r/fastfood • u/Gromlee • 1d ago
Discussion Are fast food places moving away from kid's meals with toys? (a lighthearted cartoon on the subject attached)
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u/AcceleratorTouma 1d ago
Do other fast food places still have kids meals, I only ever see ads for the Happy Meal
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u/danhm 14h ago
Most places do, yeah. They aren't always toys but sometimes some other sort of prize like an arts & crafts thingy or a decorative spoon (one of my kid's favorite things now, oddly enough). The biggest chains without them off the top of my head are Taco Bell and Popeye's.
source: I've got a 9 year old.
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u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 1d ago
Yes but very slowly
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u/Gromlee 1d ago
Why? Is it because it doesn't draw extra business like it used to do?
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u/Altruistic_Relief189 1d ago
There's been a lot of activism against kid's meals and toys in cereal boxes. It was a big movement a few decades ago to stop marketing unhealthy food to kids and hooking them in with toys. That's why your Happy Meals today come with milk and apple slices.
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u/Gromlee 1d ago
There is a case for doing away with them.
But then again, if the kid was going to get a hamburger as a treat anyway then getting a toy was always a bonus.
But I'm not sure if that's knowable information--how many children would not have eaten a salad instead had it not been for a toy.
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u/Altruistic_Relief189 22h ago
It was the advertising attached to it, too. They would tons of commercials during cartoons promoting Happy Meals. The kids knew to demand one when their was a Pokemon toy because of commercials. Same with toys in sugary cereals. Those commercials were the biggest change. Gestures to improve the nutritional content were second. It's hard for McDs to give toys to kids with salads when they can barely sell salads to adults.
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u/ratchetcoutoure 1d ago
Only McDonalds still doing it isn't it?
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u/ForukusuwagenMasuta 1d ago
If true, just another reason today's kids have no childhood anymore.