Astounding News for Restaurant Owners! (Kids and Restaurants)

Member Name: daseaford

Product:	Kids and Restaurants
Date:	20/11/01 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: One day children will be adults.

Disadvantages: Children treated well will return.

I have some amazing news for the owners of restaurants. Children grow up into adults! Now I know this may be common knowledge to a lot of people, but it seems to have been missed by a lot of restaurant owners. Why do I think that? Well, if they knew that children grew up, then they might realise that these children are their future potential customers and treat them better.

The way that children are treated in a lot of restaurants is pretty awful. From the moment you walk into a restaurant as a family you can see the look of horror on the waiter’s face. Desperately they will look around for a table in a far-flung corner, where the children can be hidden from ‘normal’ people.

The next insult is the menu. There will probably be a very comprehensive, full menu for the adults to choose from, but the children’s menu is normally a choice of half a dozen items printed on a picture of a hippo or an elephant. For the children the choice is normally fish fingers, beef burgers or sausages, all served with chips and baked beans. Why can’t restaurants understand that children enjoy good food, and just want smaller portions?

When we have asked for something from the full menu, but in a children’s portion size we are made to feel that we are completely stupid in even thinking that the restaurant could serve such an item. But why is such a request so difficult? It is the same food, just not so much of it, surely it cannot be that difficult.

Of course this is not the case for all restaurants. In some places children are treated very well and there is a decent children’s menu, but these places are rare and difficult to find.
Now that our children are growing up they remember where they were treated well and where they were treated like aliens and now will ask us to avoid certain restaurants.

From my experience I also believe that where children have been treated well and have a decent choice o
f food that they behave much better. If they are made to feel like outcasts then they less respect for the restaurant.

Children grow up remarkably quick and have excellent memories. Restaurants that treat children well are making an investment for their future, to ensure that in future years these children will return as adults and become regular customers. If only the restaurant owners realised this.

Remember, children are adults that just haven’t quite grown up yet.

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