Cheesecake Factory - No Children's Menu - BITTER

In today's day and age, there is simply no excuse not to have a children's menu at a restaurant, especially at a family friendly restaurant like the Cheesecake Factory. The menu that they do have is in the ballpark of about 15 pages, and not even 1/2 of one page is a children's menu. They have 2 full pages of cheesecake flavors, and no children's menu. They are doubly at fault for not having children's sized portions of either meals or deserts.

So I was there last weekend and when asking for a children's menu I was told that they had "kid-friendly" items on the regular menu like chicken fingers. Great. I ordered that for my 4 year old and was told it would be the appetizer portion. OK. That should be somewhere near appropriate. Right? No. They served a large bowl (yes, a bowl) of chicken fingers to a 4 year old child who would normally eat 4 small chicken nuggets. 90% of what was in that bowl got thrown away on my dime.

When it came to desert, same deal. No children's portions. So instead of getting 4 deserts, we got only 2. And since my 4 year old doesn't like cheesecake, that meant I didn't get to eat cheesecake since we had to share. And after sharing? We still threw half the cake in the trash because of how ridiculously big the portions are.

Back to the point. It is just plain lazy and completely ridiculous that the Cheesecake Factory has no children's menu. They get a BITTER.

A BETTER Funeral Home

Unfortunately, I found myself spending a couple of days at a funeral home recently. All other things aside, I came across something quite unique when I went inside with my wife and children. Right off the main entrance was a special children's play room. It was decorated straight out of a Pottery Barn catalog, really nicely taken care of in every way. There was a bookshelf full of puzzles and books, a mini kitchen, Etch-a-Sketch, toy vacuum, toy fish tank, and various blocks and Lego's. In all the various funeral homes I've ever visited, I've never come across anything other than basic sitting rooms full of chairs and tissue boxes. It was definitely a Purple Cow in a sea of tradition.