Are there any out there? OR are there any other MSs besides fast food that allow you to bring children?

I'm really looking to get my foot in the door for hotel shops, so that eventually I'll be eligible for higher end ones, or just locations that I might like to travel. But the lower end hotel shops I see now are only reimbursement only, and allow only 1 guest (they say "preferably an adult" but don't outright exclude a child). I'm ok with reimbursement only if it opens me up to other future possibilities later, but if I'm going to travel at all for it, I'd like to add other shops to the route to cover my milage at least. Thing is, I don't want to leave my 2 year old just to do a shop to enhance my resume, if that makes sense at all... I've never been away from him over night. So I would need someone else to be able to watch him while I do other shops on the route... But if the hotel shop only allows 1 guest, then I don't know how to make that work.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Or is it really just not a possibility?

Hmmm...the ones I do where they want 2 people total also involve the bar visit...how's that going to work? Also, don't you think a 2 year old would be very distracting?

Buckalew allows children on some of their hotel shops. I have also done a few hotel shops that specifically required a child or children so as to test out the kid's club. But in those cases, one had to have a child that was, at a minimum, old enough for the kid's club. As pointed out, many hotel shops require a bar visit, so you would have to obviously have another adult as well as your two year old - and that adult would have to be capable of watching the two year old while you did the bar/lounge visits alone. If I were you, I would wait until you are at the stage when you leave your child overnight without you. While you could in theory make it work with a few hotel shops - I would imagine you (and possibly your child) would be so stressed out with trying to manage his/her needs and the needs of the shop - it doesn't seem worth it to me. The very first shop I brought my child on, he was 4 and it was specifically a luxury brand that wanted a child to test out the kid's club. He barely qualified for the kid's club (though he LOVED it), but the worst was having to take him to a fine dining restaurant (this was part of the specifications for the shop) to see how the staff would do at handling a young child. It was awful... 4 year olds (newly turned 4 btw) do not want to sit through a 2.5 hour long fine dining experience and guests around me who are paying $400 a couple to have said experience do not want to sit through a 4 year old having a fine dining experience...

Try SpiesInDisguise. They have a kid-required resort in my area.

The ones I've looked at so far haven't been hotels that necessarily even have a bar. They also don't require a guest, but do allow one. But either way, looking after my son is part of the reason I was looking for a shop that would allow more than one guest.

I think ACL has some reimbursement only hotel shops but from what I've read they are no place you would ever want to bring your child and most wouldn't even go it alone.