COME ON!! This has happened many times in the last few years. Get your crap together crappy chain restaurant!

This should make nap time a lot easier.

I've let my preschool-aged children have a sip of my beer in restaurants (though never Crapplebee's, because I refuse to go back because their "food" is so awful), and no one said "boo." It's a non-issue. Why did you even post this?

ACTUALLY.....

....parents can give their children alcohol anywhere, including in public.  If you sit down with your kid in a restaurant and order a beer, you're welcome to let the kid have some.  You can't get your kid drunk (that would be child endangerment), but other than that, you're the parent.

....what's forbidden is for a restaurant to SERVE the kid alcohol.  Obviously, this happens all the time, too, but that's another issue.  If the restaurant serves the parent and the parent chooses to give the kid some/most/all of the alcohol, that's the parent's lookout.

....there are separate laws that forbid minors from entering bars, but Crapplebee's isn't a bar (it's not much of a restaurant either).

There is legal precedent on all of this.  And now you know.  And knowing......is half the battle!

Thanks, Ben!

A toddler was accidentally served alcohol at a Detroit Applebees. His Mom knew something was off when he was suddenly more fun to be around.

This is the reason I should have gone into personal injury law. Nice juicy settlement just waiting for an attorney to snap up!

Post a link...

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Well, hell. If they are gonna let preschoolers drink, I shoulda just let me 10 yo have a jello shot or two at the Yelp softball game. She'd have passed out in the car on the way home and wouldn't have asked to hear... sigh, Taylor Swift on the iPod.

I'm thinking there should be a link included somewhere around here.

Scotty is asleep at the switch.

The most recent:
consumerist.com/2011/04/…

2007 incident (Bay Area)
consumerist.com/2007/06/…

OK, after reading that, I would be pissed and there would be a lawsuit in the works.

"He laid his head on the table", what a lightweight.