Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Eat Mor Chikin

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Yesterday, I loaded up the girls and went to a lunch/play date at Chick-fil-A. I think I've only been there with Hannah one other time. If John & I want it for ourselves, we do the drive through. And at our house, if we need to get fast food to feed Hannah, we go to one place: the golden arches. My picky three-year-old is pretty much a vegetarian, with one major exception for a cheeseburger happy meal. Lately, though, we've been to a few parties with nugget trays and she will sometimes eat them, so I was ready to try it. Little did I know that my whole world was about to change! Move over, Micky D's. Here are the top ten reasons I am now in love with Chick-fil-A.
  1. A continuously running, shamefully self-promoting slideshow of kids & the cow in various places that kept Hannah occupied while we waited for our "dates."
  2. Fruit cups that have real fresh fruit in them. And it's a variety, unlike the Apple Dippers at you-know-where...
  3. A manager walking around refilling drinks and handing out mints. I liked him almost as much as the bread lady at Fazoli's.
  4. Caffeine free diet coke.
  5. A play place that is safe & visible from your table without having to actually eat in the room where lots of stinky children take off stinky shoes & climb stinky equipment with their stinky sock-feet.
  6. Hand sanitizer readily available when said children emerge from said stinky equipment.
  7. Educational kids meal toys (even if the "bug engineer" toy did stump both me & my husband.)
  8. High chairs with wheels- it is such a massive effort to get two kids in, place an order & get everyone settled. This makes it a little less overwhelming.
  9. Eight nuggets are only 6 Weight Watcher's points, and they actually have the texture of real chicken.
  10. Free plastic placemats that stick to the table so Lydia can eat her little Gerber banana puffs. This one blew my mind!
Thanks to Missy & Samuel Riddle for enlightening us. Let's have another lunch date again really soon!

2 comments:

Kaolinmommy said...

I forgot another really important reason: They are proud sponsors of PBS kids- which at our house is as much of our daily routine as meals & naps!

Brooke Parker said...

I have always loved Chick-Fil-A! A girl in our sunday school class in Atlanta now owns a store.....but I didn't know about the placemats! Where do you get them?? I love the sanitizer and the books....we have so many board books and they are small so we can keep them in Avery's bag for emergencies at public places!