The establishment, located in Ribeauvillé, posted a poster for several days stating “No children. Thank you”, indicates “Le Parisien”.
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Uposter which did not fail to arouse the indignation of many inhabitants. As reported The Parisian, a Christmas market restaurant in the town of Ribeauvillé, in the Haut-Rhin, was noticed in a very pale way by local residents by putting up a poster prohibiting access to the establishment to children. “No children. Thanks. “, was there before it has since been removed.
The first to have castigated this clumsy initiative is a grandmother who was refused entry with her 4-year-old granddaughter. She explains what happened on Facebook. “While we had been waiting for half an hour, the waitress explained to us that she could not serve us because we were in the presence of a child. My granddaughter was in tears and the whole family in shock. We had not seen the famous sign on the storefront, ”she denounces on the social network.
His message was widely commented on and relayed on Facebook. “To deny children access to a restaurant is quite simply discriminatory and illegal. We must send this couple of owners to do an internship if they are not able to resist the pressure ”, notably argued Jean-Jacques Better, president of the Union of trades and industries in the Haut-Rhin.
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“I shouldn’t have put that note on the door”
Faced with the scale of the controversy, the manager of the restaurant, Bénédicte Langer, reacted on Facebook. “There were a lot of people this weekend at the Christmas market. We saturated and put this word, ”she explains, while specifying that the panel was taped to the front of the establishment on Sunday morning before being removed on Tuesday. “I shouldn’t have put that note on the door,” regrets the restaurateur.
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But Bénédicte Langer did not stop there and profusely criticized the presence of children in restaurants as a general rule. “90% of children are super badly behaved. They are child-kings. They touch everything, shout, run, damage our Christmas decorations, put their dirty shoes on the seats. When we make remarks to parents, they insult us, ”she continues on the social network. She also says she hopes very much for “a law that would prohibit children’s access to restaurants”. Before deleting his message in the face of the new horde of critics.