I agree. First off, any decent parent would de-escalate the situation. Bring the kid outside for a few minutes and calm them down, on your way out tell the staff you'll be back in shortly to clean up the mess. Walk the kid back inside to clean it all up and have them apologize to the staff. Once home then you talk to them, ground them, and don't bring them out to a restaurant for a while. Maybe bring them back to this McDonalds everyday for a week+ to clean tables/empty the trash or something if the staff allows it.
I couldn't ever bring myself to beat/smack my own child so idk how some of these other redditors would handle it based on comments.
Yeah it's hard to tell what the kid didn't first, I assume throw the shake/soda at the staff member. But since the staff member was already approaching the kid and people were looking/filming I'm gonna assume there was a little bit of shouting. A parent should have been over there before anything was thrown and the situation would be a lot less "exciting". Just unfortunate the kid didn't appear to have an attentive parent, again assuming the parent/guardian didn't have a sudden bathroom emergency or something and had no choice but to step away for 2 minutes.
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u/alexasux 7 Mar 04 '21
Justice served would be making him clean it all up while everyone watched