Fountain View Ice Cream closing in early April for Starbucks conversion

PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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DaveStuart said:
That made me laugh! I enjoy Starbucks, and will enjoy it being available at WDW.

Along with Pizza Hut in Italy, perhaps Tim Hortons in Canada, Taco Bell in Mexico, Panda Express in China and of course, McDonald's at The American Adventure? (These are all additional attempts at humor/sarcasm, in case that's not coming through loud and clear) :)
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F(rak) Tim Hortons. F(rak) Pizza hut. F(rak) Taco Bell, Panda Express and McDonalds. Especially the F(rak)ing McDonalds in Championsgate that has a line out the door but three employees on break? F(rak) them all and their F(rak)ing customer service that basically equates to "give us all your money, take our (Pooh!), sit the F(rak) down and shut the F(rak) up!"

(These are all additional attempts to channel the one true Pope, Doctor Denis Leary.)
 
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Tim_4

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Lol @ all of you getting righteously indignant at the loss of this "unique experience." It's EDY'S ice cream people. Edy's, as in "owned by Nestlé." Nestlé, as in "the largest food company in the world." Starbucks is a boutique small business compared to Nestlé so how about we get off our high horses?

PhotoDave219 said:
F(rak) Tim Hortons. F(rak) Pizza hut. F(rak) Taco Bell, Panda Express and McDonalds. Especially the F(rak)ing McDonalds in Championsgate that has a line out the door but three employees on break? F(rak) them all and their F(rak)ing customer service that basically equates to "give us all your money, take our (Pooh!), sit the F(rak) down and shut the F(rak) up!"

(These are all additional attempts to channel the one true Pope, Doctor Denis Leary.)
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You're going to the wrong McDonalds. There's another one literally a mile away. Corner of Old Lake Wilson and Osceola-Polk County Line Road.
 
JenniferS

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BrianLo said:
I know this was a completely sarcastic post, but Tim Horton's is not an American imitation of "Canada" - it is a chain Canadian's take personal pride in and identify with (or at least Provincially in Ontario). I think all the Winter crowds coming down would absolutely love it.

Plus, if they ran a version of Roll up the Rim (the best restaurant contest) 365 days a year - we might actually call it an E-ticket.... :p

Maybe even get a Sponsorship from them....

But yes, the other chains would be a travesty to any of their pavilions.
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Timmy's is such a Canadian institution that we even had an outlet outside our Kandahar military base for 5 1/2 years.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/tim-hortons-closing-shop-at-canadian-afghan-base-1.730698
Horton's vs Starbuck's - there is NO comparison.
 
flFigment

flFigment

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TP2000 said:
If you entered DCA through the main entrance at any time since June 15, 2012 you walked right past the new Starbucks.

But you probably didn't recognize it since it's not really a Starbucks, it's actually the Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café (get it?), which is a café run by the famous singing Silverlake Sisters on 1930's Buena Vista Street.

Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café (Starbucks) on Buena Vista Street - Disney California Adventure, 2012
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Even if you went inside, you wouldn't have recognized it as a Starbucks. It's a 1930's neighborhood café, and the Silverlake Sisters are the proprietors and they've got a bunch of their singing career memorabilia up on the walls.
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Even when you place your order with a café employee, you still wouldn't read it as your local Starbucks in the strip mall down the street. They are 1930's café employees. Smiling and polite ones, too.
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You have to look up on the menu board to figure it out - Oh! They can make my favorite white chocolate mocha here! It's a Starbucks!

But if you don't like Starbucks, or even the taste of coffee, that's cool too. Just skip the whole thing and go get your Fastpass for Radiator Springs Racers and get on with your day.
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I have to admit the theming on that was great. I happened to be there in April of 2012 so I did not get to see this. I still don't drink coffee so I don't know if I would have seen this but the theme design does work well.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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flFigment said:
I have to admit the theming on that was great. I happened to be there in April of 2012 so I did not get to see this. I still don't drink coffee so I don't know if I would have seen this but the theme design does work well.
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Ah, okay. I thought you'd been to DCA more recently. When you were there last April, all of Buena Vista Street was still behind construction walls and you wouldn't have been able to see it. But they really did a fabulous job with the entire Buena Vista Street/Carthay Circle area, including the Starbucks. The entire area is themed beautifully and each location has a wonderful 1930's Los Angeles backstory to it, including the Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café that just happens to serve Starbucks products.

Fun Fact: Disney convinced Starbucks to use the original Starbucks logo from when they started in Seattle in 1971. The logo is based on old Norwegian folktale art about a twin-tailed mermaid. The mermaid logo has been updated and modernized over the decades, but the first Norwegian logo from 1971 is not seen outside of the original Starbucks coffee shop in downtown Seattle. Disney got Starbucks executives to agree to use it at the entry doors of the DCA park location because they felt it themed better to the 1930's setting, and they didn't want the modern corporate logo on the side of the building. It's a medallion made from rubbed bronze, on the side of the brick entryway at the Cafe'.

Rare Starbucks Logo on Buena Vista Street
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I have faith they will do an equally good job with the additional Starbucks locations opening this year on Main Street USA in Disneyland and Magic Kingdom Park, plus the Fountain View location at Epcot.

To be honest, the current "theme" of the Fountain View Ice Cream Hosted by Edy's isn't that great. Aside from the corporate logo, the circa 1995 vibe of the place needs a lot of help.

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They spent a fortune on DCA's Starbucks location. So let's hope they spend a similar amount on updating the Fountain View.
 
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Snowflake82

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flFigment said:
I understand they are a business but it used to be people were happy to open their wallets to the mouse because it was something you could not get anywhere else. Now it seems more and more as if it is the same thing you can get everywhere, just at Disney prices.



I know I would love TDO to bring something that you could only get at Disney sort of like the Honey Lemon Cupcake from the hungry Bear in Disneyland.
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Hmmm, they are replacing Edy's ice cream with Starbucks coffee, both of which you can get just about anywhere.

I've never had a Honey Lemon cupcake - it does sound good, but there are lots of specialty cupcakes available on WDW property.

Didn't this location used to be a coffee/pastry type of place? It makes sense to to have this centrally located and not too far from the main entrance. The only reason I see this as potentially a bad move is the France pavilion is not a very central location if that is supposed to be the main ice cream location for the park.
 
JustJude

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I love Starbucks, love coffee so to have one in the parks will be great HOWEVER I know that the queues will be massive and I just won't bother. I don't queue for coffee, that's ride time wasted ;)
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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it does say starbucks quite large on the outside of the pig cafe - but it's not the big corporate logo. The lettering matches the rest of the exterior of the building.

As others have pointed out.. the Fountain View as it is now is nothing to hold onto...
 
fngoofy

fngoofy

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flFigment said:
Another good thing bites the dust in the paving of more NON-Disney crap coming to the parks. When did Disney stop being innovative, creative and forward thinking and only worry about the MBA mentality of how can we have less of our own product and get more profit so I don’t have to do any work and think of something on my own.



They built a coffee place between Imagination and The Land. There is a coffee place between UOE and WOL building tell me why they need another one right in the middle of Epcot walkway. I believe there is one directly on the left hand side when you walk into World showcase as well. The reason they need another one is Oh yeah so Disney doesn’t have to run it and have anything different than anything else. Seriously if they want to add something then add something stop taking out the stuff that people like and actually add something.



I understand they are a business but it used to be people were happy to open their wallets to the mouse because it was something you could not get anywhere else. Now it seems more and more as if it is the same thing you can get everywhere, just at Disney prices.



I know I would love TDO to bring something that you could only get at Disney sort of like the Honey Lemon Cupcake from the hungry Bear in Disneyland.



I just see this as another way of TDO “Walmarting” Disney World and losing what it is that a lot of truly enjoy about Disney.
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1) Starbucks are in Target
2) The parks have never looked better
3) Don't go all nostalgia on the parks. Disney has made many missteps in the parks over the years and if anything, realize they need to outsource these things to have them run right. Via Nappoli isn't Disney, neither are many of the shops and other restaurants in World Showcase; they also outsource their coaster engineering.
4) If guests want ice cream, they will make sure they get it. Disney is for profit and always has been.
5) I've seen video of the Starbucks they put in DCA and is looks really nice. Anyone heard any complaints about it?
6) Chill
 
71jason

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Tim_4 said:
You're going to the wrong McDonalds. There's another one literally a mile away. Corner of Old Lake Wilson and Osceola-Polk County Line Road.
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That one's no great shakes, but yeah, much faster than the Champions Gate one. (Neither seems to understand the concept of "Christmas break" or "Spring break" in a tourist town, tho.) Also, the Ovation Subway is light years ahead of its Champions Gate counter part. You really need to go the other way on Osceola-Polk.
 
Rob562

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Snowflake82 said:
Didn't this location used to be a coffee/pastry type of place? It makes sense to to have this centrally located and not too far from the main entrance. The only reason I see this as potentially a bad move is the France pavilion is not a very central location if that is supposed to be the main ice cream location for the park.
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You beat me to what I was going to post. This location has only been ice cream for a few years. Before that, it was the "Fountainview Cafe" which served....*gasp*...coffee and baked goods.It was that way as far back as the opening of the Pizza Pasta Piazza, perhaps longer. (Though I don't think that space was original to the park, I think it got added in the plaza re-design of the early 90's)

*That* was actually what I mourned when Edy's moved in. I missed having coffee and a pastry on the patio first thing in the morning, watching the fountain as the early morning crowds rushed by.

And for those who are bemoaning the loss of the ice cream cookie sandwich, there are at least four other places on-property to get them: Main Street Bakery (assuming it'll have it when it reopens) and Sleepy Hollow at MK, Hollywood Scoops at Studios and Dino Bite Snacks at AK. I think they may also be available at Pop Century's food court. (In my opinion, you get the best chance of a soft, fresh cookie at Sleep Hollow, though you're limited to chocolate chip cookies) The only thing you lose at Edy's is a choice of ice cream to put in it.

If there isn't ice cream in the new Fountainview, I wouldn't be surprised if they open up somewhere else in Epcot.

-Rob
 
bethymouse

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I like Starbucks, but it's a shame that a brand name coffee that is so expensive:rolleyes: has to be in the parks! I guess they're hoping it'll bring $$$. We'll see...:eek: I hated Nescafe. I just think it'd be better at the resorts. Starbucks to me doesn't scream DISNEY!:(
Edy's ice cream. No big deal that it's going, but I hope they replace it w/ another ice cream shoppe somewhere in EPCOT.;)
 

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