run politicians into a life of “Who’s Your Daddy?” and “Where’s my daycare?” and Christian run restaurants have to accomplish now what Christian Churches are now Democrat ideologically forbidden to do, with their child abandoning woke Governments proving to be poor substitutes for actual live-in parents.
This is on the Parent(S) of these wayward louts…
And just think, we have some adults out there proposing that the voting age be lowered to 16? Perhaps they should read this story and rethink their position on that really bad idea.
ITS BECAUSE Of things like this, that the leftists WANT TO Lower the voting age… As louts like this, tend to Vote with their emotions, NOT THEIR MINDS.. Ergo are likely to be dems
I wonder what those kid’s parents think about this since it’s a white suburban community. That chic fil a, like all the rest is always extremely busy.