Men can't discipline children, especially children who are not theirs, only women can do that. Men can't hit women and men can't hit children. It's considered wrong and abuse no matter how hard of soft it is or if they deserved it. They would go to jail. & No one should be hitting a child that's not theirs anyway. It's the parents responsibility to look after him and discipline him, and if the parents are not there, then it is the employee's job to do it. The employees should have handled it since the parents of the child did not. It is their establishment afterall, the employees are supposed to make sure that everything is ok and running smoothly. That's what they get paid to do.