Kid friendly menu for a cafe - suggestions?

Child priced & child sized

For me I don't want a drink with a "meal deal" I'd go to macdonalds for that.

Mini savoury or sweet muffins. Kids always love nuggets & chips.

Food that's 'special' enough to ensure the kids eat it (no fun paying for things they don't eat) but healthy enough to feel they've had a good meal (I figure if I'm going to pay someone else to make food for them, it should be healthy, I do junk very well (and slightly too much) myself).

Popcorn chicken, ham sandwiches and mini muffins go down well here. Something else that I imagine would be a hit would be a 'tasting plate', with tiny portions of a couple of different things (my son loves stuff like that).

Anything mini - mini meatballs, mini sausages, mini burgers, mini muffins. Fruit and vege sticks with some sort of dipping sauce/hummus etc. Homemade baked beans or spaghetti goes down well here but could be messy in a cafe setting. Mini toasted sammies. Hot chips ALWAYS go down well although not the healthiest thing. Dont forget sauce!

I personally prefer healthy-ish stuff - a few chips are OK but on the side of something better like a toasted sandwich rather than chicken nuggets or pizza. Pasta is great - NOT spaghetti (please!) but stuff like penne, spirals or ravioli. With a tomato-based sauce and a few vegetables - perfect. Milkshakes are a hit with mine, also breads and dips/spreads.

Most of the stuff you serve adults should be fine for kids, especially anything that can be eaten with hands without too much mess (for toddlers who haven't mastered cutlery yet). Just smaller portions. My 2 year old always wants whatever I have, so a mini version would be perfect!

But most importantly, as AandCsMum says, child priced!!

Also it's great to have highchairs available at a cafe and a box of books and toys.

Pasta! Almost all kids like it, and I agree no drinks. Toasties and cheese oils are also a hit! Cheese rolls are a bit of a southland thing - can of reduced cream, packet of onion soup, heap of grated cheese spread over bread rolled up freezes well, almost all southland chafes sell them!

If you had some sort of 'fun' serving plate, that would also go down well with my DD (2.5y)

Yea, salad doesn't go down well here either. Interestingly, cucumbers and carrots cut into 'flowers' are a special treat. Kids.

My girl loves a platter with carrot, dip, crackers, fruit slices etc and a little treat. Also child size and child price.

we recently went to a cafe that offered a kids platter which seemed to change every week or so. The platter contained 2 x ham sandwiches (cut into dinosaur shape), cheese sticks with a dip, slices of oranges and apples, 2 x vege kebarb with cucumeber and cherry tomatoes and a mini cupcake. Kids loved it and the platter was big enough for both of mine to share.

I think mostly healthy with a little bit of a treat is always good and I like the idea of a tasting plate and making food look fun and special as someone else suggested. Shaped cut sandwiches or "face" sandwiches using things like cheese, ham, tomatoes to decorate it... cottage cheese, cream cheese etc etc.

I don't mind little "kids packs" so long as they are affordable. Some fruit, sandwich, yoghurt, cookie/cake and a little drink or a fluffy for $5 or $6 would still give you a profit?

Biscuits/cakes made into animals or butterflies etc etc.

If you are going to do nuggets and chips etc. - it'd be nice if they were made with real ingredients and healthy as possible :)