Rant Pizza PLace in Langford

Supermaman · by **Supermaman** on Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:09 pm

I consider this restaurant a family restaurant...great kids menu , lots of kids each time we go there , excellent service ....

we go about twice a month...Tonight i was very desapointed. For Easter Snnday it was pretty busy and the server offered us a booth in the lounge , I said no as there was Ultimate fighting ( very bloody fighting I should add) so he found us a place in the restaurant but to my surprise 2 tvs were showing the Ultimate fighting ...really......???The server agree to change the channel but only close to our table???? Like my 5 yrs old won' t look around bat the other ones . Then my son wants a toy from the vending machine ...one machine is "Guns and grenades" really......????
Am I over sensitive here tonight :?:

CR&D'S Mum · by **CR&D'S Mum** on Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:22 pm

In my opinion you are not being sensitive. I made a complaint to Wal-Mart because of adds on the check out screens for a very violent movie and they said wow no one has ever complained before.

Sadly I think our society has become seriously desensitized to that kind of violence and does not realize the significant documentation on the effects it has on children and it saddens me. I don't want my kids exposed to it plain and simple and it should be my choice. That kind of stuff would be better off shown in a bar. I personally don't even get why they have tv's in restaurants. I get the sports bar thing but... aw well. Sorry that happened to you dinner out.

Sunnygirl · by **Sunnygirl** on Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:07 pm

I'd be highly annoyed. My pet peeve is the trailers shown at movies for PG etc movies when you're there to see a general movie.

NLMD · by **NLMD** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:53 am

I have had the EXACT same thing happen at the one by uptown. My 3 year old DS was glued to it so we asked for our bill and left. The response we go was "well we have a poster by the door saying it would be on". I was very annoyed.

Samandemma · by **Samandemma** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:28 am

We had a group of families who were planning to go to this chain restaurant and when we discovered that they going to be showing the extreme fighting etc. we cancelled the reservation and went elsewhere.
If the restaurants want to be offering family-friendly service then they need to modify their protocols. Otherwise, they will be losing the business of families.
If we provide them with this feedback they may consider modifying things to accomodate families.

Benjorsam · by **Benjorsam** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:42 am

Devil's advocate here, but these places are also considered sports bars and much of their memorabilia is centred around sports. While its not something you want your child to see (nor would I for that matter) it is a place that adults go with their friends to watch stuff like this. I don't believe that one family should be able to come in and try to make the entire restaurant shut off this show because you don't like it. It would have been easier for you guys to just leave than to expect the restaurant to shut off something that obviously everybody else was enjoying. And had that been me (not that I watch or enjoy those kinds of shows so its irrelevant) but I'd be really pissed if I was there with my friends to enjoy this fight and was told it had to be shut off because ONE family was offended by it.

Colesmum · by **Colesmum** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:36 pm

Benjorsam wrote:Devil's advocate here, but these places are also considered sports bars and much of their memorabilia is centred around sports. While its not something you want your child to see (nor would I for that matter) it is a place that adults go with their friends to watch stuff like this. I don't believe that one family should be able to come in and try to make the entire restaurant shut off this show because you don't like it. It would have been easier for you guys to just leave than to expect the restaurant to shut off something that obviously everybody else was enjoying. And had that been me (not that I watch or enjoy those kinds of shows so its irrelevant) but I'd be really pissed if I was there with my friends to enjoy this fight and was told it had to be shut off because ONE family was offended by it.

Okay....but in the family side of the restaurant? At dinner hour?? Personally I would find it safe to assume, on a Sunday, at dinner hour, I would be safe to take my kiddoes to a restaurant like this and not have to experience MMA on the TV screens. Lounge, sure, we all know thats usually the "grownup" side of things, but the restaurant? At a place with kids menus, etc? Personally this little tidbit is enough to make me not want to run the risk of taking my kids in there for our meal, there's way more places to choose from.

Benjorsam · by **Benjorsam** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:49 pm

Colesmum wrote:
Benjorsam wrote:Devil's advocate here, but these places are also considered sports bars and much of their memorabilia is centred around sports. While its not something you want your child to see (nor would I for that matter) it is a place that adults go with their friends to watch stuff like this. I don't believe that one family should be able to come in and try to make the entire restaurant shut off this show because you don't like it. It would have been easier for you guys to just leave than to expect the restaurant to shut off something that obviously everybody else was enjoying. And had that been me (not that I watch or enjoy those kinds of shows so its irrelevant) but I'd be really pissed if I was there with my friends to enjoy this fight and was told it had to be shut off because ONE family was offended by it.

Okay....but in the family side of the restaurant? At dinner hour?? Personally I would find it safe to assume, on a Sunday, at dinner hour, I would be safe to take my kiddoes to a restaurant like this and not have to experience MMA on the TV screens. Lounge, sure, we all know thats usually the "grownup" side of things, but the restaurant? At a place with kids menus, etc? Personally this little tidbit is enough to make me not want to run the risk of taking my kids in there for our meal, there's way more places to choose from.

That's a good point. I wouldn't be really happy about it either and as I said, I was playing devil's advocate. However I probably would have just left and gone somewhere else if I was that bothered by it. I don't think my kid's would have even noticed it. I took my 10 y/o there for lunch today and he didn't even glance at the tv once.

Myshkin · by **Myshkin** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:50 pm

Sunnygirl wrote:I'd be highly annoyed. My pet peeve is the trailers shown at movies for PG etc movies when you're there to see a general movie.

I was really struck by this tonight when I was a The Hunger Games. It's a PG movie that I know a lot of 10 and 11 year olds will be watching and yet there was this hideous horror movie trailer at the beginning. I didn't particulary want creepy horror pictures in my head and it seems pretty irresponsible to put an "R" (14A?) trailer on before what is effectively a kids movie.

It seems like the standards of what is acceptable for a "general" audience have really shifted. I think it makes total sense to expect to have an Ultimate fighting free dinner at the local pizza place, OP. I bet it's alienated more customers that just your family.

Benjorsam · by **Benjorsam** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:42 am

Myshkin wrote:
Sunnygirl wrote:I'd be highly annoyed. My pet peeve is the trailers shown at movies for PG etc movies when you're there to see a general movie.

I was really struck by this tonight when I was a The Hunger Games. It's a PG movie that I know a lot of 10 and 11 year olds will be watching and yet there was this hideous horror movie trailer at the beginning. I didn't particulary want creepy horror pictures in my head and it seems pretty irresponsible to put an "R" (14A?) trailer on before what is effectively a kids movie.

It seems like the standards of what is acceptable for a "general" audience have really shifted. I think it makes total sense to expect to have an Ultimate fighting free dinner at the local pizza place, OP. I bet it's alienated more customers that just your family.

The Hunger Games is actually PG13 so while I know kids under that age will be viewing it, you can't really blame them for showing more mature content in their previews. I'm not sure which movie was being previewed but its not very common for a movie nowadays to get an R or 14A rating (which are two different ratings btw). Are you sure that was the rating for the movie?

quackers · by **quackers** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:56 am

The trailer I believe is for CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is rated R. Hubby took our 10 and 13 yr old to see hunger games, thankfully our 10 yr old was in the restroom at the time.. Our older child buried her face in her dads arm. Ya hubby was pissed off at that trailer being shown.
It's being shown all over the tv's in the Langford Walmart too, near the tills.

Myshkin · by **Myshkin** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:58 am

Benjorsam-I couldn't find the Canadian rating for the horror movie. In the states it was R so probably 14A in Canada (I don't think we use R anymore). Similarly Hunger Games is PG 13 in the U.S. but simply rated PG in Canada. They are "neighbouring" ratings I guess, but the jump from PG to 14A is pretty huge imo. I'll show PG movies in class occasionally (middle school and wouldn't show hunger games fwiw) but in Canada 14A seems to have replaced the "R" rating and definately denotes an "adult" movie.

I wasn't particularly suprised they showed the trailer, but annoyed as it was pretty graphic and I really dislike horror movies. I didn't feel like that was what I was there to see.

(I just wanted modest hunger games violence , not gory zombie murders, is that so much to ask? ;-)

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quackers · by **quackers** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:02 am

RatedR in the USA... And in BC rated 18a.

http://parentpreviews.com/movie-reviews ... ds#primary

Benjorsam · by **Benjorsam** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:55 am

quackers wrote:The trailer I believe is for CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is rated R. Hubby took our 10 and 13 yr old to see hunger games, thankfully our 10 yr old was in the restroom at the time.. Our older child buried her face in her dads arm. Ya hubby was pissed off at that trailer being shown.
It's being shown all over the tv's in the Langford Walmart too, near the tills.

OK, I just looked up that movie and I agree, totally inappropriate for that age group. Its rated 18A here in BC so they shouldn't be showing previews of that movie to kids under that age. My kids would be totally freaked out by that. Its funny how a movie like Bully originally had an R rating simply because of the swearing in it, which I'd say all middle schoolers hear on a regular basis, and yet a movie like Hunger Games which is very violent, only gets a PG13 rating.

However...that looks like a really scary movie. I'm a sucker for horror flicks and I'd totally go see that.

Benjorsam · by **Benjorsam** on Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:02 am

Myshkin wrote:Similarly Hunger Games is PG 13 in the U.S. but simply rated PG in Canada. They are "neighbouring" ratings I guess, but the jump from PG to 14A is pretty huge imo. I'll show PG movies in class occasionally (middle school and wouldn't show hunger games fwiw) but in Canada 14A seems to have replaced the "R" rating and definately denotes an "adult" movie.

I wasn't particularly suprised they showed the trailer, but annoyed as it was pretty graphic and I really dislike horror movies. I didn't feel like that was what I was there to see. (I just wanted modest hunger games violence , not gory zombie murders, is that so much to ask? )

I keep looking up The Hunger Games and its being shown as having both a PG and PG-13 rating here in Canada. Considering a movie like Shrek is rated PG, there is no way that the Hunger Games should have anything less than a PG13 rating here.