When did it become acceptable to....

[Tink10]

In a local restaurant where you're a regular customer, it's acceptable to order off-menu, but at WDW, it's just plain rude.

Honestly, I'm getting so tired of all the compleining about the menu's. It all boils down to the "it's all about me" attitude & I think people really need to get over the chicken nugget-grilled cheese thing. The people complaining about the kid's menus are nothing more than whiners who don't want to have to deal with their kids while on vacation.

I have no doubt that they're the ones who feel totally o.k. to have a family dinner of McDonalds in the back seat of the car while on their way to whatever "practice" is happening at that hour of the evening. If they had taught their children how to eat properly (instead of what was easiest) it wouldn't be a problem. If they truely shared family dinners where a parent cooks & the family sits down together, the kids would be fine with whatever.

Yes, I have a pickey kid, BUT THAT'S MINE & MY HUSBAND'S FAULT!! She's not a freak of nature & it's no secret that the more you offer a child, the more expanded their palette will be.

Ugh.....It really is a Food & Whine Festival!!!

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is supposed to be.

Lots of people make special requests at restaurants. Why would you care if someone did this? It doesn't affect other diners at all. This is hardly rude, as one poster mentioned. It's up to the restaurant as to whether or not to honor special requests.

People really do this? Order something not on the menu? I have never done this or even knew it was possible.

Certainly they do. This happens ALL the time.

 

[Mcqueen Fans]

In a local restaurant where you're a regular customer, it's acceptable to order off-menu, but at WDW, it's just plain rude.

Honestly, I'm getting so tired of all the compleining about the menu's. It all boils down to the "it's all about me" attitude & I think people really need to get over the chicken nugget-grilled cheese thing. The people complaining about the kid's menus are nothing more than whiners who don't want to have to deal with their kids while on vacation.

I have no doubt that they're the ones who feel totally o.k. to have a family dinner of McDonalds in the back seat of the car while on their way to whatever "practice" is happening at that hour of the evening. If they had taught their children how to eat properly (instead of what was easiest) it wouldn't be a problem. If they truely shared family dinners where a parent cooks & the family sits down together, the kids would be fine with whatever.

Yes, I have a pickey kid, BUT THAT'S MINE & MY HUSBAND'S FAULT!! She's not a freak of nature & it's no secret that the more you offer a child, the more expanded their palette will be.

Ugh.....It really is a Food & Whine Festival!!!

I am just a parent that wants to see my kid eat while on vacation!!!
I can deal with them them on vacation as long as they get to eat food that they will eat. I do cook every night, we always eat at 6pm unless my husband is at work. We sit down for a family meal almost every night, that does not make my kid a better eater. Unless you have a kid who will not eat different things and have not had to deal with it don't judge others. Please!!! My son tries new food all the time but he does not like it and has problems keeping a lot of food down. I don't feel I am whinning about the new menu I just want something on there that my kids will it. It is going to be a long eight days.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SO RUDE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SauceBoss]

In a local restaurant where you're a regular customer, it's acceptable to order off-menu, but at WDW, it's just plain rude.

Honestly, I'm getting so tired of all the compleining about the menu's. It all boils down to the "it's all about me" attitude & I think people really need to get over the chicken nugget-grilled cheese thing. The people complaining about the kid's menus are nothing more than whiners who don't want to have to deal with their kids while on vacation.

I have no doubt that they're the ones who feel totally o.k. to have a family dinner of McDonalds in the back seat of the car while on their way to whatever "practice" is happening at that hour of the evening. If they had taught their children how to eat properly (instead of what was easiest) it wouldn't be a problem. If they truely shared family dinners where a parent cooks & the family sits down together, the kids would be fine with whatever.

Yes, I have a pickey kid, BUT THAT'S MINE & MY HUSBAND'S FAULT!! She's not a freak of nature & it's no secret that the more you offer a child, the more expanded their palette will be.

Ugh.....It really is a Food & Whine Festival!!!

I rest my case!

 

[Hixski]

I rest my case!

It sure was hard to get past the chicken nuggets/grilled cheese thing though.

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

It's incredible to me that people will actually ask for food served at another restaurant.

I think that's a WDW-specific thing (although in big cities the finer restaurants have been known to go get burgers and fries for kids from next door), really.

If you did this in NYC, you'd be asking one business to go get you something from another business. That's just rude.

At WDW, they are all owned by the same company, so I don't think it's such a big deal. Again, 'Ohana is a great example of this. Their AYCE meal is good, but has limited options if you don't love meat. If three members of the party eat the AYCE offering, I don't see a big deal if the fourth person asks nicely to have something sent over from Kona Cafe (they brought fries from there once for my niece - we didn't ask, they offered).

So I don't think it's as rude at WDW, as long as you tip extra nice for it.

Like anything at WDW (or life, but that's just too big a topic lol), it's always best to not be afraid to ask for what you want, as long as you do it with a smile and aren't disapointed if you can't bend the rules a little. It's amazing what a genuine smile can get you.

NED

 

[CPM]

Ned, they aren't all owned by Disney. And, I think it would be a big inconvenience for a server or chef to run over to another restaurant for a meal IMO

 

[LindsayDunn228]

That's because at home, the kid get their short order cooks (um....I mean parents) to make them exactly three different meals. Then when they go to a restaurant, they have a meltdown when those items aren't available, and then the parents blame the restaurant rather than themselves.

You would think the world was ending the way people are going on about the menu changes. No its not perfect, and I'm sure there will be changes, but my god the fuss!!!!! First of all, the new TS kid's menu's have the two kid's choice options of chicken nuggets and mac & cheese in addition to the 3 healthier meals. Where's the problem?!? My issue is that they shouldn't have more crap meals available (e.g., hot dogs, grilled cheese, pizza, etc) for the picky eaters, but rather offer kids portions of the adult meals for kids that have been taught to appreciate good food.

Granted, I think there should be more availability/variety for chicken nuggets, et al. at some QS places. For example, the MK doesn't have one kids menu at a QS station that officially includes chicken nuggets (at least not according to the menus listed on DIS).

Standing ovation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kath2003]

I was a picky eater when I was younger. I wouldn't eat most red meats (still don't) and most veggies (now I do). Yet EVERY DINNER TIME my mother served up meat (red, white or fish), potatoes (in a variety of formats - boiled, mashed, roast, fries, gratin) and three different vegetables. And if I didn't eat it, I didn't eat it. I didn't get dessert, but that was the price I had to pay. My mother was NOT about to cook different meals for different people - there was one meal on the menu for the entire family, and if you didn't like it, tough...

I wonder how many people DO pander to their kids and make them something they'll eat because they're "picky eaters". Picky eaters will eat if they're hungry enough - I assure you I never wasted away!

Oh and yeah my sister tried "that's so disgusting!" and then throwing up option. Guess what? It got served up again and again....and when she realised she wasn't going to get served anything else, even if she made herself sick again, she just got on with it and ate it (and it stayed down).

I should point out that once a month we had "kids food" - so that was nuggets, sausages, pizza etc. That was our TREAT. When we went on vacation, we ate meat and three veg still - our treat there was an ice cream in the afternoon!

 

[gina2000]

I think people forget a few things about kids on vacation. In the first place, the kids are overstimulated and excited. Getting them to eat is a difficult task to begin with. Providing a "treat type meal" (ie, chicken fingers, grilled cheese or whatever your child's hot button meal is) makes it easier for parents to sit down and have a relatively enjoyable meal. Sure, it's easy to serve a kid grilled chicken at home. If they don't eat, they don't eat. At home, they aren't going to walk around a theme park for a few hours in public while hungry. They'll play at home and raid the refrigerator when necessary. Being hungry and wandering around a theme park is a rotten combination for little kids. And being hungry and having something unappetizing offered at meal time in a theme park is a sure way for a child to become cranky and upset. Everyone on the DIS complains about cranky kids at TS restaurants. Why not make it easier for everyone? Give a child on vacation what he wants for dinner. It's a lousy 7 or 8 days max. They won't die eating junk. And if they don't get much junk, they'll enjoy the treat. And if all they do is eat junk at home, WDW isn't the place to be introducing new dietary habits.

Supposedly this thread isn't about kids and food but it IS questioning the practice of pleasing a patron. So whatever tangent the thread takes, it takes. The WDW restaurant police shouldn't be guiding and directing. At least, that's the way I've always heard it said.

BTW, adults shouldn't really tinker with meals. I understand people may have plain tastes or different tastes but I think it's rather rude for an adult to tinker with a dish specially prepared for a restaurant's patrons. And to ask them to provide different food from a different restaurant is ridiculous.

Kids though? I'd rather have a content kid at a TS restaurant any day of the week. And providing food that they'll eat in a vacation type atmosphere works for me. Hell, I don't always eat healthy on vacation. Why should they?

 

[KirstenB]

I have no doubt that they're the ones who feel totally o.k. to have a family dinner of McDonalds in the back seat of the car while on their way to whatever "practice" is happening at that hour of the evening. If they had taught their children how to eat properly (instead of what was easiest) it wouldn't be a problem. If they truely shared family dinners where a parent cooks & the family sits down together, the kids would be fine with whatever.

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Could you explain the above paragraph? I'm a SAHM so I have time to make a quick meal for dd before softball practice. However, the working parents do not. So their choices are to eat MC Donald's on the way to practice, or have a very hungry child who'll have a hard time focussing on practice. I'm missing what your suggestion would be to this dilemma.

 

[DaisyD]

In a local restaurant where you're a regular customer, it's acceptable to order off-menu, but at WDW, it's just plain rude.

Honestly, I'm getting so tired of all the compleining about the menu's. It all boils down to the "it's all about me" attitude & I think people really need to get over the chicken nugget-grilled cheese thing. The people complaining about the kid's menus are nothing more than whiners who don't want to have to deal with their kids while on vacation.

I have no doubt that they're the ones who feel totally o.k. to have a family dinner of McDonalds in the back seat of the car while on their way to whatever "practice" is happening at that hour of the evening. If they had taught their children how to eat properly (instead of what was easiest) it wouldn't be a problem. If they truely shared family dinners where a parent cooks & the family sits down together, the kids would be fine with whatever.

Yes, I have a pickey kid, BUT THAT'S MINE & MY HUSBAND'S FAULT!! She's not a freak of nature & it's no secret that the more you offer a child, the more expanded their palette will be.

Ugh.....It really is a Food & Whine Festival!!!

Your post is very funny. I just looked at your review of your vacation and your 14 y/o DD had a hot dog or chicken strips at every meal! LMAO! Glad to see she found foods she liked! LOL~!

 

[CamColt]

This thread has gone off topic from Disney Restaurants to people's eating habits and child rearing mistakes. Since our job as moderators is to keep things on topic, we have decided to close this thread.

If you want to continue talking about picky children and eating habits, you can do so on the CB.