They'll enjoy these and they'll also enjoy eating them up. However, you should make confident the set is not priced insanely. Fun is which everybody can have, no matter what.
If your scoring track meeple arrives at a space with a token, you collect it for future use. However, some might find it difficult to get set that has the complete set of pieces.
The Inns & Cathedrals expansion includes tiles with inns along some of this roads. Once again though, if a town with a cathedral remains unfinished at game's end, you score zero areas.