McDonald's in Virginia bans children from its dining room...and some parents are outraged

A McDonald's successful Virginia has banned children from eating astatine the location, and the shocking determination has near immoderate parents outraged. 

The accelerated nutrient restaurant successful Fairfax County implemented the caller regularisation past Monday aft absorption posted a information announcement motion connected the beforehand doorway stating that the 'location is temporarily closed for dine-in work to anyone nether 21 years of age.' 

The caller policy, which was enactment successful place 'due to repeated incidents of pupil violence,' is successful effect Monday done Friday. All customers, including adults, person to ringing a doorbell to enter the establishment and mightiness beryllium asked to amusement their ID to staff. 

Children are lone allowed wrong if they are accompanied by a genitor and big chaperones tin bring successful up to 4 children with them. 

People of each ages tin usage the drive-thru and mobile app to get their Happy Meals and Big Macs, the franchise said. 

While it remains unclear conscionable however agelong the caller argumentation volition stay successful effect, section parents person voiced their choler implicit it. 

'So due to the fact that immoderate of y’all can’t power your children, excavation person to suffer? I person a 3 twelvemonth aged and an 18 twelvemonth aged and I guarantee you, neither has caused immoderate benignant of country successful public,' 1 wrote connected Facebook. 

'I don’t blasted radical for wanting to devour without this bs, but immoderate of america really parent. The ones that take to beryllium “friends” with their kids and fto them tally chaotic should beryllium charged with everything these kids bash close alongside the kids,' they continued.  

Another idiosyncratic said: 'Too atrocious the good behaved kids person to beryllium inconvenienced by these rules.' 

'Does the constabulary not beryllium implicit here,' a idiosyncratic wrote. 

Dia Jackson suggested the concern instrumentality different way to code the issue. 

'I don't hold with it I mean kids get wealth and privation to devour truthful I mean possibly you request a information guard,' Jackson told DC News Now.  

While immoderate person been near outraged by the caller policy, others are blessed with it and afloat enactment the company's decision. 

'I similar their policy. I would not hesitate to devour there. Without this policy, I would person gone elsewhere,' 1 said.

'These young men and women person made it hard for businesses to run safely.' 

Another commented: 'Good. These ignorant kids volition ruin it for everyone else. They request to larn that actions person consequences. Nice job, parents.'

A lawsuit who frequented the determination successful the past told NBC Washington she besides agrees with it. 

'Like we're sitting down eating, y'all smoking, y'all drinking, y'all cussing. Like, travel on, y'all,' a section named Stacey said. 

'I recognize wherever they coming from, due to the fact that that's turning customers away,' she added. 'If you're here, you're acting up, they losing they business.' 

Another lawsuit named Bridget told the outlet that she hopes children larn from their actions. 

'It's a company. It should beryllium a harmless constitution for families to bask their food. Young people, we can't conscionable ... We privation to instrumentality that vigor and redirect it,' she said. 

Meanwhile, Tim Perkins has already started enjoying the caller policy. 

'It's a large thing. This is astir apt the archetypal clip successful 5 years that I’ve sat down for 15 minutes successful this McDonald's and enjoyed a hamburger,' helium told 7News. 

According to Perkins, a fig of 'brazen' fights person breached retired successful caller years, making it hard to beryllium down, unbend and bask a meal. 

'The warring is simply a occupation and they’re beauteous brazen. The absorption tries to measurement successful and these kids are beauteous violent. And let’s beryllium honest, they’re young adults..,' helium explained. 

'They’re conscionable trying to halt the unit due to the fact that it’s not just to immoderate different lawsuit who comes successful for the sandwich, a hard-working person, they got to enactment up with a clump of idiots.' 

In a statement, McDonald's said it loves being a portion of the community, but they decided to heighten information measures astatine that circumstantial determination due to the fact that the institution wants 'to beforehand a harmless situation for our customers and staff.' 

'This argumentation was developed successful concern with section schoolhouse officials with oversight from section instrumentality enforcement. This serves arsenic a impermanent hole arsenic we enactment towards a semipermanent solution for all,' the institution added. 

The McDonald's is located down the thoroughfare from Thomas Edison High School. A batch of students travel to the edifice for luncheon oregon aft school.

A spokesperson with Fairfax County Public Schools told DailyMail.com a caller newsletter mentioned the restaurant's caller policy. 

'In a caller schoolhouse assemblage newsletter, Edison High School shared a connection from the proprietor of the McDonald’s connected Franconia Road detailing the restaurant’s caller information policy. FCPS encourages families to speech to their students astir due conduct, including successful the community,' they said. 

'Edison High School’s attendance argumentation makes it wide that students who permission field during the schoolhouse time without a genitor check-out volition person an unexcused absence.' 

DailyMail.com contacted McDonald's and the Fairfax Police Department for comment.