The Best Restaurants for a Kid's Birthday
Throwing a successful child's party can be a stressful task for any parent. The many choices of food, favors and games can leave the party planner confused and overwhelmed. A great way to eliminate the decision-making process for many of these kid birthday party basics is to throw the event at a child-friendly restaurant, where pre-party preparations are handled by employees of the venue, leaving the parents to enjoy their child's special day. Does this Spark an idea?
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Chuck E. Cheese's
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Chuck E. Cheese's is a child-orientated restaurant that provides many options for birthday celebrations. The facility is full of entertaining games and activities such as a large ball pit, rock climbing wall, climbing tubes and tunnels and traditional arcade games. Party activities take place at a reserved seating area, central to the main stage. On this stage, characters such as Chuck the Rat, Pasqually Pieplate the Italian Pizza Chef and Helen Henny the Chicken sing and dance to signature Chuck E. Cheese's songs. The reserved seating area also offers the attending children a place to enjoy the provided food such as pizza, wings, fries, ice cream and birthday cake. By reserving a table, your party will be given a set amount of free game tokens to enjoy the rides and games. Tickets acquired from the games can be traded by the children at a prize counter for toys and Chuck E. Cheese's souvenirs. Using their website (chuckecheese.com), parents are able to send a free online invitation for your Chuck E. Cheese's party.
Dave and Buster's
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Dave and Buster's (daveandbusters.com) offers an exciting party venue option for children. This combination of restaurant and mega-arcade has specific party planning staff who is able to take care of every party planning detail. Designated large showrooms, small party rooms, smaller billiards areas or a larger table near the game floor are optional party locations within Dave and Buster's, depending on the size of the child's gathering. Food options range from traditional menu ordering to buffet style and also include a power card for each guest to be used in the gaming area. Consisting of realistic video games, small children's rides, interactive shooting games, air hockey, skeeball, bowling lanes, basket ball hoops, life-sized claw machines and much more, Dave and Buster's is certain to offer an entertaining party for almost any age group.
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McDonalds
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McDonalds (mcdonalds.com) is a great option for a child's birthday celebration because it is affordable, large enough to accommodate many children, has a child-friendly menu and usually contains a designated play area or self-contained party room. Party packages hosted by McDonalds include Happy Meals, party favors, birthday cake and decorations. A party host is also provided by McDonalds to organize and manage the entire party. Their services include setting up party location, orchestrating games, handing out prizes and cleaning up after. McDonalds asks that parties be planned in advance to allow for organization and to ensure proper staffing and availability of designated party area.
Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut (pizzahut.com) offers parents a very reasonably priced option for any child's birthday party. For $5.99, Pizza Hut will provide each child with her choice of a 6-in., one topping, personal-sized pan pizza, a kid's portion of pasta or 5 WingStreet wings as well as a collectible cup with lid and straw filled with choice of soft drink, activity book and kids coloring placemats. Parties for 10 or more children that are planned at least 10 days in advance will be provided a party host or hostess to guide the party, served a special birthday WingStreet apple pie dessert and cleaned up after the party.
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