Bizarre “Love you with your children and with each other are engaged, or please stay home or go elsewhere.” That is the new – and already controversial – motto of Attila Yilmaz, owner of the popular family restaurant Pazar Food Collective in Sydney. Yilmaz doesn’t allow the youngest customers in his pub, and even longer to use their electronic devices to play and bans also any other kindervertier at the table. That he reports today on Facebook. The responses are divided. “He understands clearly why we are in a restaurant”, says the opponents.
The Pazar Food Collective is a well-regarded Turkish-Mexican fusion restaurant, very popular with families, from the Australian Canterbury is a 20-minute drive from Sydney. Owner Attila Yilmaz does not want more that children are with their iPhone or iPad. That happens today more often and not only in Australia, but also coloring books, lego blocks and other toys prove to be a thorn in the eye for Yilmaz. He complains further about the tour and that customers all get up to, such as on a chair, to get the perfect photo of the food to take, what he considered a lack of respect for the other restaurantgangers.
a Few days ago, Yilmaz on Instagram angry about children who according to him had to misbehave in a restaurant. They were on napkins and the table drawn. He therefore took a drastic decision and shared it today on Facebook. He wants that parents are now at the table aware, deal with their offspring and with each other – “life is too short” – and that the family “focuses on the food and the experience”. He concludes firmly: “If you do not go to Pazar comes as a collective of food to enjoy and you with each other, keep busy, be involved, to converse, to laugh, to cry, to discuss and to experience, please go somewhere else or stay home”.
