-L. wrote:

My friend managed a Pizza Hut and they sponsored a reading
program for kids. Read X number of books through the school year
and you get a certificate for a free personal pizza. The idea
being the PARENTS should bring their child in for pizza - and
I think it said so on the certificates. Well an entire school
decided to make it a field trip to bring the pizza-coupons in
and feed the kids lunch - which was not the spirit of the offer.
The school called the manager, and the manager told them NO -
do not bring in the kids by the busload - we simply cannot handle
it, and the coupons are for parents to bring their children in.
The school came anyway, and it was a huge mess. I'm not sure
what happened in the end, but I think the kids got their pizzas.

You can't really specify "parent" on such a coupon because
not all children have parents who are still alive or are still their
guardian. You have to instead allow some broader category
of adult, and that might reasonably include school officials
who have the children in their charge.

Assuming the kids earned their pizza coupons, I see no problem
with making it a group event. It's the same number of free
pizzas. If anything, the Pizza Hut gains some economy of
scale by knowing ahead of time when a bunch of coupons are
going to be redeemed.

Steve