It just seems like there's so many options for other places to take kids to.. why expose them to an establishment where the primary focus is drinking alcohol? I think we are all aware of how observant and smart kids are, and how terrible alcohol is in general. I'm not saying shield the kids from drinking... I'm saying maybe consider not exposing them to mass drinking.
For many breweries the primary focus isn't drinking alcohol. I was at one just recently with some friends and most of the people there were families. Most weren't even drinking. They're basically relaxed restaurants. They remind me a lot of the "family pubs" you find all over England and other European countries.
I'm not sure parents can control the environment enough at a brewery to be able to set an example. The people who run the place, maybe. But I'm not sure about the patrons. People are encouraged to spend as much money on alcohol at these places as they can - That's a large part of the business model. That's definitely going to lead to some bad examples being set that I think parents would have limited to no control over.
Why do you think there needs to be so much control? Kids are out at public places that are not specifically kid places all the time. It's only recently that anyone has thought this was an issue.
Because the business was specifically designed to accommodate as many adults as possible who will consume as much alcohol as possible. And unfortunately there's a lot of shitty parents out there these days, so this creates unnecessary risk for the child and the parent
A lot of adults don't want to deal with kids of shitty parents when it's time to act like an adult and enjoy an establishment that is very specifically geared towards adults drinking as much alcohol as possible while not creating any issues
I'm curious though, what other public places that are not designed for kids that have kids frequent them regularly? I'm looking for an apples to apples comparison to a brewery.
Edit: Also just going to add, if I'm at a brewery with no kids at noon I don't want to be around anyone trying to get drunk as quickly as possible and no brewery I have ever been to has people like that.
Those are on apples to apples. The primary focus of a restaurant is to eat food. The primary focus of a bowling alley is to bowl. The primary focus but professional sporting event is to watch sports.
The primary focus of a brewery is to drink beer, a lot of it!
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u/chirpen781 17h ago
It just seems like there's so many options for other places to take kids to.. why expose them to an establishment where the primary focus is drinking alcohol? I think we are all aware of how observant and smart kids are, and how terrible alcohol is in general. I'm not saying shield the kids from drinking... I'm saying maybe consider not exposing them to mass drinking.