Using one of my meals for my mom

[Mflaherty]

My mom is joining us one day for lunch. We have the deluxe plan(me husband and 5y/o) I know it's not "allowed" for me to use one of my meals for her but does the wait staff really enforce this in your experience? What do they see when they scan the bands at the beginning of the meal?....the number of meals or the number of adults and children in the party? Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[maxiesmom]

No it is not allowed. When they go to run your plan it will show the CM how many guests are on the plan. You are not allowed to buy more meals than the number of people on the plan.

Though I have to ask, if you know it isn't allowed, why are you asking people to find away to do it anyway? That goes against the rules of the Disboard.

 

[nanhol]

Depending on where you are eating you may be able to share a meal with your mom and charge that to your meal plan. On the deluxe plan that is still a lot of food, so that may work for you. Perhaps your mom could order her own appetizer, and you'd only have to pay OOP for that.

There is no guarantee that the restaurant will "allow" it, and there are certain restaurants that will *not* allow it. Obviously, buffet restaurants will not allow it, and then some of the non-Disney owned restaurants, like Tutto Italia, will definitely not allow meal sharing on the Disney dining plan.

Last year my parents joined us for a meal at Yachtsman's Steakhouse. We were planning to pay OOP for my parents' meals and we had the Deluxe dining plan for my family. My parents ended up sharing a meal (because they're not big eaters), and then the restaurant completely screwed up my son's meal--which he didn't eat--so they didn't charge us for his meal and allowed us to use the dining plan to pay for my parents' meal. Obviously this is not something you could plan for, but it highlights that restaurants have some leeway.

From what I understand, they cannot charge for more than the 3 of you who are on the dining plan--but you could possibly work within this by sharing a meal.

 

[maxiesmom]

There are two different kinds of meal sharing. If everyone is on the dining plan, but choose to split a meal that is one kind. And allowed by all but a few restaurants. If someone is on that plan and wants to let someone not on the plan use a dining credit, that is a different kind of sharing, and definitely not allowed. And the terms of the dining plan expressly say that.

 

[aaarcher86]

"I know it's not allowed. Can I do it anyway?"

Are we adults here?!