Love pugwash's post: groups of mums taking over a cafe, children running everywhere, screaming, people bringing their own packed lunches? Bit of an exaggeration from that ed cafe owner perhaps? Going back to the original post, the op wanted to have lunch with her friends. What the hell's the problem with that? They were using the cafe for what it's for. Is it acceptable for a cafe to say "no mums for lunch here"? How about if it said "no gays, we are Christians", "no black people, our customers are mostly white", "no smelly oldies"?