Cuts coming to every area of parks and resorts - thanks to Shanghai and Paris

[peter11435]

Id love to know what a managers response woul be if you asked why the portion has been cut, and pointed out that historically you always got 2 waffles

They would most likely apologize and explain that the portion had recently changed and then give you an extra waffle.

 

[Speedy71]

This! I really do hope this rather unwelcome new manager Mr. Chapek will not get away so easily with these brutal and short sighted cost cutting measures to the stateside parks. Of course, there will be gains short term, but the market sooner or later *has* to react to the fact that they are selling a lesser product for more money.

Especially since WDW isn't getting anything worthwhile to justify the price increase. Edit: IMO

 

[Nubs70]

Correct but you think one man recently apointed to the post is making a wide swath of cuts to make himself look better? Really? Because cutting labor is such a difficult task for ANY management type to grasp. I don't get how it builds his resume.

As Operating Expenditure consists of Labor, Material and Overhead, cutting any one or all of these inputs directly increases net income. Cutting any of these is easy for ANY management type.

This is what financial managers are taught to do. If you are told to cut, you cut. If not, they will find someone who will.

How does it build a resume? Easy,

"Through the rationalization and optimization of labor resources, the plan developed realized savings of $15.2MM/annum by gaining 12.4% in labor efficiencies."

 

[Crazydisneyfanluke]

Here's the new castle show

hopefully Higher quality videos appears in the next few days.

 

[xdan0920]

All of the quick serve breakfast blows....moderates and even deluxe sell the same stuff if you go to the cafeteria style place.

Holy cow. Throw a guy out 90 minutes past closing and he throws an absolute fit.

 

[xdan0920]

Especially since WDW isn't getting anything worthwhile to justify the price increase.

You forgot to say IMO.

 

[Matt_Black]

Wouldn't have to linger if Disney stopped cutting hours bahahahahaha most magical place on earth and everyone's on the Internet arguing about how quickly you should exit the park....I think the point is the OP noticed a change in procedure and clearly he is a photographer not some wandering tourist being a snob. But I know you repeatedly defend Disney with almost every action they take sooooo.

If he is not a Cast Member, then he is a Guest, in which case, yeah he needs to leave when asked unless he has specifically been given permission to stay longer. No sympathy from me. Maybe he should go to the doctor and have that bruised ego looked at.

 

[Cesar R M]

As Operating Expenditure consists of Labor, Material and Overhead, cutting any one or all of these inputs directly increases net income. Cutting any of these is easy for ANY management type.

This is what financial managers are taught to do. If you are told to cut, you cut. If not, they will find someone who will.

How does it build a resume? Easy,

"Through the rationalization and optimization of labor resources, the plan developed realized savings of $15.2MM/annum by gaining 12.4% in labor efficiencies."

I love that they will probably never add "also got a 200% degradation of service quality and an increase of 500% of complains against our product quality".

Kinda reminds me of that interesting study of the US management culture. That says that in the US market, its common to see people glorify and inflate their resume (and even take the wins and victories of the hard working employees below them as theirs). While this is heavily frowned in almost all the other parts of the world... it seems to be encouraged in the US.

So it kinda made me understand why some people in internet sites, boasted about doing stuff (stuff they never did nor would they done in their resumes ).. I mean, they were homeworking freelance graphic designers that labeled themselves as "CEOS" of "Graphical and Art studios" of their one man company.
And instantly reminded me of this Quino (creator of Mafalda, a political cartoon) joke.

 

[Cesar R M]

Especially since WDW isn't getting anything worthwhile to justify the price increase. Edit: IMO

for now.. hopefully Avatar, ROL and Star Wars land are worth it (even after the huge cuts of Toy Story and the stupid change of TOT to GOTG)

 

[Magenta Panther]

Especially since WDW isn't getting anything worthwhile to justify the price increase. Edit: IMO

Not just yours.

 

[Magenta Panther]

for now.. hopefully Avatar, ROL and Star Wars land are worth it (even after the huge cuts of Toy Story and the stupid change of TOT to GOTG)

The latter hasn't been greenlit yet. I keep hoping TDO will tell Chapek to stick it. Hope hope hope...

 

[Gringrinngghost]

 

[raven]

It's a "meh" from me.

 

[Gringrinngghost]

It's a "meh" from me.

It would be cool if they did this with SM. since you have the dual lift, you can make it User vs Program. I would like to see that, but it would have to revamp the whole building. Maybe over in Epcot

 

[Matt_Black]

It's a "meh" from me.

... You're the MCP, aren't you?

 

[marni1971]

It's a "meh" from me.

Me too. Perhaps there's more visuals that don't show on camera. The outside section seems a wasted opportunity. More weenie, less actual show.

 

[matt9112]

You forgot to say IMO.

He was stating fact no? Lol

 

[Matt_Black]

He was stating fact no? Lol

Worth is a relative value, not objective fact.

 

[matt9112]

Worth is a relative value, not objective fact.

I was joking lol

 

[ToTBellHop]

If the $3.5B hasn't been touched -- which is nice to hear -- can we explain the TSL cutbacks? Is it that they allocated money from the $3.5B and put it towards the Pandora overruns?

The TSL cuts will happen. And then some. I gather the discussion was that Disney projects routinely go over budget anyway and TSL shouldn't cost anywhere near $500m, so the thought was that by reigning its budget back in out of the stratosphere, fewer cuts would be necessary elsewhere. I think that's the right choice. If I had to pick a location for cuts in the DHS remodel, it would be in the Pop Century of the park, not the Animal Kingdom Lodge of the park.