Fountain View Ice Cream closing in early April for Starbucks conversion

[MaryJaneP]

Cant wait till we get McDonalds back into the parks!

What is the possibility of McDonald's sponsoring Imagination. Color Scheme is LOUD. Plushies and food seem like ideal sales opportunities. Could add characters to story (Hamburglar stole Figment's spark). EO could be "restaurant" and, as mentioned elsewhere, could have rooftop eat/view for Illuminations.

 

[TP2000]

5) I've seen video of the Starbucks they put in DCA and is looks really nice. Anyone heard any complaints about it?

The only complaint about the DCA Starbucks is that the place is mobbed every morning and the lines are long. It gets mobbed again in the afternoon after the parade, and in the evening, after dinner when folks are heading to World of Color.

Imagine that? Disney offering products and services in their parks that a majority of guests actually want?

 

[PhotoDave219]

I agree there won't be a giant Starbucks logo, but it will likely say Starbucks somewhere on the building.

You really are one of those picky (Jon Snow!) in life, arent you......

 

[Ariel484]

Well the crap they've been serving for years is certainly unique to WDW. Can't get a worse cup of coffee anywhere else. Seriously, whether or not someone hates Starbucks, ANYTHING is better than Nescafe (to be more specific, the way WDW prepares Nescafe)

Seriously. People have complained about the coffee at WDW for years, and now they are improving it. Thumbs up from me.

Reading this thread is giving me a huge sense of déjà vu after the mess that the MK thread became...

 

[MarkTwain]

I'm going to miss picking up ice cream with friends on the way into or out of work at Epcot on hot days (although I won't miss blowing $4 of every day's pay check on ice cream). That said, it seemed like whenever I was in there, there was never much of a crowd, so with any luck Starbucks will bring a little vitality back to the place. Hopefully there will be someplace else to ice cream in the near future (world), without having to hoof it all the way to France.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

I'm actually really excited for the Fountainview Starbucks, because I want to see where they go theming- and costume-wise. DCA, MSUSA, and DHS I think are kinda low-hanging fruit thematically speaking. I think we all kinda had an idea what they would/will look like before they even opened, because the lands that they are in/will be in have set, familiar "brands". Future World, however, is not static; the look of Future World is always open to reinterpretation over the years, so we'll get to see what WDI thinks Innoventions Plaza should look like in 2013. Hopefully the Starbucks people also take the opportunity to stretch their creative muscles and push their brand a few years into the future. Could be fun.

 

[FettFan]

Will they just be selling Starbucks coffee alongside the ice cream, or are they gutting it altogether to make a full Starbucks?

Because I'm really going to miss the root beer floats.

 

[NiarrNDisney]

Good question!

What I would like to know is why the Mouse even brought Starbucks in when Joffery's will be putting all of their coffee in the other places that used to serve Nescafe.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Will they just be selling Starbucks coffee alongside the ice cream, or are they gutting it altogether to make a full Starbucks?

Because I'm really going to miss the root beer floats.

No earthly idea. Im gonna leave speculation alone here

 

[TP2000]

I'm actually really excited for the Fountainview Starbucks, because I want to see where they go theming- and costume-wise. DCA, MSUSA, and DHS I think are kinda low-hanging fruit thematically speaking.

What a brilliant point! I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are right. This should be fascinating to see how they handle the theme; the décor, the uniforms, the signage, the palette, everything. If they phone it in for Epcot and just do contemporary Starbucks, that will be a missed opportunity in a huge way.

 

[Susan Savia]

It saddened me when Fountain View stopped serving milkshakes a few years ago!

 

[raven]

I'm really interested to see how look and feel of this particular Starbucks will be. They can't go with the mellow and dark tones of your typcial Starbucks given this location in Epcot. I hope they do something unique, dare I say, futuristic.

Blue hues will be used.

 

[bethymouse]

I would say no more ice cream.

 

[Master Yoda]

We will not know until Disney tells us. Unlike the Main St Bakery where we had some details and an example to follow, we are completely in the dark on Fountain view.

 

[epcotisbest]

If they keep ice cream we will continue to be regulars. If it goes to full blown Starbucks, we will ignore it just like we ignore all the 1000s of other Starbucks out there. I may the only person left who has never had a Starbucks coffee. To me it is kinda like Subway...they are all over the place, nothing special about them so I don't understand the need for them being in our special place.

 

[Wisconsin]

Nothing against Starbucks, but I'd like it better if it was still FountainView that happened to serve Starbucks, rather than a full blown Starbacks store with their green sign inside WDW.

 

[BoarderPhreak]

Supposedly the offerings (aside from coffee/drinks obviously) at MK will remain mostly the same, so maybe there's hope for EC.

 

[epcotisbest]

Supposedly the offerings (aside from coffee/drinks obviously) at MK will remain mostly the same, so maybe there's hope for EC.

We can certainly hope.

 

[Goofyernmost]

If they keep ice cream we will continue to be regulars. If it goes to full blown Starbucks, we will ignore it just like we ignore all the 1000s of other Starbucks out there. I may the only person left who has never had a Starbucks coffee. To me it is kinda like Subway...they are all over the place, nothing special about them so I don't understand the need for them being in our special place.

I guess I can see what you're saying, but I cannot honestly understand what possible difference it would make if they served Starbucks or Maxwell House or any of the other thousands of brands in existence. Disney doesn't manufacture coffee. Disney doesn't manufacture Coke products. Disney doesn't manufacture Edy's Ice Cream. Disney doesn't manufacture hamburgers or french fries or chicken fingers. Disney runs a theme park. In that theme park are a large conglomerate of human beings that occasionally take a break from fantasy and eat and drink stuff to sustain life. Do they need a specific brand of coffee? No, probably not. But Nescafe isn't exactly an unknown brand either, so which one would one choose to be sold there?

BTW, I don't drink Starbucks either, in fact, I don't drink coffee but I know a lot of people do so why should I care. As I stated in another Starbucks/Fountain View thread, so far they have shown that all they did was remodel, improve and plus, the places to accommodate Starbucks, whom I am sure are kicking in a lot of cash for the privilege of selling coffee there, other than that nothing has changed about the places. Why should we think that this is going to happen now? No big green signs have shown up anyplace, and it isn't likely that they will now.

 

[epcotisbest]

I guess I can see what you're saying, but I cannot honestly understand what possible difference it would make if they served Starbucks or Maxwell House or any of the other thousands of brands in existence. Disney doesn't manufacture coffee. Disney doesn't manufacture Coke products. Disney doesn't manufacture Edy's Ice Cream. Disney doesn't manufacture hamburgers or french fries or chicken fingers. Disney runs a theme park. In that theme park are a large conglomerate of human beings that occasionally take a break from fantasy and eat and drink stuff to sustain life. Do they need a specific brand of coffee? No, probably not. But Nescafe isn't exactly an unknown brand either, so which one would one choose to be sold there?

BTW, I don't drink Starbucks either, in fact, I don't drink coffee but I know a lot of people do so why should I care. As I stated in another Starbucks/Fountain View thread, so far they have shown that all they did was remodel, improve and plus, the places to accommodate Starbucks, whom I am sure are kicking in a lot of cash for the privilege of selling coffee there, other than that nothing has changed about the places. Why should we think that this is going to happen now? No big green signs have shown up anyplace, and it isn't likely that they will now.

I think the fear is the big green signs and WDW becoming more like the outside world. At least it is for me. Imagine walking down Main Street or around Innoventions and having the choice of Starbucks, McDonalds, Burger Kings, Hooters, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse, TGIFridays, KFC and more, then stopping in to Macy's, Kohl's, WalMart, Sears, Target, Home Depot, Lowes and more, without ever having to leave MK or Epcot. Disney does manufacture magic, and I fear it being diluted.