If Your Kids Make A Mess At A Restaurant Is It Your Responsibility To Clean It Up?
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Bert Show. |
| 0:02.4 | I have a feeling this is going to fire up some servers. |
| 0:05.2 | So if you are a server, if you are part of a wait staff at a restaurant, and you would like to weigh in, 1-855-5-Bert Show 8-5-2-37-47-46, we had a birth-show listener email us. |
| 0:19.3 | She wants us to settle a debate between her and her husband. |
| 0:22.3 | She's asking, |
| 0:23.2 | if your kid makes a mess at a restaurant, |
| 0:26.3 | is it your responsibility to clean up |
| 0:28.4 | or is that why you are tipping? |
| 0:30.9 | 1-855 birth show. |
| 0:33.0 | Here's the email and question. |
| 0:35.1 | I need an outside opinion on this |
| 0:36.7 | because my husband and I are totally divided. |
| 0:39.9 | Over the weekend, we went out to eat with friends and brought our one year old along. |
| 0:45.5 | Naturally, he dropped food on the floor. |
| 0:48.0 | Some bits of bread, a few pieces of pasta, some shredded cheese, nothing outrageous, |
| 0:52.3 | but yeah, it was noticeable. |
| 0:56.1 | We finished eating, paid the bill, |
| 1:00.8 | and we're about to leave when my husband stopped and asked, you're really not going to clean that up? |
| 1:09.3 | I told him, that's what the restaurant staff is for, but he said it felt wrong to just leave the mess like that. |
| 1:12.6 | I get that it wasn't a tiny spill, but it also wasn't like he threw an entire plate of food on the ground. Plus, we left a really good tip |
| 1:17.5 | to acknowledge the extra work. But my husband wasn't having it. Before I knew it, he was down on his |
| 1:23.9 | hands and knees, picking up food off the floor, like we owed the restaurant a deep |
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