If you could afford £10 for each meal so that your child can eat for a pound.

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On my FB feed it's just listed places that a child can eat for a pound.
A couple of them no adult spend is needed. Well done to these.
Asda don't expect. One of our local chippies don't expect.
Yet most of the places are asking for an adult to also purchase a full meal as well.
Some of the cheapest adult meal start at £10.
In this time of crisis with the cost of living a parent isn't or can't afford to pay £10
for one meal so there children can eat for a pound.

YABU. You should be grateful that a company is helping.
YANBU. I think some of these companies are all about making money of the poorest in society.

Never used it tbh, most are aimed at those with only one kid so doesn’t work out great if you have more, no Asda near
me with a cafe either, 3 Asda’s not one of them have cafes.

Obviously they're not making money off the poorest, if they can't afford the £10 they'd go elsewhere or spend <£10 on ingredients. Companies can't all give out free food especially when there's no way or telling if the customers really need the free meal or not

I've seen that list of places kids eat for £1 .
It's good because I know where not to eat, I'm not subsidising peoples kids

Not all companies can afford the same level of give-away.

And some will be doing it to increase their turnover to stay in business, rather than as straight support to the poorest

Wow what a charmer you are.

A lot of them I've seen insist on only £5 adult spend of any type. Pausa cafe (dunelm) only insist on £4 adult spend.

OP, businesses are in the business of making a profit, otherwise they lose money and could potentially close or close that particular purpose.

How do you expect a company to make a profit of a £1 meal?

Engage common sense.

I would think the ones like that are more about making a treat meal out potentially affordable for people with very small amounts of spare money, rather than people who have no spare money at all. Different target audiences for the different offers.

The best value one is brewers Faye breakfast which is on all the time.
£9.50 for adult breakfast and two children eat for free including teenagers.
Its a full hot and cold buffet. Last time I went my kids and I ate so much we only needed a sandwich at teatime and they saw it as a massive treat. Comes with drinks too so that was literally all I paid.

Are you confusing business and charity?

Do people here genuinely expect everyone getting stuff for nothing from private entities? Vote properly instead of moaning about businesses not giving out basically free things.

Asda don't expect. One of our local chippies don't expect.
What do you mean? Why would you expect them to feed your child for a pound? They are a business with their own children to feed (and staff to pay)
Yet most of the places are asking for an adult to also purchase a full meal as well.
Yeah and? It's not a charity. Where we eat is usually £15-£25 for an adult main (London pub) and about £9 for a child's. An £11 Child and parent meal deal isn't for the poor but the budget conscious or bargain seeking. They're not a food bank they are an option for people who want to eat out on a budget. Because you're right, an adult with basic maths skills can understand that it takes less than £11 that to feed themselves if they are really that hard up.

I wouldn't praise them as doing something for the community (with the exception of £1 child meals no adult meal required). It's a business, this is all advertising and publicity ploy. What's new there?!

You're really directing your disapproval at the wrong people. I just hope you vote.

Precisely what I was going to say.

These offers are to make eating out affordable, they’re not designed to be a replacement for an everyday meal.

It’s shit that we’re in a place where the food poverty situation is so dire that we are expecting companies to feed children for free - that the need is so widespread that we think everyone should be offering charity as standard.

Of course they're asking adults to pay for a meal. How do you suggest they keep running if they keep giving out free food? I think it's a great idea, even if it's a £10 for an adult meal, the kids meal is only £1.

These offers(apart from Asda) aren't to help people with the cost of living. They are there to entice families to eat there because they are a business not a charity. Most of the offers have been around for years, it’s marketing.

These lists are pointless if you live in rural Wales where almost non of these places exist anyway. Many of them are doing it to look good but they still make profit cause you still have to buy drinks.

YANBU, but I don't think it's that they're trying to make money from the poorest. They're trying to look good by piggybacking on other places with different offers to encourage people who do have some disposable income to spend it with them.

The people benefiting from the pay £10 for an adult meal to get a cheap children's meal aren't the people who are worrying about how they'll feed their children in half term.

I think some companies want the likes on social media and the publicity, but that's advertising for you.

Of course a lot of them are marketing ploys, they are businesses at the end of the day and are being hit by the costs at the moment like everyone.

but it’s a good way of getting families on where that free child’s meal makes a difference to eating out or not.

This exactly

Yes and no one is forcing you to eat there in the first place. Do you really think this will be entirely free for the company?

Anyone genuinely on their arse wouldn't be able to afford 10 quid for a meal to get the kids meal for a quid ( I know because I've been on my arse) 11 quid with careful budgeting goes a lot further than 2 meals!!

Our Asda cafe has turned into a Costa.

You know the price of the adult meal doesn't increase while the offer is on? You're not subsidising anything - the company are 😆. It's still a good deal for many. It means people who wound struggle to eat out normally might be able to afford to as a treat. IIRC Toby carvery allow 2 kids meals for every adults so handier for single parents and you can go back for as much veg and potatoes as you like so can fill up well there for a tenner if you are drinking tap water

The asda one is good for us as there is a cafe near. I’ve got 3 kids so one free kids meal doesn’t help a lot with the cost so we don’t eat at those places as we can’t afford it. But taking the kids to asda cafe for £3 for lunch is great. Drinks are included, I can eat at home and the kids think they have had a real treat. The others are a token gesture but obviously don’t help those really struggling as they can’t afford the adult meal in the first place.

Ours is a greggs although the food when it was a cafe was inedible anyway. Wasn't worth £1 😆