Hay Gan...thanks for posting the quotes from the
DDP
OP: I'm sorry that you had such a problem with the manager. His accusations, without any form of proof, were indeed rude and inexcusable.
On the other hand: the loophole that results from combining both adult and child credits together could result in a significant loss to Disney if people actulaly do use the child TS to 'pay' for an adult meal. If I and 3 young children were to opt for the DDP and then if we all ate every meal by ordering frmo the adult menu....the dollar amount would be staggering. Actually, I hope that this loophole would be closed soon. However, it seems clear that OP didn't try to play this loophole, although she was seemingly accused of it by the manager. I can only believe that the manager might be completely unaware of how the DDP accounting system works!
It seems that it wouldn't be hard for the system to total up adult credits and child credits separately. So if I and my child were to go on the DDP for 2 nights, we'd have 2adultTS and 2child TS. And if we decided to both eat off the child's menu the first night and then both off the adult menu the second night, it would easily be deducted as such from our credits. With a large family, I personally would find it terribly confusing to remember which of my kids ate as kids or adults each meal over the course of a vacation..I would actually appreciate the differentiation on my receipts. Then it would be up to the waiter/countercheckout person to advise the party which choices were adult TS or CS and which were kids....no surprises at the end.
The 1TS per adult per day listed on the DDP doesn't mean that only 1 TS can be used by that adult per day...certainly, in the event of a 2TS per adult meal, DIsney assumes that the total number of 'credits' can be used in any combo of ways that the purchaser desires. WHen I had the DDP, 3 of us went to dinner one night and used 2 TS and then the DDE for the extras we ordered. Had we wanted, however, we could have used 3TS...even tho my room key said '2 adults'.
To allow the 'loophole' between nondifferentiating between adult and small child costs DIsney money. What I don't understand is why they allow this loophole, but insist that everyone in the room must be on the DDP in order to qualify. In the latter case, no one would be cheating the system by eating MORE for LESS like in the former. (I understand that the waiters might complain if they were serving 2 people but only getting tipped as if one person. Also, that the restaurant would be using more up more seats at a table for fewer 'paying' customers. )
Until Disney changes its accounting system, some people will probably take advantage of the loophole...but it is DIsney's job to close the loophole. In the OP instance, she states that she had leftover ADULT TSs to use for that last dinner. If her credits said 4, then unless the manager could pull out an accounting showing that one or more of the leftover credits were kid credits...he has to shut up. And if he does have the proof, he should very kindly bring out the accountings and very humbly suggest that 'it seems that some other restaurant may have charged a kid meal as an adult meal....even if he KNOWS the truth of the matter.