DDP and OOP on the same meal

[ajm1107]

I am watching how we are spending money these days (who isn't) so I am looking at some of the menu items and thinking that it may be more advantageous for us to pay for some meals with the DDP and some out of pocket. We have a 12 and 10 year old boy on the adult plan and I am thinking that either they may split or some items would be worth paying out of pocket for to save money for other meals. So if we had two dinners that were worth using the plan and two that were cheaper and not such a great value could I pay oop for those? And then how bad am I upseting the CM. Good news is we are good tippers...

Any thoughts?

 

[undertheseas]

We have done it in the past and plan to do it next month too. Some meals my kids (now "adults") would rather have a kids' meal burger and I really don't want to use a TS credit for that!

 

[ajm1107]

Like at the SciFi Dinner a sandwich is around 11 dollars. But my salad will be above 20. Can I choose to pay for the sandwich oop and the salad on the ddp.

 

[mb_uh]

You can do ddp and oop not a problem and normally you should not have a issue doing it with whatever items you want and just be clear.

 

[NikitaZee]

We have done it in the past and plan to do it next month too. Some meals my kids (now "adults") would rather have a kids' meal burger and I really don't want to use a TS credit for that!

I hope they still do it this way. Last year we ate at Citrico's, 2 TS credits each, and my youngest only wanted the PBJ sandwich. Seemed like a real waste to use 2 TS for that, so we just paid OOP for it and everyone else used credits. I'm planning on doing that again at Citrico's if PBJ is still the dinner choice.

 

[Cafeen]

You can split the check up any way you want. Kids on one, adults on another, each person on their own, whatever. It's just quite helpful (if you know beforehand) to let the server know so they can enter it in properly. It's not a big deal after the fact either, but saves them a step if they enter it in ahead of time.

 

[purple figment]

It's not a big deal after the fact either, but saves them a step if they enter it in ahead of time.

And it will save you time because you won't have to wait while the server reconfigures it.

Servers are quite used to having parties pay with a combination of some using the dining plan and OOP for others. We did it frequently and only had one restaurant that had trouble figuring out what to do.