United States: A restaurant in College Park of Orlando neighborhood is making changes to its rules for customers after dealing with the problems from the students near Bishop Moore Catholic High School and their parents.
A restaurant in Orlando’s College Park neighborhood is making changes to its rules for customers after dealing with problems from students at nearby Bishop Moore Catholic High School and their parents.
Starting Tuesday, Tornatore’s Restaurant, 3818 Edgewater Drive, is banning anyone under the age of 18 from entering the restaurant without an adult.
Moreover, the owner of the restaurant, Denny Tornatore, stated, “Recently, we’ve had a group of children coming over from Bishop Moore that have been so disrespectful to my staff, and I won’t have that.”
The other issue, according to Tornatore, is that parents are accessing his business’ parking lot to pick up their children instead of waiting in the school’s pick-up line.
Parents waiting for their children have crowded away potential customers and clogged up neighborhood side streets, as per Tornatore, whose restaurant is in a commercial plaza with six other businesses.
Along with this, Tornatore highlighted, “Every year I go to complain to Bishop Moore, and they tell me the same thing — that anything that happens off their property, there’s nothing they can do. And I get that it’s not on their property. So it’s the parents that are the issue. And you can’t even get in here when they’re letting out of school.”
Tornatore said he has tried to talk related to the issue with the parents directly but claims he has only been met with “attitude and rudeness.”
Meanwhile, Tornatore emphasized, “We spent so much money and having off-duty police officers here, and we’re in a pandemic and food cost is higher than ever. I can’t afford to be paying cops to do Bishop Moore’s job.”
