At Erica’s local Melting Pot, they have what sounds like a super fun event, a Little Chefs dinner where kids can cook macaroni and cheese fondue and a chocolate dessert fondue, while wearing chef hats and learning the magical ways of cheese and chocolate. That sounds fun…but Erica received an e-mail from the restaurant that made this all seem very confusing.

“Check out this email from the Melting Pot I just received! Kids eat Free!” she wrote. “For this promotion, ‘free’ is defined as $15.”

That’s one way to look at it. It could also be that kids eat for free, but it costs them $15 or $25 to cook. Actually, it looks like the people who put together this e-mail scrambled the text for the Little Chefs event and the graphics for a separate event where kids do eat for free, with the purchase of an adult entrée.

Melting Pot is a franchised restaurant, but we checked in with their national media relations team to make sure we’ve got the confusion sorted. If they get back to us, or if Erica lets us know that they’ve issued a correction e-mail, we’ll update this post.

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