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10-year-old too tall for restaurant’s junior price

Ben Gardner and his family went to an Angel Chef Chinese buffet restaurant in Gloucester for dinner. The family hoped to get advantage of their children’s meals and pay half price for their 10-year-old son and 9-year-old son. But their 10-year-old son was too tall to get the junior price. The restaurant workers said that there is a sign in front of the restaurant which informs the customers about the children’s price height rule. The father told them that he had often been there with his son and paid the junior price and that they haven’t measured him before. How can they charge him for an adult when he is only 10? Since last year they started with charging the adult price for children over 55inches.

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My opinion about this article is that I think it is ridiculous. I think it is all about dates of birth instead of height limits. Does this mean that adults with a height below the limit can take advantage of the discount? So when a child is taller than the limit it has to be threaten as an adult? It is just a stupid rule to give child discount not because it is a child but because the child is below 55inches. Children also could see this as a sort of discrimination because it is not fair. This restaurant showed me that it cares more about money than their customers. I believe that when there is such a discount they should check the age of the child instead of height!