It's a conspiracy!

This morning we took Garhett to meet with his scoutmaster for his "scoutmaster conference". This is the meeting that takes place in preparation of a boy advancing in rank - anyway, Garhett arranged to meet his Scoutmaster at Coco's Restaurant in Garden Grove.

Each of the kids had a friend with them. Ashley brought Tara and Garhett brought Dominic. When greeted by the hostess (who was the restaurant manager) we were asked if we had any children dining with us who are under 10 years old. Dawn replied, "No, but we do need two children's menus for the girls, they don't eat much". To which, the hostess stated that it is the restaurant policy not to allow anyone over 10 to order from the children's menu. She further stated they have had problems with 16 year olds ordering from that menu....

PROBLEMS??? What could be the problem? Oh, so an 11 year old should be able to eat as much food as an adult man? Give me a stinkin' break. No wonder there is a weight problem in this country. . . No, sorry ma'am your pre-teen daughter has to order the full sized, fat laden, grease seeping, over the top, 5 cheese omelet from the adult menu, not the funny face pancakes...

sheesh! I am sorry, but as far as I can tell this is a conspiracy to make all children FAT. My daughter can barely eat a full plate of most meals, so why not allow her the benefit of ordering a child's portion (after all SHE IS A CHILD) and be done with it.

It can't be a food surplus problem - what, the child should order an adult portion and only eat what they can, disposing of the remnants... Waste!

Is it a problem that if one child eats a proper portion of food, heaven forbid, others kids may do the same... No it can't be that problem- I doubt Coco's is that health conscious.

Maybe it is a financial thing... hmm.. A child's meal is $3.49 and includes a drink - we had two 'kids' so that is a total of about $7 bucks. If we ordered from the adult menu we would only order 1 meal and split it between the kids. That's about $5 bucks plus two drinks... Ok maybe $7 bucks... Works out the same.

I just hate the fact that some overweight hostess/manager is imposing a rule which makes most people respond by saying, "oh, ok, we will just use the adult menus". Which ultimately is BAD for our children. Just look at the obesity rate in California alone.

Come on restaurants... Let the kids eat kids size portions. ...Oh, the hostess let the girls order from the kids menu (this time only). Yeah, like I would ever go back to that place.