From WTAE in Pittsburgh:

In an email sent to loyal McDain's customers, owner Mike Vuick wrote, "Beginning July 16, 2011, McDain's Restaurant will no longer admit children under six years of age. We feel that McDain's is not a place for young children. Their volume can't be controlled and many, many times, they have disturbed other customers."

Vuick explained his reasoning to Team 4 on Friday, saying, "I think it's the height of being impolite and selfish, and therefore, I instituted a policy."

The owner said he won't make exceptions with the new rule.

"Nothing wrong with babies, but the fact is you can't control their volume," Vuick said. "There may be restaurants that prefer to cater to such things. Not here."

An official Slog poll last October determined that when your offspring is shattering everyone's eardrums in a restaurant, you are Slog-legally-bound to take the child outside upon the second instance of crazy-driving, not returning until all potential for crazy-driving has completely ceased.

We did not consider banning babies from restaurants...

...(though the poll option that parents should "Never have brought the child to the restaurant in the first place, unless it is Chuck E. Cheese or Vios" got a decent number of votes).

Another quote from Viuck:

"You know, their child—maybe as it should be—is the center of their universe. But they don't realize it's not the center of the universe."

WTAE in Pittsburgh also notes that "Restaurants cannot ban senior citizens, because they're in a protected class under the law, but there is no law that protects children from being denied service." But senior citizens don't scream as much, do they?

Eater.com points out that banning kids is not unprecedented.