Kids Eat Free
This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 10:27 pm and is filed under Frugal Living. | Leave a CommentI’m a single mom and budgeting is very important to me. My daughter and I really enjoy eating out together, but if we do it too often, I really see the evidence in my checking account.
So, what I do is try as often as possible to eat at restaurants that offer a free meal for my daughter. Most that do this kind of promotion will only do it one or two days a week. Cody’s Roadhouse, for example, let’s two children eat free for every paying adult on Monday and Tuesday nights. Denny’s also lets two kids eat free with each adult, on Tuesday and Saturdays (I think).
I keep a Word document on my desktop that is organized in columns by the day of the week. Then, if I hear about a local restaurant that offers a free kids meal, I type it into the appropriate column on my document. Then, when my daughter and I want to eat out, I just take a look at my list to see what restaurants will work for whatever night of the week it happens to be.
Although some chains do have a Kids Eat Free promotion, you still need to check to make sure your local restaurants participate. I used to take my daughter to the Perkins in Gainesville, FL all of the time to eat free, but the Perkins where I live now said they had never run such a promotion.