At Four Friends Kitchen in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, kids get to try out an Etch A Sketch. (Photo by William Porter)
Whether you’re a parent or just someone at a nearby table, restaurant-going adults know that kids can get fidgety while waiting for breakfast.
But the folks who run , a breakfast-lunch spot in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, have a solution to the problem that will also bring a smile to the face of anyone who came of age in the ’60s and ’70s: The restaurant has a wall of about two dozen toys it hands out to small-fry upon request. Idle hands and all that.
“It’s fun to watch the kids use them,” says co-owner Genefer Thornton. “A lot of them have never seen one, and they treat it like a video game or a smart phone. They’re running their hand across the screen trying to get it to move, or they look for buttons along the edge of it to try to activate the screen.”
Finally, the return of a toy where the parent gets to explain how it works to the child, rather than vice-versa.
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