I understand nice restaurants, but it's a pizza place... We specifically take Eve to local family pizza places when we want to be a little less concerned with making noise, or her acting like a 2 year old. Target market.
As for controlling your kid, sometimes they're going to act like a kid, regardless. Hence, why a pizza place is a perfect place to chance it, not a steakhouse. There's a fine line between tightening the leash too much, or too little.
If anyone is caught in the crosshairs of Roma's pizza at 5pm on a Friday night, and Eve wants to get reasonably noisy after her 'also' long week of daycare, sucks for them. It's even more of a gamble if our niece comes. Hamburger joints, pizza places, and a lot of chain sit-downs are training grounds. Trial and error is how they learn to behave, but I'm not putting her in chains when she drops a fork, spills a glass, or gets a little louder than library hour. She gets better every time we go out, and it was through practice.
My personal rant: My hernia sucks today from hockey last night. I'm waiting it out as long as possible until I have to get it looked at.