re: If you owned a restaurant, how would you handle a request for a 1/2 sized entree

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If give her half and charge her whole

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I'm gonna catch up on this thread, but this is what I'm doing. Coming from the perspective of a family where my mother was a miniscule eater, she had no problem making this request and prefacing it by saying she would pay for the whole. I'm sure there was some waste in the kitchen as a result, but at least the restaurant was getting it's bottomline met. Once I hit teenage years she would just order the standard and I'd eat half. Hell, I still do that now if I dine with my parents.

ETA: Nevermind, read through 3 pages and it's a bunch of LNCHBOX shite.

You can have half, but you're paying full price. I'm not going through the hassle of rewriting my menu for .08% of diners. I do like the idea of half and full size portions as a normative option, but that's up to the chef de cuisine. If they don't choose to make that option available, well, deal with it.