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Restaurant High Chairs Are Gross!
August 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM by Cafe Cynthia - Comments (9)
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Wiping down the booster seats and high chairs must not be a part of the staff training at any restaurant, because I've yet to find a seat that isn't completely gross. Italian restaurants are the worst -- all that butter and olive oil!
Members of the Stay At Home Moms group agree with me:
"Restaurant highchairs are disgusting and SO unclean. I always bring my daughter's highchair cover with us," says MommyKelley04.
Those covers and inserts are pretty handy. But they are still not problem-free. Consider this:
"You do need to wash them after every use or else you are just dragging around the germs that get on the bottom from place to place, in and out of your home," says itsnotaboutm765. "I don't like them for that reason. They only cover the germs, and any germs there are are going to cling to the bottom. They'll end up in your car at the very least."
It's one of those things ... no one had inserts or covers or even baby wipes when I was growing up, and I survived the grimy restaurant high chair. Do you make a big deal of it or not?
Poll
Question: What do you do about gross and greasy restaurant high chairs and boosters?
Total Votes: 21
FILED UNDER: eating out, family meals
Comments:
I wipe them down with my own antibacterial wipe first.
I have a cloth high chair/cart cover that I do wash constantly. It's cushy and comfortable, and in a shopping cart, even covers the handle so I'M not touching the cart. It rocks.
Wiping down/spraying high chairs is a bad idea. You're NOT getting them clean, and moisture actually will help the spread of bacteria more than if you didn't try to wipe it.
We got an even better alternative than high chair covers. We got an Eddie Bauer hook on highchair seat that folds up flat and hooks onto almost any table. We keep it in the trunk so that we don't have to use the restaurants' highchairs. Everyone always stops us to ask about it.
I ALWAYS use our over for high chairs and grocery carts. Afterwards I will spray it with Lysol (I keep it in my diaper bag) before it goes into the car or bag. I wash it once a week and let it air dry.
i've never eaten at a restaurant that kept their highchairs/booster seats filthy.
goldd_e_loxx, I've seen those. I just wouldn't trust a clamp on a random table but they look really neat.
I use the one I got at Wal-Mart & just remember to wash it. Now that I read the other reply, I am thinking of the fact that I am taking the germs & just putting them inside her diaper bag or my purse afterwards. I will be finding an alternative method.
I bring my own booster seat from Fisher Price. They are great!
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I use the ones from I think Target that you can just toss when you are done. Then you don't have to carry those gross germs with you but I also spray them down first. They are sick I think. Plus have you ever gone to a restaurant with a newborn in a carrier and they flip the high chair upside so you can set the the car seat carrier in that way? That grosses me out too. I would just sit my daughter on a chair next to me if they did not have the slings for the car seat.
Peajewel Aug. 17, 2009 at 1:02 PM