OK GUYS SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH I SPEAK A LOT BETTER THAN I WRITE BUT I REALLY THOUGHT THAT YOU GUYS WERE GREEKS SORRY FOR JOINING WITHOUT ACTUALLY KNOW

And the point is?

Many times, The New portions are throw aways and that is a shame and a crime.

Not everyone can or wants to eat that much.

Burger King: Example!

Jr. Cheese Burger and smal fries is more than enough!:cool:

Not a problem.

Not a probelem from some!

I for one always like to meet new people!:)

But she's been a member nearly two years?!?!?

I do this all the time. I like the smaller portions; they are just the right amount of food. Regular sized meals are often too much for me and biggie sized is just plain gluttonous (unless I haven't eaten all day, in which case my stomach still isn't better equipped to handle all that food, but I'll feel better about eating it.) I just get a "boy" toy so that they have a harder time telling it's for me. I eat the food, give the toy to my nephew, and call it a day. :cool:

Panda express has an AWES kids meal which I often order since their portions are WAAYY huge, and it comes with Jello or a cookie !! :p

I'll do the fast food kid's meal, but I'm usually too embarrassed to do so in a "real" restaurant. Except in Chicago, where the portions are too massive from the get-go!


ETA: Taking this a step further, a sister's father was the Chairman of the Communications Departement at Allegheny, and he was the one who turned me onto the Happy Meal. Costs less, and you get a toy (for his granddaughters, of course!).

Was that the commercial that claimed, a full meal and change back from your dollar?

My SAI chapter had our province officer visit this past weekend. And, we took her to Ihop for breakfast.

Well, Caroline and I wanted to order from the kids menu because frankly, adult portions are just too much.

THE WAITRESS TOLD US NO! WE COULD NOT ORDER FROM THE KIDS MENU!!

I wanted to look at her and say, well, I am an adult and I can make that decision for myself. Thanks.

Many restaurants specifically limit the kids' menu to ages 10 or 12 and under.

Kids' menus may have smaller portions, but it still has the fat and calories.

From the Globe and Mail:

Or to a Seniors Menu, for the older patron. You can get around a fattening kid's menu with some of the new options, but if you're over 12 and under 55, you're pretty much going to pay full price at a sitdown restaurant.

Which is why I try to get a mini-fridge in my room when I travel!

McDonalds 4 piece chicken nuggets w/apples and applejuice is what my 3 year old gets (and likes better than fries and soda). Yeah, so the nuggets still have some fat, but she's a good 5-8 lbs underweight and stops moving and squirming to take a nap and that's about it, so I'm not worried about it.

... And that's the problem I have with most kids' menus. Starting when I was 8 or 9, I rejected the kids' menu and asked for a "real" menu. :p If my parents are taking me to (say) an Indian restaurant or a tapas bar, why the hell would I want chicken fingers??! If I'd wanted chicken fingers, my parents would have taken me to Mickey D's. I was a weird kid, though - my parents introduced me to a lot of different cuisines, so I appreciated foods that most kids wouldn't touch with a barge pole. I can see where some kids would turn up their noses at chicken tikka masala and want their cheeseburgers.

One of my favorite restaurants was an Italian restaurant where you could order full or half portions of any pasta item they offered - no matter how old or young you were. Their full portions were ginormous, so I'd get half portions all the time. Sadly, they've closed.

I have ordered from the kids menu at so many sit down and wait restruarants. I've done it at Carabas, Olive Garden, TGI Fridays.....

I just don't see a problem with it. If I have a whole bunch of food on my plate I'm going to feel pressured to eat it all because I don't want to waste food.

A kid's meal is generally enough to fill me up. I don't need all that extra mess.

That's fine. But, speaking from experience, many people will throw a fit at a waiter who says, "I'm sorry, I can only order that for someone who is 10 or under." It's not the waiter's fault. It's not the waiter's decision. It is a corporate decision and the waiter has to follow rules. We were even threatened for a time that if we ordered a kid's item for an adult, teenager, etc., and got caught, the waiter would have to pay for the meal.

The other reason the restaurant that I worked for stuck to this rule: We would have 5 16 year old girls or 3-4 SMU girls come in, order 1 and 2 kids items, waters all around, keep asking over and over for more bread, and then leave a $1-$2 tip for their $5-$10 meal. On most nights when I could make $10-$15 dollars on average from a table that only ran me half as much, it gets old real quick.

(AlwaysSAI, I'm not saying you did this. I am explaining why many restaurants have this policy and stick to it.)

Yes and always irks me.

I do not eat that much and I want to order enough to make me full and not let it be thrown away with is a huge loss for eateries and a waste.

I tip on the service and food. Also usually tip very well as that is how they make their money.

But there will always be cheap asses who do not tip or maybe they can't.

And, we all have to pay for sins of a few.

I generally tip pretty well--unless, of course, I got jipped on service.

(Although, I'm sure you would never do that, LaneSig :rolleyes:)

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An adult meal is just too much food for me--is my argument. Like, you wanna talk about the obesity crisis in America-restruants banning us from the kids menu is doing nothing but perpetuating the problem.
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Take-home box, darling. Lunch for the next day.

yeah, but it's not always real great left over. You know, some things you can take home and others you can't.

Like, salad that I had already dowsed in dressing-no thanks. Or a half eaten burger with mustard and ketchup and lettuce--we all know that stuff doesn't nuke well.

I'm probably just a whiny face.

Yep, sorry, but many times in life we all have to pay for what others have done.

I have never been accused to being cocky or having overwhelming self esteem. But, I do know that I am a great waiter. And, when I do have a table like the one I described, I will especially make sure that I give them great service, so if/when I get screwed on the tip, I know it wasn't something that I did. If I know things aren't going well with my tables, every other phrase out of my mouth is "I'm so sorry." There have been times that I have made more in 1 month from waiting tables than I have teaching school. So, yeah, it is something that I never do.

I agree ! Or there's times when you have no fridge to put the left overs in until they would go bad.

....or you could use a doggy bag?