Which do you prefer

I like Courtepaille in France and in England I like Itsu and Wagamama which are good for low-carbers like me. My GDs always choose Wagamama.

I find Harvester quite reasonable BlueBelle. Ours has an Early Bird menu which now runs all day, and you get free help-yourself-as-often-as-you-like salad with it. At one time kids were free but not sure whether that applies now.

Do you have to "hot foot it" to a
fast foot restaurant ??‍♀️?
Or does this belong on another thread?

Neither of the older dgc will eat fast food. Maybe pizza but not burgers, nuggets etc. We usually go to hotels, restaurants or a cafe, so many have child friendly menus or half portions.

Tried them nearly all with 7 grandkids McDs, Pizza Hut, KFC, subway
I dislike harvester much too expensive for what you get
Now we mainly go to Cafes or restaurant chains we have one called Iconic which is very good I think it's a chain.....not too keen on wetherspoons though

When DD wanted to go into Mackers a couple of times when she was young I took my M&S sandwiches in with me and ate them in a quiet corner.
The coffee is OK though.

Do you leave the other five DGC sitting outside?

I don't like pizza or Mackers

Any, don't care which one or what they sell, if I'm eating and not washing up I'm happy

And we could go on the Big Dipper afterwards.

Book me a hotel there immediately Petra..... am on my way! how much can I eat ( muses...) quite a lot!

Obviously here in Southend we have every fast food outlet known to man + some.
But our favourite is Tangs and East. These are Chinese and Thai eat as much as you want for £7 including a drink and dessert.

I like KFC but we've taken wee DGD to McDonald's a couple of times and she's had a great time sampling all our drinks and eating nuggets! Not sure it's approved by DD though.

Grandson likes going to Esquires in Durham as we can sit and watch the trains going over the viaduct.
Otherwise it's Ask.

You can always start a thread about the latter Ana?

KFC fillet-burgers are lovely! And luckily, Shoe Zone isn't far away...

The DGC's know not to ask to go to McD's as I loathe the place. They aren't entirely deprived as both stepdad and father do take them.They're happy to have lunch with me in the restaurant managed by their aunt.

We don't go to fast food places ( even with DGC) and didn't with DC either.But... I once had some KFC when visiting DS at uni years ago, true, I was pretty hungry, but have to say it was very yummy.

I take GS2 to our local garden centre. The cafe is run by Italians and they have a proper wood fired pizza oven. He does love a pizza.

Our little market town doesn't have any chain fast food outlets. We take dgc to the local cafe (aka greasy spoon) where everyone is known by name, or to the local 'American Diner' where again it's all first name terms.

Took the grandchildren for lunch at Harvester a while ago. DGS was not impressed that the children's meals have now gone 'Healthy Eating' and his favorite macaroni cheese now had more broccoli and carrots in it than macaroni. Luckily the chocolate sundae hadn't been interfered with!

Pizza hut still do 'eat all you can' buffet at lunch time TerriBull
The have unlimited salad and fizzy drinks in the evening too. Good value

You should try Macdos in France Christine. Unlike in the UK, the burger is freshly cooked in front of you, none of this taking a soggy old one off the grill shelf after it has been sweating for a while!

I paid, not they paid.

My favourite place with children is Pizza Express, although I did occasionally take my two, many years ago, on occasions to Pizza Hut when they had some sort of deal whereby they paid very little for as much pizza and salad as they could manage, I usually just ordered a glass on wine for myself, I use the word "wine" loosely because it tasted as if it had so many chemicals in it, I'm sure it could have doubled up as toilet cleaner. I also remember going to Madame Taussauds with the kids when they were young and visiting a nearby KFC afterwards, which turned out to be really, really, expensive as I broke a tooth on a chicken bone and had to have some expensive dentistry as a result. I guess if I was American I'd have sued

Same here, Christine.
But I've noticed french people buying ready meals and other prepared foods in the supermarkets, more and more. Especially pizzas, as you say.