Originally Posted by
aviators99
Ate at D&B for lunch in Milpitas yesterday, and went to leave to make an appointment, and there were employees stationed at the door who wouldn't let anyone leave. "We're sorry, we are not letting anyone leave because we have a missing child."
I have my own kids, so I could relate, so I hung around for a bit. After 20 minutes (other people had been waiting an additional 10 minutes), we were all itching to get out of there. After all, how could keeping people from leaving help locate the child? Also, it had been 1/2 hour and they had not called the police. I suggested to the employee that they call the police, as D&B could not keep the crowd from leaving, but perhaps the police could.
The employee insisted that he could keep us there himself. I let him know about "false imprisonment" and other potential issues, and he called the GM. The GM tried to tell us all we couldn't leave, and someone else mentioned false imprisonment and he eventually let us leave.
In a true case of a missing or abducted child, minutes count and it is not time for amateur detective hour. I would have called the police myself to notify them of an
alleged missing child and that the Dave And Busters staff were wasting time and resources detaining people who were clearly not in possession of the child. Let trained professionals deal with the situation, not a restaurant GM.