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Where Kids Eat Free (Or Cheap) Around Rochester

Here's your guide to dining with the family around town.

We know it's hard for you to make a home-cooked meal every night, and with new restaurants popping up every other week around town, sometimes you want to take the family to try them out.

But it's not cheap for a family of four — or more — to go out to dinner.

It helps when kids can eat for free or for under $5.

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We took our kids and ate our way around town (well, really, we called most of these places) and here's what we found.

Where kids eat free

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  • When: Wednesday, all day
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, you get a kid's meal for free.
  • Age: 10 and under.

  • When: Sundays
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, kids get a meal for free.

  • When: Mondays.
  • Deal: Kids eat free with purchase of an adult meal.
  • Age: 10 and under (note: kids under 4 eat free every day).

  • When: Tuesdays
  • Deal: Kids eat free off the kids menu with purchase of adult entree.

 

  • When: Tuesday, all day.
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, you get a kid's meal for free.
  • Age: 12 and under.
  • When: Monday, all day
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, you get a kid's meal for free.
  • Age: 9 and under.

  • When: Tuesdays, all day.
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, you get a kid's meal for free.
  • Age: 10 and under.

  • When: Monday, all day
  • Deal: Kids eat free with the purchase of certain adult menu items.
  • Age: 12 and under.
  • When: Mondays, all day
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult meal, you get a kid's meal for free.
  • Age: 12 and under.

  • When: Sundays, all day
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult's entree, you get a kids' meal for free.
  • Age: 10 and under

Where kids eat for cheap



  • Deal: Dinners range from $4.50-$4.95 and includes a drink.
  • When: Wednesday from 5-8 p.m.
  • Deal: For $1.99, kids get dinner with a drink and an ice cream bar. They also have a clown and prizes. No adult purchase needed for this deal.
  • Age: 12 and under.

  • Deal: Meals (tacos, quesadillas with rice, chips and a drink) range from $4-$5.

  • Deal: $4 for a meal, which includes fries or apple slices, a drink and a sucker.

  • Deal: $4.99 for dinner with a soda or milk
  • Age: 12 and under.

  • Deal: Kids cones are $1 after 5 p.m.
  • Age: all
  • When: Sunday-Thursday.
  • Deal: If you purchase an adult entree for $9.99, you get a kid's meal for $2.
  • Age: 10 and under

  • Deal: $3.29 will get you a burger, $2.99 for a hot dog. Fries are $2.59, but big enough to share with several people.

  • Deal: Range from $3.59-$4.95, includes a drink
  • Age: 12 and under.

  • When: Tuesdays from 4-8 p.m.
  • Deal: Kid's Happy Meals for $1.99

  • Deal: $4.75 for dinner, includes rice and beans or fries.

  • Deal: Dinner for $4.79, which includes a drink
  • Age: 10 and under.

  • Deal: $3.75 for dinner, which is a choice of honey chicken or teriaki chicken with rice.

  • When: Wednesday from 5-7 p.m.
  • Deal: If you do the buffet, kids eat for $2.99. Kids under 3 are free.
  • Age: 12 and under.
  • Deal: Meals (quesadillas or tacos with rice and a drink) are between $4-$5.

*If you do not see an age limit, one is not listed on the restaurant's menu.

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