Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine a party at dinner time not having enough food for everyone.

Yes, your hosts were cheap as hell.

It’s at a children’s play place. What do you think they should have it catered? Good Lord. Get over yourself.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine a party at dinner time not having enough food for everyone.

Yes, your hosts were cheap as hell.

“For everyone” means the kids, not the adults, when it’s a drop off party age.

I can’t imagine a party at dinner time not having enough food for everyone.

Yes, your hosts were cheap as hell.

Why would any adult want to eat dinner between 4:30 and 6:30? Even if they're serving the pizza at 6pm, isn't that pretty early for an adult? DH and I normally eat at 8pm. We're only forcing ourselves to eat at 7:15 bc we have kids who want to eat with us but need to go to sleep and need time between eating and sleeping to let food digest.

The replies on these are hilarious. "Sorry you couldn't gorge yourself on cheap birthday party pizza" lol. Seriously. Do people realize that being a little hungry won't kill them? That it's ok to go 2+ hours without eating?

I wouldn’t have stayed. Drop your kid off and go to a nearby coffee shop. If the party ended at 6:30, it’s wasn’t dinner time.

PP here. I could have done with just 4 pizzas seeing we had to freeze the rest, but better to have more than less.

These days, if the kids get pizza, that in itself a big deal. Be thankful your kid got a slice OP. Some parties my kids attended had just snacks (like chips, cookies) and a drink.

I could never cheap out like this though. At my kid's 2-4pm party there were around 20 kids and we ordered 8 pizzas and we had cupcakes, snacks, juice for the kids and fruit tray and beverages for any adults who stayed

Remember you are always free to decline invitations that would cause you to RACE and expect your dinner to be cheap kid party pizza.

I always feed everyone and ask in the invitation for a headcount, making it clear if it's a drop off party (at some venues my kids pick) or a more the merrier everyone stay party.

I recently dropped off at a party and found out that the host was disappointed more parents didn't stay. I would have stayed if I thought it was cool instead of finding a sketchy deli to wait it out since it started to thunder.

I would have been embarrassed to host OPs party. Maybe they miscounted.

I think more people need to be clear in the invitation what they want and guests need to read!

I have a 5 year old. I don’t expect food for adults at birthday parties, though I would say there’s usually either enough food for adults to have some, or there’s clearly food meant for the adults. We’ve been to parties where there’s pizza for the kids and then sandwiches or something for adults.

Anonymous wrote:I would not have expected food for adults from 4:30- 6:30. Adults can eat after 6:30, and the pizza at those places is atrocious, so why would you even want some?

I'm just glad when someone else feeds my kid dinner & I dont have to worry about it. I can eat something when I get home.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you couldn’t gorge on cheap pizza.

For real. Did you really want that pizza? I’d rather parents under order for these parties than over order- then people feel guilty/obligated to take pizza since there is so much. Including the kids. 1-2 slices of cheap pizza plus some cake is plenty of kids. They don’t need to stuff themselves. They can have more food at home.

For kids that young I always ask to have the pizza double cut since most kids will only eat a smaller slice anyway and you can get more out of a single pizza with less waste.

I would not have expected food for adults from 4:30- 6:30. Adults can eat after 6:30, and the pizza at those places is atrocious, so why would you even want some?

I'm just glad when someone else feeds my kid dinner & I dont have to worry about it. I can eat something when I get home.