All you can eat child's price based on height?!

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I am booking a meal at an all you can eat buffet for Saturday and when checking the prices, I noticed that the child's prices are based on height!

Is this normal?? I don't remember ever seeing this before and it seems a funny way to differentiate!

I've included a screen shot - made me giggle as I imagined them whipping the tape measure out Mary Poppins style!

Have you seen this before?

I have 2 nephews who would LOVE this! They are both quite little, but with appetites to challenge a large horse.

unsure but it’s hilarious picturing the restaurant owner getting out his tape measure to figure out a price.

There’s a line on the wall at Cosmo that they ask children to stand under. DS just still fits, it lessens the blow of paying VAT on his shoes when he is still only 9!

My dd is 11 and 5'10" but doesn't eat heaps. She still eats off the children's menu at most places.
We wouldn't go there with that pricing structure.

That's utter nonsense. Tall children do not necessarily eat more than tall children. They aren't tall because they eat more!

My dd is 11 and is just overtaking my dp in height who is 5ft 6! He eats like a horse and he is one of those people who can eat and eat and not gain weight! The bastard. He is by definition classed as a shorter man with a small build. My dd is classed as tall 11 year old with an average build. He eats twice what she does yet in a restaurant based on height she would still require a child's meal but would have to pay adult prices because she's tall (and apparently is tall because she eats more.. 🤔)

No, eating more doesn't cause more upward growth . Most 13 year olds will need more food than most 3 year olds, and most of them will be taller than a 3 year old.
It's not a plot to con short adults or the parents of particularly tall children.

This would've been great for me as a child. Good compensation for struggling to meet height requirements at theme parks!

My children are slightly below average height, but DS1 & 2 are 12 and 11 and are over 150. Surely that's about the right age cut-off for a children's menu?

3 and 13 year olds isn't a very good or fair comparison.

My dd, when she started year 3 (so 7/8) was the height of most year 6s (10/11 year olds). So when she was say 9, she was as tall as most 11 or 12 year olds. She still ate the same as her peers who were also 9 but she would have had to have paid the adult price (whereas her friends paid the child's price) because despite not eating more, she was born a tall person.

I avoided places who charged on height because why would I pay sometimes double the price for my dc to eat the exact same food just because they are tall.

In places where they do a child's menu is better and often they do "little appetites" for younger children and "bigger appetites" for older children.

The only people who don't see the height pricing policy as a problem are the ones who have short or average sized children because they aren't the ones paying double for their dc to eat the same meal.

In the states I remember going somewhere where they weigh your food container so you pay for the food you eat, not how tall/short you are.

Most places used to do under 12's. Seems 150cm is about the same but no question of age and lying.

Although I could have eaten their half price until I was 14! And my friends DD would have been full price at 9! X

I've never actually encountered a height policy place. DS1 & DS2 have been eating from the standard rather than child's menu since 9ish.

I can't remember when I reached the giddy height of 155cms. I do remember someone shouting "get out of the way you stupid first year" when I was in Year 11. (we all clung to the old years system as our school changed when I went into the 4th/Yr10). He did apologise when I turned around and he realised I was in fact in the year above him!

I've only seen this in Chinese buffets near me.

It wouldn't be socially acceptable for them to have scales at the door to charge by weight so instead they use height which is a better indicator as to how much a person can eat than age (obviously it is imperfect but in the majority of circumstances it would be fairer than to charge by age).

I'm taking 3 teenage boys to Pizza Hut on Friday after going to a flume centre for 2 hours. I have to lay as adults and I'm convinced they'll manage to consume theirs and many others! £7.50 worth 😂😂

I’ve seen this at a few buffet places, my children are very tall but skinny so I just go somewhere else on principle. I’m not paying more cause we are genetically gifted ;) (I’m joking!) but I’ve always thought it strange, if my kids were small for their age I wouldn’t be complains I guess.

It was a thing when I was a child.

Presumably, because people always lied about their kids' ages and it was height, or force the children to bring a passport (which not all of them would have).