Do you think restaurants should have a Senior Menu for Senior Citizens?

If hubby and I are out we order things that don't warm up well and split a plate.
If I am without hubby with friends or family I will order things that warm up well
and get a to go box.
I can't think of anywhere here that I have seen a senior menu,
Kids meals usually around here are spaghetti, mac & cheese, grilled cheese and nuggets.
Those are not something I order even off the adult menu.
 
I went with a friend to Golden Corral Saturday. We did not seek out a time or place offering a senior menu. We arrived around noon, which just happened to be a time when they offered us the senior price, and they gave it to us without us asking for it. Even then, the total for just the two of us was over $40.00, which I don't consider a bargain. I don't know what the regular price would have been. [$50.00 ?]

Golden Corral does not allow taking home food - besides, we were going many other places after eating, so no matter where we had eaten, taking home food would not have been an option. Besides all that, I do not want to take home left overs, generally even under the best of circumstances.

My solution to less spending is less eating out.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I went with a friend to Golden Corral Saturday. We did not seek out a time or place offering a senior menu. We arrived around noon, which just happened to be a time when they offered us the senior price, and they gave it to us without us asking for it. Even then, the total for just the two of us was over $40.00, which I don't consider a bargain. I don't know what the regular price would have been. [$50.00 ?]

Golden Corral does not allow taking home food - besides, we were going many other places after eating, so no matter where we had eaten, taking home food would not have been an option. Besides all that, I do not want to take home left overs, generally even under the best of circumstances.

My solution to less spending is less eating out.
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Customers can't take food home? not even after they pay for it?
I've never heard of anything like that before!
 
Sunkist said:
Customers can't take food home? not even after they pay for it?
I've never heard of anything like that before!
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Not at a place like Golden Corral. It's an all you can eat buffet, not all you can eat and all you choose to take home. That has always been their policy.

If you want to take home food, you can fill a to-go container with food from the buffet and pay for it at the register based on weight.
 
Yes. Then I might return to eating out more often.

These days, the prices are just to high. The last time I visited a restaurant I was on a 5 hour drive. I stopped to stretch my legs, use the lavatory and had a cup of ordinary coffee and a cheeseburger. The cheeseburger was on the deal menu. The coffee cost 4 cents more than the burger. And probably made up 90% of the profit. I figure the cost to me was fair given my use of their facilities.

Before that I took a lady friend to dinner. We split a main dish and a salad. Instead of wine with the meal we ordered a single serving of cheesecake and slit that also. We don’t need all that food. The industry does not get it. Or a senior menu isn’t profitable in these inflationary times.
 
No, to any senior menus. Kid's menus fine if food is actually kid-like. Otherwise, what really needs to be changed is the ridiculous large ONLY portion sizes in this era to additional smaller portion size options. I live in an upscale urban region with large numbers of restaurants because our county is one of the wealthiest economically in the world so many restaurant chains try to establish here. Within a few blocks of my residence are a long list of restaurants of all types with considerable churn of many going out of business. Over the last decade, I've rarely eaten out of restaurants because almost none offer small portion sizes I only ever feel like consuming.

Instead, restaurants are greatly afraid if they offer say half size portions say even at two-thirds of full size cost that many people will instead choose the smaller items. And of course, that is true because there are plenty of smaller persons that don't eat like large people, nor those with a doggy bag expectation, or people that could eat a large meal but either don't have the time or immediate appetite to. Instead, I buy food in supermarkets and then mic most. And of those people that frequent restaurants, much of that seems to be more social oriented than their expectation of food being that much better than anything they might make at home by themselves.
 
LadyEmeraude said:
In my location we already have several restaurants that have Senior Menus.
Should adults be allowed to order off the kid's menu?
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Restaurants should have a Senior menu and a War Veterans menu, but it should be about portion size. If the senior meals are smaller than average, the price should be smaller. But veterans should have a choice; either smaller portions and a price to match, or regular portions with an actual discount, commonly 15 or 20 %.

A few restaurants here offer veterans free breakfast on Veteran's Day. At the restaurant my son goes to, he gets to chose from 6 different breakfasts.

Senior Citizens Day is on August 21st. We should get a free breakfast, too.
 
Some of the restaurants here feature the same meals with different prices for lunch time and dinner time.
The lunch meal has smaller portions than the dinner meal. The seniors benefit and the restaurant gets customers in their off peak hours.

When I eat out I order extra on purpose so I can have leftovers. :D
 
Things are what they are, so I have to adapt, but what used to be a normal size portion is too much for me now. The end result is that I don't eat out hardly ever. I used to go to a restaurant for hearty breakfast or have dinner out with the baked potato and all the trimmings, sometimes three times a week. Now I feel uncomfortable afterwards if I did that. I can only account for this as something to do with age. I have made no effort to change my habits.
 
When travelling, we had some favourite places. We’d order one steak to split and 3 or 4 sides to share.

Last week we went to a brew pub and it was Happy Hour. A slightly smaller beer each. The waitress said the regular priced burgers were big, which they were. We shared one and an appy off the HH menu. We were walking so no concern about driving.
 
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