Sheffield: Dad’s fury after his son, 10, refused kids discount | UK News

A dad has hit out at an ‘all you can eat’ Chinese restaurant for measuring his 10-year-old son and charging him full price.

Craig Cantrill took his son and friend of the same age to the Wong Ting buffet restaurant in Sheffield.

A waitress at the restaurant measured Craig’s son and decided he should pay the full adult price whereas the friend of the same age got a kid’s discount.

Craig told The Star: ‘We sat down for the meal and a lady came over and took them away – I thought it was for a lollipop or something.

‘They had a measuring stick and measured their height. They came over and said they would be charging full price for my son.

‘It was on my mind all the time and it totally ruined my evening.’

Craig said the experience left a ‘bitter taste’ in his mouth, as the other boy, who is shorter than his son, was charged the child’s rate.

The dad claims the Cantonese restaurant’s menus state the prices are height-dependent but says it did not give the height limits.

But restaurant boss Lance Pang has hit back at Craig and branded him ‘ignorant’ and moaning ‘is a waste of time’.

Lance claims the restaurant’s menu clearly says the height limit for the kids’ discount is 1.4m.

The restaurant owner said: ‘I will stick to my guns as this is our policy. If you don’t like it, you have the option to leave.

‘People are ignorant. It’s on the menu.

‘Sometimes you get a child who is 15 and six-foot-two and they eat more than anyone else.’

He insisted the policy is widely adopted across the buffet restaurant industry.

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