Shoeless Baby Kaylin.
By carpenter5
@carpenter5 (6782)
United States
August 6, 2009 10:32pm CST
Like most restaurants, Burger King in Sunset Hills, Missouri has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy. And baby do they enforce it!
Jennifer Frederick, her mother and her 6 month old daughter Kaylin, stopped at the Burger King in Sunset Hills on Sunday. The baby was shoeless.
Restaurant workers asked the family to leave because the baby was violating a health code! But in fact, shoelessness is not a health code violation In St. Louis county. The family quickly ate and left before they could be thrown out!
Did restaurant workers go to far?
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6 responses
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
7 Aug 09
That's what I thought! Do you have any idea how many time's I've taken my niece into a store or restaurant when she was a baby without shoes? More times than I can count on both hands and my feet! This was just the craziest thing I'd ever seen. I don't know what the employees' problem was.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Aug 09
I know when my husband was managing a burger king while he was in college, we never said anything if it was a baby or toddler that was being carried. Once they started walking, Mike would never make a big deal about it. He would just simply say. If he/she has shoes in the car, it would be better to have them on because these floors can get slick with spilled drinks and greasy food and I wouldn't want him/her to fall.
There is just no sense in forcing a parent to leave. That's just ridiculous in my opinion.
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@emilie2300 (1882)
• United States
8 Aug 09
That's not right. I can see if it was adult or a child that was able to walk.
But come on Kaylin is only 6 months old. I would of spoke to the manager or called the 1 800 number that usually is at the store that says how are we doing...
I make a complaint. Honestly I would of not even gave them my service they would of definitely lost a sale from me.
I would of went some where else. That was definitely not right at all.
Happy My lotting to you hope you have a good weekend..
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Evidently they hd already ordered their food and sat down. Put Kaylin in a high chair where she was happily kicking her unshoed feet and gumming a french fry. I guess perhaps that is what made her a "customer".
I agree that I would probably not ever walk into that burger king again.
@emilie2300 (1882)
• United States
26 Aug 09
Yeah that is just darn wrong and not right. I still can't get over that.
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@emilie2300 (1882)
• United States
6 Sep 09
You will not believe what I saw here in Pittsburgh.
I 5 year old got on a Public transportation bus with no problem and had no shoes or socks on. I thought of the Burger King issue and was like they yelled about that child and hear no problem get on the bus with no problem..
Thank you for the best response. Have a great Holiday Be safe..
Take care...
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
7 Aug 09
i definitely think that the restaurant went too far with this one. It's just a little tiny baby, and I'm sure she probably had socks on, or something. It's not like the baby was running around or anything, just a baby like any other baby. And where does one get shoes for a child that young?
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
7 Aug 09
I guess maybe if she had big feet you could. I think my girls were about that age when I began putting little tiny shoes on them to go to church. But most of their "shoes" at that time were socks made to look like shoes. A 6 month old can't walk so her feet weren't going to touch the ground. This was just crazy.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
8 Aug 09
I thought no shoes, no shirt, no service referred to people who can actually walk in, not to babes in arms. The restaurant workers were going way to far. I guess that means even infants being nurse are not allowed in Burger King either. I do hope that this mother and daughter went and complained. Or did that baby daughter walk in on her bare feet?
I think not.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
25 Aug 09
no, she couldn't walk. She was only 8 months old. i don't know any babies that are walking by then. I'm sure she could if you held her hands and helped her, but they weren't doing that, they were carrying her, then put her in a high chair to eat french fries. the news story I heard in the first place said that mom and grandmother "Hurried" to eat their food and get out before the manager on duty called the police.
@AmbiePam (120697)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Yes, they went too far! What, did they think the six month old baby was going to run around? That's pathetic. I would have been greatly upset if I were that family. And I hope the media attention this is getting will also get them an apology. And maybe a lifetime supply of Burger King gifts cards. Not that Burger King is all that grand. I only like their breakfast menu. 

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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Aug 09
There was actually an update on theis story today that they family had gotten a letter from the corporate headquarters and a phone call and personal apology from the franchise owner and the store manager!
I just can't believe that it got picked up on the national news wire. Can you imagine how that poor kid must feel now? I know...I'm always rooting for the underdog. What he did was wrong, but the media is just crucifying him, and my guess is that it was a teenager.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
25 Aug 09
But it was one little assistant manager or shift/crew leader or something that was leaning so hard on them to leave. The other employees said something to him about the baby not having shoes. I guess he was the enforcer on duty or something. I wish those places would pay well enough to get decent help. I think they would make more money that way, because they wouldn't lose customers.
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Aug 09
that definately sounds freaky
i think they really went to far. many babies go without shoes when its hot and they are not walking yet. not to mention that kids go barefoot a lot and if the baby cant walk whats their point? gggeeesh
i think they really went to far. many babies go without shoes when its hot and they are not walking yet. not to mention that kids go barefoot a lot and if the baby cant walk whats their point? gggeeesh
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
5 Sep 09
My kids rarely wore shoes when they were babies. Most of the time, even in the winter I would just put nice warm socks on them. They aren't walking, so what's the point in wasting time to put on a shoe that they are probably going to take off anyway!
I did try with my daughters to put shoes on them when they were going to church. Little patent leather shoes with frilly socks. Kristen, my middle child and oldest daughter, would always manage to get it off, many times in the car seat before we were even out of the driveay and by the time we'd get to church, the inside would be soggy from where she'd chewed on it!







