Restaurants

Buffets usually aren't very friendly with the card -- but what they WILL usually do is allow you to get a to-go box and pay by the pound.  It will end up cheaper than the kids meal.  That will show them! One thing with that card is that the kids meals at regular menu restaurants aren't very nutritious anyway.  I decided I'm better off enticing someone to share, or just taking home half my meal. 

We generally eat out for lunch due to hubby being on second shift.  He likes it when I order from the regular menu.   He then  has most of my lunch for his work dinner!!!!

I haven't used a restaurant card.   I don't see why any restaurant should lose money or accomodate me b/c I was once morbidly obese *ahem* and decided to permanently alter my digestive anatomy. I also hope that we can come to realize that "celebrations" are about people - the people we love - about making memories -- it's about the occasion and the company.  It's NOT about the food.  Looking at in those terms, if the honored person picks ANY restaurant, I'm happy to be invited and am willing to pay for a full meal as everyone else b/c I'm paying for ambience, company, friendship, family, love, gathering together to celebrate one another or a special event.  If I spent $20.00 on a plate of food from which I eat 10% or $2.00 of food, even if I can't bring it home, I'm happy to pay $18.00 to attend this honored person's celebration.  The last thing that I'd want is to cause any attention or discontent to another's special occasion.  I wouldn't want to take away any attention from the TRUE meaning of the gathering.  But that's just me.  I've spend my whole life since the age of 15 saying to my mother, sister, aunts, etc. that it's NOT about the FOOD it's about the PEOPLE.  We're from New Orleans and this is very difficult to convince a culture of people who are eating breakfast and talking about what we're eating for lunch and then at lunch talking about what we're eating for dinner and then at dinner talking about what we're going to eat the following day!  LOL   BUT, it is possible!!! I'm sorry for your situation and I hope that you and family were able to create a pleasent familu memory!

Ryans will not accept the card, what so ever.  I dont even try it no where no more. I like going to restaurants where I can order to go and eat on in for three or four meals anyway.

Golden Coral does the same thing, they offered me the seniors menu which was only 50 cents off. The manager said that it was the new coporate policy and wouldn't budge.  So we turned around and walked out.