It's not about the darn cost, what if I just want my chicken tendies ☹️ : autism

Thread of neurodivergents throwing fits over a screenshot for a burger food truck advising they no longer sell kids meals.

Yay, late stage capitalism...

Late stage capitalism is when no tendies.

Kids meals!? Really!? Lmao! Noooo. The nugget platters with fries are extremly cheep. This is just "im bad at buisness" and "i also poorly regulate my emotions please dont eat here".

What an odd hill to stand and lose business on. Families with children will probably stop ordering there so they don't have to get adult portions for their children or try and split single adult meals between kids. Like. This is just such a weird take

Even militantly childfree people will think twice, because you know someone capable of that level of passive aggression won't have the customer's best interests at heart.  This could be annoying all the way up to dangerous if they don't take food safety seriously.

if you are petty on the menu, you will be petty with my food. if kid meal costs are breaking your business, then your coolers and ovens arent being fixed/maintained. if your costs are out of wack, you are holding and serving expired product. it is that black and white and ive found that is rarely inaccurate to hold these standards to every restaurant. staff will be overworked and underpaid. i dont trust many restaurants anymore. dino nuggies stay stocked in my freezer🫶

This is like a restaurant having a buffet with a plainly visible "all you can eat" sign, and then later they get mad at you because you did exactly what their sign said to do.

Also "we sell our kid's meals at below price, so if you get one and you're NOT a kid, you are stealing from us" oh cry me a river. Go have a chat with McDonalds, Mickey Dees lets adults purchase Kid's Meals all the friggin' time... sometimes to give to their kid who isn't immediately present, sometimes for themselves because they're trying to collect a set of limited edition toys.

It should not be "unusual" or "weird" for an adult to purchase a kid's meal.

If you sell it, you have to let everyone BUY it.

Actually, in the first paragraph of what you said about "all you can eat" buffet and the employees or the manager getting mad at you for doing just that, is actually illegal to do that because if it says "all you can eat", the business can't just out of the blue get mad or kick you out. Obviously you can't stay in a buffet all day, HOWEVER, they can't kick you out because you eat too much, that's on the restaurant's responsibility to take care of that, especially, if you or your friends/family/strangers are paying for the food.

Not only is this super passive-aggressive and weird, I work for a very small kitchen (my boss is the owner, I work with him and one other dude) and this is just... not correct. There's a certain loss you have to absorb as a restaurant, and if your food costs and margins are so out of whack that you're bleeding money from kid's meals, you should really reconsider your whole operation. What's the difference between adults "abusing the system" by ordering kid's meals and having a lot of children come into your restaurant, anyways?

What's the difference between adults "abusing the system" by ordering kid's meals and having a lot of children come into your restaurant, anyways?

a frick ton? like are you just trying to play stupid?

1. ⁠sell 10 kids meals: $70

1. ⁠sell 10 kids meals, 10 beers, and a couple of apps: $150

1. ⁠force 1 kid meal per 1 adult meal: $200

1. ⁠get rid of the kids meals: $300

Why are you being so rude to them?

because they are purposefully playing stupid, or they are lying about their restaurant experience and making asinine statements. pick whichever you prefer

also hot take - I might be harsh but this is far from rude. especially in a kitchen between cooks, this would come off as friendly...

What's rude between cooks and what's rude between a stranger online are completely different things.

Also why are you so convinced that they are being deliberately obtuse? Nothing they said seemed unreasonable to me.

pretending to not understand the difference in 10 children coming into your restaurant for food and 10 adults getting food is just... like come on really? that is just an asinine statement which is so dumb it needs to be called out.

i get it, people want smaller portions or cheaper options. just don't make stupid statements to try and support your stance (like OP did)

it's also interesting to see how simple curse words make things rude to some people. if I said "a ton, are you just trying to be disingenuous?" is that any less rude of a statement since I say the exact same thing? at what point does adding a curse word make it rude? if OP worked in a kitchen, they wouldn't consider the use of "frick" rude. it's just natural vocabulary

I don't really care about the food, i just want to get my hands on those Sweet Suculent Free Toys

If restaurants offered smaller portions for items on the adult menu and blander meal options for those with food sensitivities/ARFID or whatever, then i wouldnt have to order off the kids menu!!! I would also appreciate kids meal foods in adult portions because sometimes I want to eat like 12 chicken tenders or a large bowl of mac and cheese.

The problem is that they see tenders and such as "kids food" and don't offer it to adults in the first place. But that probably means demand is too low. Another neurodivergent thing not recognised or accommodated widely enough.

What does that have anything to do with autism? I get this is the neurodivergent sub Reddit, but all kinds of people like chicken tenders. Not just children and neurodivergent people.

A tendency to order and enjoy plain, comfort "kiddy" type foods - nuggets and tenders in particular - is one of those things very commonly reported by neurodivergents. My point is, the restaurant in question is assuming adults don't want such things for any reason other than because they're cheaper, which is overlooking and failing to accomodate that need. I'd argue it's so common, it would be nice if restaurants were more aware of it.

If a restaurant did this , I would go full on Karen mode

I would simply say, "Cancel my order" in a loud voice and walk out.

is buying cheaper food now considered inconsiderate? like why didn't they just charge more for the kids meal why did they feel the need to price things in a way that they'd lose money on it

What next?  Is eating meals at home going to be made a criminal offense?  Am I going to face civil action because my grocery buying will deprive some sad restaurateur of my business?  Are they going to drag me out of my home and force me to eat at some snooty restaurant where presentation is infinitely more important than preparation?