Chili's Kids Menu - New for 2025!

 Chili's Kids Menu 2025

The prices listed are from a Chili's restaurant in Maryland. Kids' entrees come with a drink and one side.  You can add another side for $1.49, and you can also get upgrades to a premium beverage for $.50. Chili's has experienced a resurgence in popularity after launching a social media campaign featuring the "Triple Dipper," an appetizer with custom combinations of wings, chicken crispers, Southwestern eggrolls, fried mozzarella and Big Mouth Bites. Make sure you sign up for a rewards account at Chilis.com to get free chips and salsa each time you visit, as well as other coupons and rewards.

Boo Buckets Returning to McDonald's Stores for Halloween

 

Boo Buckets 2022, Courtesy McDonald's Corp./Prnewswire

This year's buckets will hit stores on October 21, 2025.

McDonald's Boo Buckets are a popular Halloween tradition for kids of all ages. The jack-o’-lantern themed buckets originated in 1986 and became a must-have for kids and collectors alike. The 2025 collection will include five different designs: an orange pumpkin, white ghost, red Frankenstein, black cat and a green witch. Get one with the purchase of a Happy Meal beginning on October 21, while supplies last.

The original Happy Meal buckets were similar to the current buckets, but had lids. Over the years designs came and went, and the company got rid of the lids, opting for decorated handles. Much to the chagrin of parents, these buckets remained long after Halloween was over. You may still have one in your attic or Halloween storage bin. 

Halloween Happy Meals aren’t the only Halloween tradition the restaurant chain has. Each year, participating stores offer treat books that trick-or-treaters can redeem for menu items like ice cream, apple dippers and hamburgers. The treat books come in packs of twelve and are priced around $1.25. 

There’s nothing more popular than nostalgia, so you can expect to the Halloween Happy Meal buckets to fly off the shelves. If you want to get your hands on one of those buckets, run to the closest McDonald’s at 10:30 a.m. on October 21. You may also be able to see the availability of the buckets by using the McDonald’s app.

Coastal Flats kids menu

I recently moved to Maryland and so I will now devote this blog to kids menus in the Maryland/Virginia/DC area. Coastal Flats is a local restaurant chain with locations in Gaithersburg and Tysons Corner. They serve a mix of salads, seafood and classic dishes with a seaside bent. On Sundays they serve brunch and every table gets a bread basket filled with beignets (they call them something else but they are essentially beignets with cinnamon sugar. To see the full menu go to the Coastal Flats site.

Dave & Busters kids menu Summerlin

Downtown Summerlin is now home to a Dave & Busters! The giant bar and restaurant features arcade games on steroids that use reloadable cards as currency. The cards also keep track of the tickets your kids win so that you don't have to carry them around and find them in your purse for the next year. The restaurant offers a couple meal deals that include $10 in game credits and if you sign up for a a rewards card you can get an extra $10.

The tickets can actually be redeemed for some decent stuff. For an expenditure of around $20, your kid will probably have enough tickets to get a play ball, small stuffed animal or some other trinket that is waaay better than the stuff you haul home form Chuck E. Cheese.

The fries are great too.

Chick-Fil-A one step closer to Las Vegas

Chick-Fil-A has announced the commencement of construction on two of the ten stores planned for Nevada. The company broke ground June 10, 2016 on the Stephanie and Warm Springs location and another near St. Rose Dominican Hospital with tentative opening dates of early 2017. You can get ready for the invasion by downloading the new Chick-Fil-A app available for iPhone and Android.

Chick-fil-A® launches the new Chick-fil-A One™ app on June 1.

View the menu (and prices), get nutrition information and explore the order ahead feature, handy when you have a car full of hungry kids. Grab it now for your summer vacation dining!

Shake Shack menu items for kids

New York based Shake Shack has two locations in Las Vegas, one in Downtown Summerlin and one at New York New York on the Strip. They serve burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches and the famous concrete frozen custard shakes. Each location has special flavors that reflect the city or town they reside in. Good items for kids include flat top dogs, single burgers and or the secret menu grilled cheese (available with or without bacon). Shake Shack also offers Honest Kids Apple Juice and special treats for your canine children. For more information visit the Shake Shack website.

Moe's Southwest Grill kids menu

Moe's Southwest Grill has opened a location at the new Downtown Summerlin shopping center. Previously the only way you could get Moe's is when you were traveling through the McCarran Airport. Choices include quesadillas, burritos and tacos. Meals come with a drink and a cookie. Adult meals come with chips and salsa, (they have a salsa bar) big enough to share with your kid.

Give a Wendy's Frosty for Halloween and help kids in foster care

Wendy's is expanding its popular Halloween coupon book program nationwide this year to help kids in foster care. From now until October 31,2014 you can pick up a Halloween coupon book filled with free frosty coupons for just $1* at participating Wendy's stores. Ninety cents of every dollar collected will go to the Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption® (DTFA) to help find families for the 134,000 children waiting in foster care.

"This is the first time we're bringing our Halloween Coupon book program to restaurants nationwide, giving customers a simple way to help children in foster care – and get a sweet deal on Frosty treats in return," said Liz Geraghty, Vice President, Brand Marketing. "We expect this will be our largest fundraising program of the year, which rounds out our year-long effort aimed at shining the light on foster care adoption and further the mission of our founder Dave Thomas, who himself was adopted."

Books will be available for purchase beginning on Sept. 15, with coupons being redeemable November 2014 through February 2015.

*Coupons may be for 5 or 10 free Jr. Frosty™ treats. Prices and participation may vary.

Buy a corn dog and win $1,000,000 in Wienerschnitzel's 'Cash in on a Corn Dog' sweepstakes

The world’s largest hot dog chain, Wienerschnitzel, is giving its guests a chance to win food and prizes in the fifth annual “Cash in on a Corn Dog” sweepstakes. Now through December 21, 2014, 

you can win free corn dogs, gift cards cash and maybe even $1,000,000 dollars, just by buying a corn dog.

Each corn dog on a stick you buy will either display an “Instant Win” prize or a code to enter online atwww.cashinonacorndog.com.  For the first time ever, Wienerschnitzel is giving away $1,000,000 when a participant matches two sticks, one printed with the word “Wiener” and the other printed with the word “Schnitzel.” Guests have a one in five chance of winning  900,000 free corn dogs.

You can also win prizes by following Wienerschnitzel on social media and joining the “Wiener Lovers” Email Club to receive extra entries. Official rules can be viewed online at www.cashinonacorndog.com. The “Cash in on a Corn Dog” sweepstakes is available at participating locations through December 31, 2014 or while supplies last. 

Wienerschnitzel also has a kids menu that includes the choice or three main items, two sides and a soft drink for around $3.

Follow them on:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/wienerschnitzel

Twitter: www.twitter.com/wienerschnitzel
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/wienerschnitzel

YouTube: www.youtube.com/wienerschnitzel 

Wendy's Kids Meals only $1.99 for a limited time

For a limited time, parents can take the kids over to Wendy's restaurants after 4 p.m. to get a kids meal for only $1.99.  Wendy's runs this promotion ever so often and you just have to watch for it in ads and on social media. The toys right now are Superman and Wonder Woman!

Photo cr: Wendys.com

This also a great time to stop in for a Frosty in a waffle cone.