It’s funny how you keep trying to reduce it to one venue that you can incorrectly claim was fully replaced. It was not just one venue. The idea that attendance rose and required closing more venues is a complete farce.
A table service restaurant allocates more square footage per person than a quick service restaurant. Turnover at table service is also greater than quick service, averaging about 60 mins versus 20 - 30 minutes for quick service. These two facts mean that a quick service will have about 2x - 3x the hourly capacity of a table service that occupies the same size. Skipper Canteen is not only not 2x the size of the Adventureland Verandah, it is in fact a smaller venue occupying only a portion of the space.
Be Our Guest is not 2x the size of the Tomorrowland Terrace which also goes unused as a quick service venue.
Mobile Order does not somehow magically increase kitchen output, it does nothing to increase capacity.
In -ark programming, kiosks often only get a partial meal count when calculating meals capacity because they offer what is more considered a snack than a full meal. Even where they do count as a full meal service, they are absolutely nothing compared to the output of a well designed quick service kitchen. They simply don’t match in terms of capacity. Carts and ODV usually doesn’t even count for meals and are even less capacity.
No speculation necessary if you know the basic numbers involved. It’s like saying a mini-can is a full replacement for a 2L bottle.
There are more people and they aren’t eating substantially less food in a day. Not hard to figure out.
For so many words, its crazy that you come no where near any tangible data to support your point.
Do you anywhere point to what capacity was in 1994...no.
Do you anywhere show that capacity for food has been reduced since 1994....or increased....no, because you don't have any data. You have nothing to support your point other than a certain place was closed 30 years ago, no one missed it, but somehow it needs to be replaced. And what makes it all even more useless, is that none of that matters.
You also have absolutely nothing to show that no matter the positive/negative change in number of food offering available now versus some arbitrary time in the past, that there is a practical LACK of availability NOW, given current demand. What was there in 1994 is about as useful information as tits on a bull, when determining if there is a proper amount of capacity NOW, for the current attendees. It doesn't matter what happened in the past. It doesn't matter what the actual food capacity was back in 1994, 1975, 2005, or any other time period. What matters is that is the available offerings NOW appropriate for the customers of today.
I can point very easily to the data that MK didn't have an offering to provide attendees a place where they could get an adult beverage outside of a sit down full meal restaurant. This undisputedly fills a hole that wasn't been served prior to it coming into existence. Show many anything that points to the fact that today, Disney needs more standard food capacity, other than a call back to pepperidge farm days that grandpa could get his pineapple burger and he can't now.
That's discounting the ideas that mobile ordering doesn't increase throughput, which almost any industry survey/study shows it does, or that eating trends haven't changed.
