I have noticed something that I do blame on the restaurants. Usually, if there is a wait for a table to open up, my wife and I will ask it we can just sit at the bar and eat there. Space permitting, no wait, no problem.
Seems like a lot of young families have discovered this. We will be sitting there, eating our meal, drinking a cold beer, talking with the bartender, and enjoying ourselves. Then our little sanctuary will be broken by a family that sits their kids between them and us. They bang their sippy cups on the bar, talk loudly, and and are ignored by their parents that are in their