News Disney hikes the price of Mickey Bars and Dole Whip along with hundreds of other food and beverage items at Walt Disney World

[G00fyDad]

Do we know yet which table service locations have seen the biggest increases?

Likely going to be places like Coral Reef and Space 220.

 

[sullyinMT]

Just not understanding the pain in people's wallets here. Food prices are increasing all over, not just in theme parks but in grocery stores.
Most of these increases are on junk food items that should never be classified as food.

It’s not just the increases. Yes, my groceries cost more, too. But this isn’t beef prices increasing by whatever % they’ve gone up this month.

This is the death by 1,000 cuts that TDO has been applying to the parks for the last 2 years (at least sped up on that time). During a week when they can’t provide the themed packaging in their newest land and without preemptive guest recovery, they stick it to us with this on top.

I can afford the extra $2 per entree or whatever. Most of us posting here probably can, too. But added up over all guests ordering entrees, and WDW revenues increase way more than their grocery costs. Those new revenues won’t trickle down to CM wages, new and maintained attractions (after this bout of Epcot and Tron construction wraps), or anything of the sort. They’ll be used for the quarterly call and to pad dividends and executive wallets.

 

[flynnibus]

Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some

What looked like a big jump in workers' wages during October turned into just another gut punch after accounting for inflation.

www.cnbc.com

I'll take Averaging over the whole and acting like things are uniform for $1000...

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I'll take Averaging over the whole and acting like things are uniform for $1000...

Is Disney still paying $1,500 signing bonuses for line cooks and call center operators?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Is Disney still paying $1,500 signing bonuses for line cooks and call center operators?

Wait LOL it's actually $3,000 now.

 

[flynnibus]

Is Disney still paying $1,500 signing bonuses for line cooks and call center operators?

Doesn't matter... wages on earners making under $20/hr generally are up far more than 5%-6%... which is only about a $1 increase for those at $15/hr.

 

[Ayla]

You know what else is laughable? $40 an hour park tickets

He's got ya there, TotBellHop!

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Doesn't matter... wages on earners making under $20/hr generally are up far more than 5%-6%... which is only about a $1 increase for those at $15/hr.

That's... exactly my point.

 

[Ayla]

I know. I understand things change but for the amount of money that gets dropped on a vacation to WDW we really should be getting more for our money. I am already planning our trip for next year. Hawaii. And it is less money than this year's WDW trip.

We're going to Hawaii this month and I can't imagine dropping the amount of money at WDW we are spending to go to Hawaii.

 

[Ayla]

Didn't they say they weren't going to do this? Or...did the CFO say they were looking at reducing portion sizes + increase prices?

They said they were planning on doing both.

 

[G00fyDad]

We're going to Hawaii this month and I can't imagine dropping the amount of money at WDW we are spending to go to Hawaii.

I'm not even going to say how much we are spending on WDW this year.

 

[Ayla]

Anywho... what's the over/under on the per-day DDP price increase when it's reintroduced? $5/day? $10/day?

I think you're seriously underestimating how badly Disney is currently being run.

 

[durangojim]

The silver lining to this is that Disney is trying all sorts of ways to convince people like me who regularly come to WDW from out of state 3-5 times per year to decrease that number significantly like to one or two or not at all.

 

[WDWBryan]

If a regular bottle of soda is $5, how much do they charge for those 12oz grenades in Galaxy's Edge now? geez

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Hmm I smell the return of the Dining Plan to justify those snack credits being a good value. "see honey we saved $15 on these snacks"(which are worth about 5 dollars.

 

[sullyinMT]

If a regular bottle of soda is $5, how much do they charge for those 12oz grenades in Galaxy's Edge now? geez

In Star Wars terms, they’re still 1 credit (card maxed out by the end of your time on Batuu). Bright Suns, traveler!

 

[flynnibus]

That's... exactly my point.

I have no idea what your point is then.. when you link an article whose headline is
"Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some"

Which is a bit non-sensical in the discussion related to Disney hourly wages... which are not only increasing 0.5% which is the data the article is based upon.

 

[disneygeek90]

If a regular bottle of soda is $5, how much do they charge for those 12oz grenades in Galaxy's Edge now? geez

It was around $6.50 last night at Ronto Roasters last night. Maybe $7 now?

 

[TikibirdLand]

I didn't know that Funyuns are in the same food group as Cheesy Doodles. I used to enjoy going to Disney. Now, I just buy Funyuns. Every bag contains your maximum daily allowance of Fun.

 

[TheGuyThatMakesSwords]

Evil thought for the day....

As people can enter the Parks with coolers? How long before we see "Black Market Soda" being sold? .