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Topics: Australia, Facebook, Food and Drink, Social Media, Parenting
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Australia, Facebook, Food and Drink, Social Media, Parenting
A mom has spoken out after seeing a family kicked out of a café because the children were 'crying'.
It would appear that the heated debate about children being too loud or in your face, which often focuses on their behaviour on a flight, has now moved on to the location of cafés.
And one café owner was having none of it when a family with 'crying children' came in.
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A set of parents and their two children - aged around two and three - visited Adele's Café on Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island in West Point, Australia.
However, their trip to get an ice cream turned sour when owner of the store Adrian Dall'oste asked them to leave.
The owner told FEMAIL the two children started having tantrums and the eldest child 'showed his unhappiness by clearing [the] shelf off with all [their] shells and items on the counter'.
He claims: "Then he picked up one of the metal flasks and threw it on the tiles - I was surprised it didn't smash the tiles.
"My staff member looked at me like 'what should we do' and I waved my hands like it will be over a minute - but they didn't leave, they sat at a table outside."
So, the owner decided to take action.
After 15 minutes of watching the kids continue screaming and acting up, Dall'oste had enough.
The store owner went outside and asked the family to leave his café, noting the mom 'appeared shocked' and dad told him it was 'bad business'.
"I told him, 'No, it is bad parenting,'" he responded.
However, his decision to ask the family to leave didn't go down well with Laura Edwards - another customer and fellow mom also in the café that day.
Edwards stormed up to the owner and told him and his staff they 'were disgusting,' Dall'oste says.
Edwards later took to social media too, to 'post a video telling people not to come' to the café.
However, people didn't respond to Edwards' post, condemning her for trying to put people off going to the cafe.
One user wrote: "Good on the business owner, I would of done the exact same thing. He has a duty to make sure everyone has an enjoyable experience. I have kids and when they were little, if they carried on like little brats I would of packed up and left out of the respect for others."
The mom also told FEMAIL: "I was sitting outside at the time of the tantrum and didn't hear them. The doors are open the whole time - and I would have thought I would hear screaming and children throwing things. The only thing I could hear was the owner kicking them out."
However, Dall'oste says she 'hadn't witnessed' the whole incident.
Edwards stands by her encouragement of people to boycott the café.
She told FEMAIL: "I think sometimes you do get looked down upon when having kids, especially if they're having tantrums and stuff, but their brains aren't fully developed at that age, and they need help to process those emotions."
Despite her bad review on social media of the cafe - which worried Dall'oste and his wife their business may suffer as a result - the cafe owner says the next day after the incident they had 'double sales'.