Your son is 7 months and you make sure he has shoes, I sure hope they are flexible shoes, otherwise you are harming his little feet. My uncle was a podiatrist and was very adament that children do NOT wear hard sole shoes until they are developed otherwise those are the children you see in leg braces and the like because the dumba** parents decided to put crap on their undeveloped feet. And a rusty nail? You say you are a mother? What mother wished that on a child? I feel sorry for your children..

Tiana that is a terrible thing to say ..."I hope those kids that come barefooted gets a rusty nail in their foot." WOW what if that happened to your child? God forbid! Please think before you speak...there is life and death in the tongue!!!

That was the most idiotic thing to say, and you call yourself a parent. I wish no harm on anybody especially children. Unfortunetly we have poverty in this country, and some people can't afford shoes. To wish harm on children is just wrong and I feel sorry for your kids to have a disgusting person for a so called mother!

The reason for no shoes no service in a restaurant isnt because someones feet might be dirty. Your shoes are going to be a lot dirtier than your feet ever will. You wash your feet for goodness sakes. The shoe rule is for the safety of the customer. You dont know what someone could step on and in turn sue the restaurant because they cut their foot on something. If the manager at Burger King were concerned about the real reason for the rule he could have demanded that the child not stand on the floor. I think he might have been having a really bad day and took the rule too seriously and literally. Whats next? At what age does the rule apply? Are we going to demand a newborn wear shoes? I think if the baby is going to be walking around the restaurant they should be wearing shoes. Its that simple.

Simple. No one who is paid minimum wage is really paid to think. Rules are rules and these peons aren't allowed to apply common sense to rules. Sending away 20 customers as a result doesn't really fit into the equation of following the rules. BTW, I'd rather deal with the "dirt" from baby feet than the e-coli & other bacteria in the ice they put in your soft drinks. Did you know that a high school student somewhere did a project in a fast food restaurant that proved there was more bacteria in the self-service ice dispenser than there was in the toilet? NO ICE PLEASE -- I'LL TAKE THE BABY FEET!!

The baby was being held and then in a high chair. The baby was not on the ground or the counter. I was there with our church group. There was another toddler who was on the ground walking and those people went and got shoes. There was also a baby who was 4 weeks old in a blanket being held that the management commented on. The news cast did show bouncing but that was in their own home. That wasn't in the fast food place.

Inadequate Wife,

I too watched the video, you know what I saw... an infant in its home, not at BK. Besides, It is not a matter of dirt, because if it was, many if not most of the people entering any fast food place would be be required to wash their hands before they touched the counter. I'm not sure what they would do about those germ laden bills used to pay with. Irradiation?

DaMoKi

Because burger king just plainly sucks. Cold food, poor service, nasty counter personal, all around disgusting.

It's not because the baby posed a health hazard to others but like everything else these days it's about liability. The manager clearly was not able to articulate that so the manager should be fired or certainly retrained. The fact is that anyone walking around in bare feet could step on something on the floor and be injured. Being the litigious nation we are you know that someone would sue the restaurant even if they were the ones that broke a glass and cut their foot. It's all about liability...........

The baby was bouncing up and down on the carpet in her own home....BK is so stupid

Right---
And another thing to consider---at least in the area I live in----Burger King employess are not required to use barrier protection-----so they are making your sandwiches with their bare hands. Now how sanitary is that? I have personally seen an employess wipe his bare hands on his pants, then start making the next snadwich. And people are eating that sandwich. Now, how many people are licking the floor where the baby's feet touched?

This was just nonsense. At all BK's, McD's and other fast food establishments that have a indoor play area there are signs posted that children take off their shoes before playing on the equipment and they even have racks to hold the shoes for the kids. Sounds to me like maybe the manager may have recently been slammed by a audit or an inspection and was taking it out on the group that was there.

My big question is this how many of you are eating your food off any part of the floor let alone haveing it mad off the floor? Did any of you was your hands before entering the store? Be for you have even sat down you have touched nasty money of some kind your cup and at least the tray your food is comeing on. Now are you trying to tell me that your hands are any cleaner that a 6 month olds feet? Just think about it.

You are obviously as brain dead as the lunkheaded manager of that Burger King. Where does common sense come in to play?

That is so stupid! They think nothing about serving filthy people. I have been in places where the person in line was so nasty and smelly I could never eat near them. No shoes is for those babies who do not walk. When they are old enough to walk then they ought to wear shoes.

I agree with Inadequate Wife the woman was saying she is just a baby and doesn't even walk yet someone on the video was leading her as if she were walking in bare feet. I change my vote to yes she should have been kicked out. Although who's to say someone wearing shoes is any safer to have in your restaurant what if someone stepped in dog poo or something how is that any cleaner then a baby with no shoes? I think everyone should just sanitize themselves as soon as they walk in the door to a fast food restaurant or any where else they have food.

If they are that concerned about it then they should take out the play areas in those restaurants. Simply because the rule in the play area is that you MUST REMOVE your shoes before climbing on tghe play gym. I have a 1 yr old who is constantly taking her shoes off in all restaurants, not just burger king and I have never heard a complaint from anyone, diner or employee. But then I don't let my child run loose in places of business any how.

The no shirt/no shoe/ no service rules isn't about health, hygiene or liability. It's about keeping "dirty hippies" and indigents out of established by "respectable" clientele. If I was in that position, I would have stopped eating, found a complaint with the food, demanded a refund and gone for something to eat right next door, (but that's just me).

It is common for 6 month old babies to be toted around without socks or shoes, and unheard of that service be refused for such a reason.....therefore, BK and restaurants who would choose to enforce such a rule should POST it CLEARLY that babies (and at what age) are/aren't subject to the rule.

I personally think babies should be exempt to the rule, however I wouldn't be upset if BK (or other restaurants) should dedcide otherwise. But they need to MAKE and publicize a decision. SHAME on BK corporate for not making a comment or taking a stand for or against the issue. I find the fact that they've refused to comment OUTRAGEOUS and cowardly!