Food portion cuts to increase profits?

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

No longer eating any Disney food would "Be good for most people's waistlines"...

... and even healthier for their wallet!

 

[Lilofan]

No longer eating any Disney food would "Be good for most people's waistlines"...

... and even healthier for their wallet!

We've gone that route. Eat a big breakfast near hotel , enter park, snack throughout the day, eat light dinner near hotel later in the night.

 

[John park hopper]

All of your examples are done usually to keep the price the same and or the quality of the product. Also none of your examples are in a bubble. (Think sports games...theme parks...movie theaters.) Places the vendor has zero compitition and thus you are already paying rediculous prices.

The reason people are upset is because of this damn trend. Its take take take. Across the whole board.

Sports venues, movies, concerts etc have a small volume of patrons and have a limited amount of time (few hours) to make their money therefore they are forced to charge high prices. Disney on the other hand is open 365 days a year and generally 10-12 hours a day there is no reason to jack the prices up with the high volume of people other than pure greed.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Keys to the Kingdom only goes down in the Main St area. Frontierland/Adventureland was always the worst smelling part. Just wreaks of garbage that whole walk.

Yes. Yes it does. It's god awful.

 

[Magenta Panther]

No longer eating any Disney food would "Be good for most people's waistlines"...

... and even healthier for their wallet!

No kidding. Every time I see a food review at the Site That Must Not Be Named, I get nauseous at all the sugar, fondant and other crap on those damned cookies and cupcakes. I'm not a health nut but jeez...do people actually eat those things?

As for Disney food overall, the worst hamburgers I've ever had in my life were at Cosmic Ray's and the Backlot Express. Similarly gray color, similarly chewy gristly consistency. Bleah. Just awful. No amount of condiments could disguise their grossness.

Now, I have had some good meals at certain places at WDW, like the Plaza on Main Street. I got a very good cheeseburger there. And I used to love the Brown Derby...but it's changed its menu, as I understand it, and dropped all the duck dishes. Now the menu is generic chicken and steak etc. Very disappointing...

 

[PaulZ]

Tomorrow we are going to HS for part of the day and have a lunch reservation at 50s Prime Time Cafe. I’m sure I’ll be harassed by the waiter/waitress for something. Maybe management could slip in a waistline insult for the staff as part of the “experience” of it.

 

[HauntedPirate]

I’m not sure about my waistline, but not eating Disney food is definitely good for my bottom line.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Hotels that are non Disney do similar. Less options to enjoy hotel offerings ( limited food, recreation, hours) , charge a " resort fee ", less housekeeping , charge for daily parking etc, pay more to get less, that's nothing new.

Agreed, but Disneyparks are the best at it….

 

[SteveAZee]

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Could you supersize that, please?

 

[TikibirdLand]

Could you supersize that, please?

Boy, you DO sound Hangry

 

[RoadiJeff]

Tomorrow we are going to HS for part of the day and have a lunch reservation at 50s Prime Time Cafe. I’m sure I’ll be harassed by the waiter/waitress for something. Maybe management could slip in a waistline insult for the staff as part of the “experience” of it.

Keep your elbows off the table, eat all your veggies and Mom will be happy. She will even give you a clean plate sticker if you eat it all.

 

[John park hopper]

I've seen some rather portly CMs at WDW ---guess they have been eating way too many of of those super sized meals Disney is known for --- sarcasm.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

All of your examples are done usually to keep the price the same and or the quality of the product. Also none of your examples are in a bubble. (Think sports games...theme parks...movie theaters.) Places the vendor has zero compitition and thus you are already paying rediculous prices.

The reason people are upset is because of this damn trend. Its take take take. Across the whole board.

It’s not a trend.
A (stay on property, eat on property) vacation is expensive.

 

[Lilofan]

I've seen some rather portly CMs at WDW ---guess they have been eating way too many of of those super sized meals Disney is known for --- sarcasm.

When a diet consists of burger and fries 5x a week as an example, super size meals have nothing to do with it.

 

[Tom P.]

I’m not sure about my waistline, but not eating Disney food is definitely good for my bottom line.

So you're saying it's affecting your butt?

 

[Indy_UK]

This woman has an absolute cheek. You can tell she works for Chapek

 

[SoFloMagic]

Salads have already gotten noticeably smaller…

And they've changed a few from grilled to fried chicken (notably cosmic rays which used to be a go-to for me). Not exactly watching out for waistlines when you give a few leaves of lettuce on the side of chicken strips and dressing...

 

[JoeCamel]

This woman has an absolute cheek. You can tell she works for Chapek

She was there before Chapek. She likes her job

 

[Lilofan]

She was there before Chapek. She likes her job

Likes her job and perhaps Chapek likes her in her job. That may not be the case of Zenia, Braveman, Horn and other top exes who " retired to spend more time w/ family".

 

[IanDLBZF]

She was there before Chapek. She likes her job

And Chapek's been with the company since 1993 - nobody mentioned that.