Warning: New Menus for Kids at Some TS Restaurants

[Topper]

So are all the cute kids desserts gone now? Like the smores and moose at Le Cellier, worms and dirt, etc etc etc. My kids still talk constantly about the kids desserts. We may have to switch to more buffets......

Why is allears so behind on all these new menus? Many restaurants changed in early September and allears still isn't updated?

Yvonne

All Ears relies on people like you and me to send them menus when they are updated. If you look at the top of the All Ears menu page, there are email and snail mail addresses to send menu updates/changes.

 

[tinkerbell27]

So , at LTT Character dinner, kids can no longer get the Thanksgiving Meal ??

Or, was the change just for lunch ??
Thanks, kelly

 

[Stimpy]

So , at LTT Character dinner, kids can no longer get the Thanksgiving Meal ??

Or, was the change just for lunch ??
Thanks, kelly

It sounds like it is just for lunch. The Buffets and family style/all-you-can eat placess are not affected.

 

[jenga1030]

I think offering healthy food for the kids is great! And I think offering fun, kid type foods is great too! It is vacation!

The problem I think I would have with this is if the menu is the same at every restaurant. I can't imagine having the same choices at LE Cellier, Sci Fi, Mama Melrose, etc.... Especially when there are only 5 things to choose from. After a week that would get old! What's wrong with each restaurant having some different things on it just like they offer adults?

We look to our TS meals to add some variety to the kids eating habits, since they eat the same things all the time at CS places. I'm glad we went before this change, I'll have to rethink some stuff before next year.

 

[triplefigs]

So , at LTT Character dinner, kids can no longer get the Thanksgiving Meal ??

Or, was the change just for lunch ??
Thanks, kelly

We ate LTT for dinner on 9/29. It was still the "Thanksgiving meal" for all of us. Very yummy!

 

[triplefigs]

I think offering healthy food for the kids is great! And I think offering fun, kid type foods is great too! It is vacation!

The problem I think I would have with this is if the menu is the same at every restaurant. I can't imagine having the same choices at LE Cellier, Sci Fi, Mama Melrose, etc.... Especially when there are only 5 things to choose from. After a week that would get old! What's wrong with each restaurant having some different things on it just like they offer adults?

We look to our TS meals to add some variety to the kids eating habits, since they eat the same things all the time at CS places. I'm glad we went before this change, I'll have to rethink some stuff before next year.

I agree completely. It's not the new choices that are the problem. My kids loved them. It was the fact that they had the SAME CHOICES everywhere we went. That got old very fast. For next year, we'll eat at more buffets to vary the selection.

 

[liamsaunt]

Is this new children's menu going to apply to the "signature dining" restaurants also? I made most my adrs at the signature places going off the menus on allears, and my previous experiences dining there, knowing my niece and nephew could get things like salmon and grilled steak in child-sized portions at these places. Nephew can't eat chicken nuggets, pizza etc. (allergies)

We are not on the dining plan, but I thought I would post here since this seems to be the most active thread for this topic.

 

[McKelly]

I am curious about the signature restaurants too, are they really going to serve the kid's meals on a paper plate at these restaurants?

 

[my2minnies]

We were there last week before any real changes, but I did notice that they had already made lots of changes in their CS restaurants. I loved that fact that they had healthy options to choose, but there were only two options in most places. My kids ate the grilled chicken lots of times and liked it, but it was usually one of two choices. Mac and Cheese was offered a lot, but my kids dont really like that. I dont think fries were offered anywhere we ate which I think is great in some ways. It really stinks for those who have kids who are picky and wont eat much. I wish we could have had more choices for this kids and a french fry or two would not have hurt them. EVERYTHING came with applesauce--got kind of boring by day two!

Like many said--it is great they are going the healthy route, but there should be more choices.

 

[wdwfamilyinIL]

I am trying to narrow down where we want to eat at, and this news just gets more disappointing. I was reading the sample menu allears had on their site today, and for my children it doesn't look good. They like their steak.
I would like to comment about a post I read that stated they were glad disney is doing this so kids don't end up overweight. Its not just what a child eats for a week or so its that childs overall life. My oldest son could out eat his dad in a heartbeat, and eats everything, but there isn't an once of fat on him. He burns off everything he puts in his mouth. I just wanted to point out its more than just diet that makes someone overweight.
Also as noted above this is vacation, kids should be able to enjoy themselves a little, after all how many adults are "watching" what they eat?

 

[OurDogCisco]

Oh boy.... I just purchased the dining plan for us for our December trip. I think the choices will be okay for my 5 1/2 year old but my 9 year old isn't going to like them. I think, we'll probably just end up buying more out of pocket than we intended too. I guess, I'll just have to report when I get back.

 

[DizzKneeGeek]

I would like to comment about a post I read that stated they were glad disney is doing this so kids don't end up overweight. Its not just what a child eats for a week or so its that childs overall life.

I didn't say it did. I just think it's a good idea that Disney is trying not to contribute to child obesity. WDW gets such a bad rap with other things; they will eventually be blamed and sued for fat kids...just like Mc Donalds.

My oldest son could out eat his dad in a heartbeat, and eats everything, but there isn't an once of fat on him. He burns off everything he puts in his mouth.

Congatulations! Your son has been blessed with a very high metabolism...for now. I was a skinny rail till about 4th grade. Then my meatabolism slowed down. My intake of food did not. I hope your kid keeps his fast metabolism...for his sake. It should also be noted that just because a person is not 'fat'; that doesn't mean they are 'healthy'. Bad foods wreak havoc on the inside of the body whether it shows on the outside or not.

Also as noted above this is vacation, kids should be able to enjoy themselves a little

True

after all how many adults are "watching" what they eat?

I am

 

[DizzKneeGeek]

The problem I think I would have with this is if the menu is the same at every restaurant.

Is this true? If so; I believe that is wrong. While I believe that the food offereing for children should be healthy; I do believe in a wide array of choices for them as well.

 

[dbmarie]

I'm happy to see healthy choices with all of the desert my girls eat I need to balance it out somewhere . Outside of Disney restaurants kids meals are usually the standard mac-n-cheese, hamburger, chicken nuggets so I don't really see the big deal.

 

[DisOrBust]

Sorry but this is just not customer friendly. The CS choices are bad enough but now the TS are no better.

 

[Tinkerbelle32]

Well, I was actually considering adding on the dining plan untill now. I have to agree the counter service meals should be different than table service meals. We like eating healthy food, but after a day or two the same foods get quite boring. This definately bums me out!!

 

[DCDisney]

. Outside of Disney restaurants kids meals are usually the standard mac-n-cheese, hamburger, chicken nuggets so I don't really see the big deal.

The problem though is that if the kids don't like the 2 alacarte choices they won't get desserts at all. Each of the set meals comes with apples, yogurt, etc instead of dessert. Or I guess what they hope is that parents will spend the extra $3 OOP and buy the kids desserts?

Also the other issue is that with outside restaurants you typically aren't eating at the same place every day for a week or more. Any of these meals is fine once but multiple times not so good.

If you could mix and match the set meals it would be workable but when you have a nugget eater who'd gladly eat carrots and apples but only gets sweet potatoes and beans it'd not going to be pleasant. My kids eat decent amounts of fruits and veggies but not much variety and anything shredded and mixed is definitely a no. Plus pizza that is on a pizza is just not going to fly. My kids gets super healthy whole wheat pizza at school that they will eat because it looks like pizza but if you put it on a pita that just doesn't look right to many kids.

Healthy meals are only helpful if kids wille eat them. I just have visions of my kids hardly eating the meals and living on the snacks whereas in previous visits it's been much more workable.

Yvonne

 

[BlindTyldak]

It's really too late for me to change our ADR's to more buffets, most likely . . . this is horrible. My daughter is going to get incredibly sick of chicken. She doesn't like pasta at all and hates yogurt and applesauce, and we made our TS ADR's on the availablity of a good selection for her (grilled cheese, steak, fish, etc.) at various restaurants. Since I paid for the DDP I'm going to be absolutely furious if we end up with child TS credits left over because we had to pay OOP for adult meals for her so she wouldn't have to eat the same things night after night after night.

 

[lkjasd]

For those of you going soon I would suggest buying adult meals for the kids if you can't get good selection. I realize I will get flamed for this but I ended up sharing my steak at Tony's with the kids. Luckily I wasn't real hungry so it wasn't a big deal. The credits aren't separated between adults and kids so just tell them you are ordering two meals for yourself. Yes, I realize this is unethical but when you have to make ADRs 180 days ahead of time and you plan based on meal variety for your kids you have to do something to get them to eat.

Flame away.

 

[OurDogCisco]

I'm happy to see healthy choices with all of the desert my girls eat I need to balance it out somewhere . Outside of Disney restaurants kids meals are usually the standard mac-n-cheese, hamburger, chicken nuggets so I don't really see the big deal.

Actually, I don't find that to be true... For example at Black Angus (a steak restaurant) they serve:

For Kids 12 & under

All meals come with french fries, carrots with ranch dressing and a scoop of vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and red sprinkles.

Top Sirloin

BBQ Ribs

Mac & Cheese (Kraft®)

Chicken Strips

Hamburger

Cheese Pizza

Here's a Chevy's menu:

All Kiddie Meals include French Fries, Sweet Corn Tomalito, Fresh Fruit, and a complimentary sugar-dipped Kiddie Kone!!

Flour Flauta
Cheese, Beef or Chicken

Kiddie Cheese Quesadillas
Fresh Mex® Chicken Bites

Taco (soft or crispy)
Chicken or Beef

Bean and Cheese Burrito

Kiddie Cheeseburger


I think the kids' menu to should be geared towards the theme of the restaurant. So if it is an Italian place they should have Italian choices not chicken nuggets. I think the choices will get limiting especially if you are there for 10 nights like we are. But I'll see how it goes. If we have to we'll order something off the adult menu for my 9 year old and pay out of pocket.