Counter Service kids meals

[LAWalz23]

I was perusing the counter service menu for our upcoming trip and noticed that the selections on the kids menus would not be to my niece's and nephew's liking. They are 8 and don't eat chicken legs or hot dogs and even the one that likes mac & cheese prefers the kind in the blue box. Are there any places that serve kid's portions of adult meals like hamburgers or pizza? I would happily pay the difference between the child and adult meal or have them split an adult meal but is this okay on the dining plan? Has anybody else dealt with this or have a solution? Thanks for any input.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

wow...great question! I will watch for the answer, hopefully someone has one, or a suggestion!

 

[Diehl2229]

I would like to know the answer to. I have two Autistic kids that are very picky eaters. I'm hoping they will let us order what we want for them

 

[Pedler]

The kids meals at Disney CS places are pretty lame to put it nicely. Unfortunately they don't have half sizes of the adult portions. The dinning plan brochure does state that kids using dinning plan credits have to order from the kids menu. It also says that adults can't use kids entitlements. The enforcement of this is lax but the intent is that kids on the dinning plan have to order from the lame kids CS menus. (Did I mention they are lame?)

What I would do is if there are adult meals that you think the kids would eat is to either pay out of pocket for them for the kids or get them for yourself and share with the kids. You could use the kids CS credits to buy them breakfast in the morning. Another option is to use the kids CS credits to get them a kids meal for just the drink and desert then order an entry seperately. That would reduce the cost of ordering a whole other meal. Then just toss the kids entry they don't eat.

(O.K. before the waste police jump in keep in mind food waste at restaurants has no impact whatsoever any any person starving anywhere. )

 

[Tam1067]

We just got back and dealt with the lame CS kids' meals. By the end of the trip, my oldest was sick of chicken strips. I just researched which places have the best of a lame selection of kids' meals and then we planned our lunches there. It wasn't that hard, really, to avoid Pecos Bill's because their kids' selections are particularly awful. The adult meals are so huge that depending on the appetite of the kids involved, you could split meals and just pay OOP for an extra drink. One day, at Cosmic Ray's, we used snack credits to get a side order of fries and a milk for my son who refuses to eat any of their standard kids' meals. We did end up going back to our resort (the Polynesian) twice for lunch because their temporary Captain Cook's location had better kids' choices for my kids than the CS places at MK did. That worked very well for us.

 

[janets]

We've found in the past that we can split 2 A CS meals between dh and ds8 and me and ds4. The we might use the 2C CS credits for something at breakfast. Considering that we're doing a TS dinner each night I hate to have so much to eat for lunch every day. My 8yo does not need an adult sized double burger (although he'd eat it, believe me) and neither child eats PB&J (yuck!) or those cold chicken pieces (yuck x2). So we find that we split the meals and everyone is happy. At Pecos Bill's there is the toppings bar that helps "expand" dh's burger and I purchase an extra bun for ds8. As for ds4, he eats like a bird and much prefers an Itzakadoozie and a popcorn for lunch, so after a bite or two, he's done and I eat his portion.

While I wish the WDW would offer a kid sized portion of whatever the CS restaurant is known for (burgers at PB, ribs at Cosmic Ray's, fish/chips at Columbia Harbor House), it doesn't seem like they will, as they dropped the kids' pizza meal from somewhere because adults were ordering it (heaven forbid an adult should want a smaller portion of food). So we'll work with what we have and frankly, considering we're going during free dining, if I need to purchase an additional entree (you can request no sides and pay less, from what I hear), I'll do it. Not worth stressing over frankly.

We totally enjoyed the meal plan each time we've utilized it, and never had any problems with it. So we'll just go w/ the flow and perhaps check out some CS options that we've missed in the past, if they offer a more tasty selection. When in MGM, there is somewhere (I wish I could remember) that offered a kids asian noodle bowl that I had one day which was really tasty and just enough for me. So if we're there, I might order that and give the kids the adult choice. Hey, whatever works at the time.

 

[frayedend]

You sit with the kids while one parent goes up and gets 2 adult meals. Then the other adult goes up and gets two adult meals. They will never know and everyone gets adult meals. Serves them right for offering such junk for our kids.

 

[glparcher]

How do I handle the situtation where my daughter has used her CS credit for breakfast when we approach the counter service restaurant at lunch and order 2 adult CS meals and 1 Child and state that the child meals is being paid OOP?

 

[LAWalz23]

Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. We may just end up sharing 2 adult meals as it will be so hot and we may not feel like eating anyway. What I am really looking forward to are the dinners.

 

[jeannief]

FYI, some places will offer an adult meal for kids even when they are not on the menu. Pizzafari is one where there are no pizza's on the kids menus but you can use a child credit for them.
ABC commisary has stir fry and wraps in kids portions.

 

[The Sweetness]

I am hoping (even though my kids wont be *kids* on the DDp this time (14 & 2) that they will add the usual options such as burger and pizza into the kids choices, when they (if) seperate child and adult credits. This would stop people from *cheating* by ordering adult CS with child credits (which I cant blame them for taking advantage of), and also stop kids from suffering through cold chicken or whatever, when they should be able to order child sized portions of what mom and dad are having (pizza or burger at PVH in fantasy land etc...