“dine out tray” in use on wooden high chair

ABOUT ME

Hi! I’m Britta,

Thank you for popping in to learn more about dot!

Dining out with babies can be difficult. The struggle is real. Babies fuss and cry. Diapers are filled and blow outs happen. Conversations get interrupted and time is often spent on entertaining baby. My husband’s mom could turn a cloth napkin into multiple items for our babies to play with. I tried this with my own grandchildren but the best I could do was create a head scarf.

On a visit to Chicago we took our 2nd grandchild, Noah, and his Mom and Dad out to a charming neighborhood restaurant known for their brunch. The server led us to a table for four carrying with her one of the wooden high chairs that were stacked in the corner. We sat down. Well two of us sat, our son held the baby while our daughter in law rummaged through her diaper bag to find a wipe to clean off the high chair and table. Quickly we moved our menus, silverware, napkins, condiments and vase of flowers to the other half of the table that Noah couldn’t reach. Noah already had a very impressive wingspan for a one year old. The table got even more crowded when the drinks and food came. We continued to struggle with the space at the table or lack there of. Can you relate?

When we returned to their home, we all looked online to purchase a tray that could attach to that type of high chair. We searched the web sure that it existed…but it didn’t. We wanted one. We needed one. We couldn’t find one so we decided to create one! This began the journey to dot the original dine out tray.

We now have 9 grandchildren. Kersta, Noah, Theo and Elin grew out of high chairs while we were researching and developing. Axel, Hugo and Bjorn tested our multiple prototypes and Ava and Ike are using dot currently. If we are so blessed, our future grandchildren will as well.

So while we can’t stop your baby from fussing, crying, or blowing out, we can help you give your baby a clean eating surface and safer space while dining out. And by doing this our hope is that you enjoy dining out with dot as much as we do.

Cheers!

Britta Anderson