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| - Loved the meal, hated the atmosphere. I've been to Z'Tejas before and while I miss the Voodoo tuna terribly, I had my go-to alternate choice - the ruby trout salad. That was after the scrumptious shrimp tostada bites (grilled shrimp on top of avocado on top of a tostada) and a decent, though not extraordinary tortilla soup. I particularly liked the fact that Z'Tejas doesn't scrimp on the trout.
What really made the meal challenging, though, were the screaming kids. Not just one or two, but wherever you looked in the restaurant. True, we ate around 6:30pm on a Saturday, and that was well before the wee ones' bedtimes, but still.... Perhaps the hostess interspersed those with young kids among the quieter diners to balance out the noise level to an even roar throughout the restaurant, but to those who just wanted to have a nice meal and talk, it was more than a bit distracting, annoying, and uncomfortable. Look, I get the fact that Z'Tejas wants to be family friendly, but not everyone thinks a person's kid exercising his developing lungs is special - at least not in a good way.
Here's a radical suggestion. No, I'm not going to suggest barring kids from the restaurant. That would be wrong for the type of restaurant and would subject Z'Tejas to social media flaming. Rather, might I propose that people with kids under 12 be escorted to a section of the restaurant with other kids under 12, preferably where the noise level will be tolerable elsewhere in the establishment? For parents who object, feeling that they ought to be able to be around people who are quieter than they are, so as not to encourage their kids to scream any louder, that's just rude. You made your McDonald's Playland, now lie in it. We are not your siblings, parents, or grandparents. We do not necessarily think all of your kids' antics are adorable, nor do we feel we owe you some special consideration because you chose to have kids with you. We just want to have a nice meal with a reasonable noise level.
Okay, go ahead. Tell me why it is sooooo horrible for me to buy a meal without sustaining hearing loss or why I should think it precious that when you leave your table, it takes a crime scene cleanup crew to pull food, drink, crayons, and other debris off of tables, chairs and carpet (and we can't avoid seeing the disgusting mess or being jostled by the clean team).
Look. You're proud of your kids and/or you want to socialize them. Understood. But can't the restaurant serve one demographic without destroying another's evening?
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