Top Ten places to take your kids

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Note: As this post goes live, Fat City blogger Jonathan Bender and his wife are awaiting the birth of their first child.

The prevailing wisdom is that once you have a baby, you’ll never eat out again. Or on those occasions when you do eat out, you can forget going anywhere but a chain restaurant. Well, in an effort to debunk that myth, Fat City set out to find some family-friendly joints where everything didn’t come from the fry-o-lator and you didn’t have to settle for chicken fingers off the kid’s menu.

10) Sharp’s 63rd Street Grill, 128 W. 63rd Street. With a large menu, this Sunday brunch place is a no-brainer for picky eaters of both the adult and child variety. It’s often so busy that nobody will notice a screaming child.

9) Waldo Pizza, 7433 Broadway. Every other table usually has a high-chair. Kids and pizza are a natural combination and here is one restaurant where it seems like the servers enjoy entertaining your kids.

8) Five Guys Burgers & Fries, 14965 W. 119th Street, Olathe, Kansas. An assembly line approach cranks out grilled burgers for a headache-free meal. It’s a chain (with more than 300 locations in 25 states), but kids are part of its targeted market and that means families are just another customer.