We just got back from lunch at a California Pizza Kitchen. True, that's not a quick-serve concept, but we had a really cool experience there, and all chains should pay attention.

For Baby A, we ordered a kid's meal: fusilli mac-and-cheese and a fruit bowl with pineapple and grapes.
When the fruit arrived, the grapes were...already cut in half!

How many of you shudder as you watch your kids pop huge grapes in their mouths and then, say, laugh and bounce up and down in the chair? That's like asking to choke. Thus, I plan to keep cutting A's grapes in half for another year or two.

So when I did NOT have to (a) dump the bowl of grapes out, (b) hold each one and cut it in half with a dinner knife, and (c) get up to wash my sticky hands, I was thrilled.

Thanks, CPK, for taking care of that small detail. You made my lunch that much easier today. I'd like for other chains to pay attention to the sizes of the pieces in their fruit bowls, too. I realize grapes don't hold as well once they're cut, but maybe parents would help your inventory move faster if we knew we could take off the lid and let the kids dig in—no cutting required.