About 8 years ago, when my daughter was born, my husband and I had to expand our Friday mornings breakfast for two (in Israel the weekends start on Friday morning and end on Saturday night) at the nearby coffee shop for a breakfast for three, but in that specific forum of three usually only one of us would get to eat, and the other would hold/rock/walk our baby girl around. Pretty soon she was able to sit on her own and munch on some baby food and later on the food on our plate, but that would usually keep her busy for 10-15 minutes tops, so we would either take shifts or eat fast. Same was with our son but now we finally got to that point where we can all go to a restaurant and eat together. My kids have developed their own brand preferences and my daughter was kind enough to jot down a list of her and her brother's favorite restaurants on my iPhone. So all I had to do was copy and paste her original list, I added my kids' favorite and some comments in parenthesis:
1. The Original Pancake House (like many other family friendly places, they understand the importance of keeping the kids busy and offer multifunctional place mates that are also coloring paper and kids׳ menu all in one, and they provide the crayons. My kids' favorite is the kids' scrambled eggs with pancakes on the side).
2. Hinode (Sushi! They have a great lunch buffet)
3. noodles n' company (kids' Mac n' cheese with meatballs on the side)
4. Wendy's (Chicken nuggets and fries. They also have baked potato and chili so we don't consider it as total junk food)
5. Cici's pizza (cheese pizza and brownies for dessert. This is the first food my kids ate in America, we were starving and looked for somewhere to eat, we weren't familiar with popular food chains so we picked the most crowded place in the area).
Of course, being rated as a favorite restaurant for kids is much beyond the food. Coloring paper and crayons are a big plus at certain ages, kids' friendly food, kids' friendly employees, prizes, and also the atmosphere as a lot to it; we used to have a favorite diner at a walking distance, whenever our kids were asked to pick a place to eat they would name that diner until the diner moved. It was only 2 miles away, they did some cosmetic make over, became a bit fancier diner and all of a sudden my kids' didn't like the place anymore. They also tend to be pretty conservative in their choice of dish, once they set their mind on a place it comes as a one complete fixed package, they would expect an identical experience on our next time there, same food, same everything not even a better one, otherwise they will easily ban the place from their list.
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