Mocktails Have a New Favorite Customer. Kids.

Josh Friesen, 33, who works in marketing and communication and lives in Portland, Ore., said he was comfortable giving his children, 8 and 4, mocktails at home. “Every now and then I will whip up something that either has Lacroix or kombucha, and I’ll put a little cocktail cherry and make it fancy with a toothpick and a lime wedge,” he said.But he doesn’t let them order them in restaurants.“I feel like these places that make these nonalcoholic spirits and these places that serve mocktails, they don’t do it for kids,” he said. “I don’t want my kid co-opting this thing that…