Count your children as people when making reservations!
It is unbelievable how often people make reservations for, say, 4 people and make a note saying 4 adults plus one highchair or something.
You need a table of 5 people. Reataurants tend to not have many of those. Your child is a person that needs a seat. If you make a reservation for 2 people, are you sure there will be space to put a highchair and a stroller on top of that?
I know it must be hard being a parent of a young child. But it is really insane how few people realize this. I'm looking at three reservations tomorrow that have notes about bringing an extra baby/toddler/child and none of them made the right reservation size.
And I actually need to consider myself lucky because they were at least thoughtful enough to put it in the reservation notes as opposed to not saying anything until they show up and asking where they can store their zamboni of a stroller like we've got some zamboni stroller valet parking. Good grief.