Card for ordering off the kids menu

my surgeon gave us one. I would never use it.  

Hi, my surgon gave me a card that states "limited intake"  I have used it at ponderosa  and they just give me kids prices...that is at a buffet   as for regular resturants I just order and take home. I can get two or three meals from one, ( my hubby likes my take homes to)    Pat

I've never bothered, though my surgeon provides one on request. I just order appetizers or box up what I don't eat and take it home to my eats-everything hubby :-). French onion soup and a dinner salad is a staple small meal for me. Currently I eat lunch out two or three times a week, and often I just eat an order of boneless hot wings. Once in a while I'll do a burger with no bun. Or I'll do the soup-salad combo at a Longhorn Steak House and have them give me a significant amount of extra cheese on the salad. On those days I usually wind up drinking a protein supplement to make my protein quota, though.

I don't have a card and have never had a problem ordering off the kids menu. 

My surgeon gave me mine and most rest. do accept it.

Restaurants are under no obligation to honor the card.  For those who are happy to please their customers, you can get similar results by just asking  which entrees might be able to get half orders, or ask to put something together that you'll like.  One of my favorite places that will do this is Carrabbas.   Early out after my DS, I was known to nibble off of other people's plates, and maybe order a side dish for myself, too.  At buffets, I ask if I can pay by the pound and do it that way.  I rarely even get past $4, which is way cheaper than the 50¢ discount they want when you flash your personal medical history. 

Oh, and my reason to them for asking for these special orders?
I don't have a huge appetite for volume, but love good food and don't care for leftovers

I tried to use my card at the Mandarin once. They gave me a VERY hard time about it - the server AND the restaurant manager.

Poeple are right when they say that they don't have to honour the card, but I don't have to honour them with my future business either.

If you want to read about my full experience using the card, you can read my review of the Mandarin here:

http://www.yelp.ca/biz/mandarin-restaurant-st-catharines-st-catharines

That is not right.  It is not their fault you had WLS.  They are running a business.  When we all were pre-ops and would walk into a $7.99 Chinese buffet and the people running it knew they were going to lose money on use, knowing that we all could have probably ate the same amount of food as 3 people.
The never asked us to pay more. 

Now, that we don't have to eat that much, we want restaurants to charge us less and rewards us for having WLS.  NOT 

Just because you can't eat the entire meal at one sitting doesn't mean that you should not be charged any less than any other customer.  Order a meal and what you can't eat, either leave it on the table or take the rest home like everyone else dose.

Penalizing a company that chooses not to honor the cards is not right.  They have to pay for the food..and you should also. 

Frankly, I would be embarrassed to take out the card and ask for a break on the price because I was previously a fat person and now I can't eat as much. 

None of us really have any right to ask a restaurant for a cheaper price. 

You know, since surgery my ass is a lot smaller than it used to be and I'd like to buy a new car.  I think I will get some nice construction paper and make a pretty shiny new card telling the car dealership I demand a discount on a car with smaller seats.  I had WLS damnit!  I deserve it.  The world must honor my request or I will go out and bad mouth them!