The food choices look and sound good. The prices, by Disney standards, appear reasonable.
My only issue? Bottled water. I like an ice cold Coke with my meal. They should offer a real beverage choice ... water just doesn't cut it unless their goal is to add another $2.50 a person for a soft drink, iced tea or lemonade.
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I found it funny that in the pictures of the food they show fountain beverages of some sort, but it only includes water.
My guess on the host of "limits" on this is that they are starting slow, to assess a number of things - namely sales volume, pick up time spread, and number of requests for substitutions.
Can you picture 300 people ordering box lunches, each one "customized" and all picking them up around the same time. Making them all pretty much the same allows a service pre-pack of the main course, and then quick final assembly when someone comes to pick them up.
This is only a guess, but from similar operation I am going to say - sandwitches are pre-made that moring, wrapped, and stored in a insulated box. Hot foods are prepped, pre-packed and kept in a hot box. Waters are iced down in chest. You come up and hand in your paperwork, the CM slaps sandwitches from bulk storage in a bag pre-loaded with plates, throws in your side, and the correct number of waters and you are gone.
I think this is a great idea, and I like the fact that its not shoehorned to fit the DDP system, but rather designed for a cash guest and the DDP option is sort of there if you want to go that route.
Maybe in the future they will add soda to the offering. That should not be too difficult to handle.
-dave