There was a (perhaps deliberately) contentious article in The Guardian recently about whether pubs and restaurants should be ‘kid-free zones’. It received over 600 comments, showing it hit a nerve.
It’s quite a recent debate. In my time, children simply didn’t go into pubs – like bookmakers, they represented the murky, dark reaches of the adult world that children had little inclination to be a part of, although this was the 1970s, so children occupied a very different place in society. With the rise of the gastropub and the opportunities that families present to a struggling hospitality sector, there has been a change, moving through the Wacky Warehouse, beer garden and ‘Kids Menu’ model into children becoming part of the business plan.
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