Every other Sunday, we like to go out to eat breakfast.  After trying a few places, we now go to a old fashion family restaurant almost exclusively.  Here’s why:

1. For the amount of food we get, it’s even cheaper than McDonalds (we still go to McDs every now and then too though, the kids love that place).
2. The waitresses are kind and really hustle.
3. The owner is a very friendly and greets us well.
4. The food is best tasting in town.  Their pancakes are big and fluffy (perfect really)!
5. Oftentime we’ll see people we know.
6. I get that nostalgic feeling that I slipped back into time to a place when my grandparents would have gone if they were alive.
7. It’s fairly close to where we live.
8. There is so much food with the meals that my wife and I order, that we ask for additional plates, and give our food to the kids (except for a order of hot chocolate).  Just lately, we’ll order my son an addtional pancake, but we still share our food with him (mainly eggs and bacon)
9. We are helping a small business in our city by patronizing it.
10. The restaurant is downtown in our small city.  it gives it a charming appeal.

Yes, we still go to McDonalds every now and then, but the kids are starting to realize that the food is better at this local place we go to.  Now they are starting to ask to go to the local family-owned restaurant instead of McDonalds more often.

Hopefully, this will be a place of memories for my kids when they are adults.

We do a few things to make it memorable for my kids.

1. We have them take up the bill and pay the cashier.  Then whatever coin change it left, they get to keep.
2. We let them stack the creamers and sugar packets to make interesting structures (my daughter is great at this).
3. We get the kids a hot chocolate (they love the whip cream), every time we go.
4. As we leave, my son and daughter always grabs a mint candy on the way out.

Not every place in town is a good as our restaurant, but if you can find one it’s wonderful!

Try to look beyond the decor, and see the family trying to make a living selling food well prepared.