Kids eat free discrimination

I only suggested you could have made a different post from the other few aimed at me. Just seems like a waste of both our times. 🐑

Stop telling me what I can post 😂
Your opinion is ludicrous. In my opinion…
Shouldn’t have posted yourself if you only wanted a clap 🤷🏻‍♀️
This is a discussion board.

Stop repeating the same point made. I listened and disagreed. Just give a poster above the thumbs up or a clap.

Businesses are there for the public, it’s whether they choose to do the odd nice thing. I just think they should. Sorry that seems to bother you.

Why would they do it as a nice thing?!
It would be a nice thing for you to cover the cost for the Mum who has two kids and is only getting one free kids meal, but would you??
Business’s exist solely to make profit, not to do nice things for the public at large.

You’d be a bit naive if you didn’t realise they were trying to push the altruistic approach with here to help etc to make it appear so. Happy to use it but when someone questions it, it’s the staff who have to deal with it.

It doesn’t help me. Kids meals are portioned for much younger than mine and my lot prefer the choice of a whole menu these days. So I’ve zero skin in the game before anyone tries to call me entitled.

I just think wouldn’t it be nice if they did do it as a nice thing? They’d still be quids in on their overflated, expensive toastie. The idea a single mum of 2/3 children (as mentioned in op) could just that one time in the holidays take her kids out for lunch whilst shopping when a lot of posters on this thread feel if she can’t afford it, she doesn’t get to enjoy it ever!

People are rude and entitled beyond belief now.

At my old job (tourist attraction), they offered a very generous summer offer of 2 kids go free with a paying adult. We had every complaint under the sun & loads of negative trip advisers.

Some of the complaints I heard were:
Its discriminatory to single parents
I have 3/4/5 children its not fair
My children want to bring friends and now I have to pay for them
I'm bringing an adult friend can we just pay for 1 of us?
This is discriminatory of season ticket holders
We're blue light card holders so can we get in free as well as the children?
My child is an adult but still my child so can they be free?

Honestly, you couldn't make it up. I have no idea how these people think businesses work.

Nope, not discrimination, they are not oblidged to give you anything it's their choice. Same way as a single parent with o it one child, I never get a family discount as it's usually for multiple kids/ adults, so it's 'full' prices for me- and that's juts the way their discounts work and I've never tried to shout discrimination

They're also businesses competing for customers, it's not an altruistic let's feed the hungry children scheme. Plenty of people do have money to go out for food, makes sense for a business to want to make its offering more appealing and secure the £££s. It isn't just supermarkets now offering this in the school holidays, quite a few chains like prezzo, bills, wagamama do.

People are just skint that’s all….sad really

How do you know the restaurant can make a better offer. Restaurants have huge costs to cover.

It’s not a discrimination. Eating at restaurants isn’t a must or need. And the terms and conditions of the offer are clear- you take it or leave it.

The sense of entitlement from some is astonishing. I used to see it as one free meal meaning I’d pay less than if I was paying for one adult and two kids meals. Discrimination would not have entered my head. It’s not compulsory to eat out if you can’t afford it. 🙄

Why though? Why does it matter that they are the same age?

These are commercial businesses not charities are they not?

Really they should look at it as they got a discount.

If an adult meal is £10 a kids meal is £5 & youre a single adult and youve 3 kids its costing you £21 instead of £25

If you were 2 adults and 3 kids it would be £27.

It was actually £6 cheaper as the single parent buying 4 meals than the family buying 5

The other day I saw a ad for one free child holiday place per two paying adults. I think for single parent families they should get 50 per cent off one child to be fair.

Well perhaps she's a widow.

I mean most of these offers are made in the guise of making things easier/nicer in the holidays. The size of a kids meal would probably cover up to about 5/6 years old.

I can’t get too protective or worried about a company which could most probably afford to make a far more generous offer. I think Asda had a deal where kids ate for a pound regardless of whether an adult purchased a meal. That was nice.

I do agree staff should not suffer the headache of someone complaining.

That would be the ultimate in cheeky-fuckery.

Nothing stopping them bringing another adult friend or relative to get another free kids meal.

Oh dear, that's a bit of a nuisance.

I'll probably just have a slice of half raw toast then.😕

Just because someone says something is discrimination or any other thing, or that they feel this and that about something, it doesnt mean they're right, it doesnt mean their comment or view has any validity to it, it doesnt mean it even needs to be debated. Some things are just obvious.

Each restaurant usually set their own age limit usually 12

What are legal age paramenters for a 'kid'?

If my Dad is 84 and I am 60 I'm stll his 'kid',and so I wonder if can I get a free meal?
(I will, of cousre, wheel him along the counter so he can point at what he would choose before I load up my plate, some what akin to a model of the Matterhorn.)

Bet you are for the death penalty and don’t believe in tvs in prison cells, and think people on benefits shouldn’t have sky tv. Probably one for shooting the boats too