For this month’s Seattle Met I wrote a story about Dale Levitski, chef at Chicago restaurant Sprout, and his policy of banning any child under 12 during weekend brunch (check out the article’s comments for a lively debate on the matter).

Here are two things that I couldn’t squeeze into the article but that I thought might interest you.

First, I asked Levitski what he would say to a Seattle chef who wanted to implement an adults-only brunch but was nervous about backlash. Here was his advice: “Be confident! The customer is not always right. This is your restaurant. You’ll take some bumps and bruises put people will come around.”

Secondly, I wasn’t able to include the conversation I had with Carrie Van Dyck. She owns fine-dining standard barer the Herbfarm with her husband Ron Zimmerman, and had some interesting insights to share.

“Depends on the kid,” was Van Dyck’s main message. Given the multi-hour meals at the restaurant, Van Dyck says that some children just can’t handle it. But, she says, she’s known (lucky) kids who have grown up eating at the Herbfarm and now bring their own families there. That said, Van Dyck admitted that kids between age 1 and 6 are always “questionable.” After age 6, “it depends on how they are raised.”

She wouldn’t tell me any dishy stories about young kids who tore up the Herbfarm while the parents sat idle, but Van Dyck did recall a time when a family brought a one-year-old baby who kept crying the whole evening. The Parents “had to keep getting up,” to sooth the baby, which distracted them from enjoying the meal.

And that, says Van Dyck, is the biggest problem that restaurateurs have with kids acting out of turn: it’s not the crying or the annoying other customers, it’s the fact that the behavior prevents their parents from enjoying the experience.

Oh and interesting factoid about the Herbfarm: the restaurant will actually make kid-friendly food—hamburgers, etc—upon request. Who knew?