It’s a mid-morning rush at Apple Ridge Cafe in Wheat Ridge. There’s families and people of all ages grabbing a quick bite or enjoying a big breakfast. But, conspicuously, there aren’t any area middle and high school-aged children.
“We were thinking, we gotta set some boundaries here,” co-owner Scotty Jones explained to CBS Colorado. “We’ve had an increase of theft, disruptive behavior, disrespectful behavior [from teenage students].”
The restaurant, up on the north end of Kipling Ave near Wheat Ridge High School, typically serves local students that can walk there. But, after one too many bad incidents, Jones and his co-owners decided they needed to make a statement. A new policy was put into place at Apple Ridge: No middle or high school-aged student is allowed to dine at the restaurant without adult supervision.
“We’ve had dash and dines,” Jones said. “We’ve had decorations in the restaurant stolen, little things like that, talking to the waitresses, cussing at them.”…