Garden Grill restaurant permanently immobile? No.

[ABQ]

I hear Spacely Sprockets and Cogswell Coggs are in a bidding war right now to land the supply contract.

Oh no! Now Disney will have to sign a contract as complicated as the Marvel deal, as Jetsons are an intellectual property of Time Warner! The restaurant is doomed!

 

[morningstar]

Weight does have a good bit to do with a gears design. It becomes less of a factor once it is moving, but the gear must be designed to deal with the force of starting and stopping the rotation and the objects mass is an important variable in that equation.

Self-proclaimed rotating restaurant mechanic here. Any amount of force will get any amount of mass moving eventually, if it can at least overcome friction. Friction has to do with weight indirectly, but can be reduced to very little with a good bearing. So even a very low power motor could rotate the restaurant, if you don't start and stop it frequently. If it takes an hour to get up to speed, just start it up an hour before opening.

 

[Master Yoda]

Self-proclaimed rotating restaurant mechanic here. Any amount of force will get any amount of mass moving eventually, if it can at least overcome friction. Friction has to do with weight indirectly, but can be reduced to very little with a good bearing. So even a very low power motor could rotate the restaurant, if you don't start and stop it frequently. If it takes an hour to get up to speed, just start it up an hour before opening.

Correct, if we are just doing it on paper.

 

[Mammymouse]

By the way is the food prep part of the restaurant inside the middle of the restaurant and turns around like the diners do, or is it outside the turning table area?

 

[Master Yoda]

By the way is the food prep part of the restaurant inside the middle of the restaurant and turns around like the diners do, or is it outside the turning table area?

It is stationary.

 

[MaryJaneP]

Is this TDO's way of saying "Sit on it and rotate, not"

I have some guy friends who I am sure are residents of "Tool City".

 

[stevehousse]

I would assume there was a mechanical room under the restaurant to get to the rotating mechanisms and such

 

[Mr DelTaco 1989]

I am standing outside of the garden grill at this very moment and it is indeed rotating right now!

 

[MrNonacho]

Toad is back, restaurant is rotating, Idol is closing... What a time to be alive!

 

[ABQ]

Toad is back, restaurant is rotating, Idol is closing... What a time to be alive!

No kidding. If someone tells me the Yeti is alive and the BAH imploded, I just might believe it today. I thought it was Friday the 13th and a full moon, but are you sure it's not April Fools Day?

 

[stevehousse]

See and everyone was in a tizzy for nothing! LOL glad the restaurant is rotating again!

 

[monothingie]

I am standing outside of the garden grill at this very moment and it is indeed rotating right now!

Yes, but which way?

 

[Marc Gil]

No kidding. If someone tells me the Yeti is alive and the BAH imploded, I just might believe it today. I thought it was Friday the 13th and a full moon, but are you sure it's not April Fools Day?

This post ^

 

[Tom]

Remember when Central Shops could make anything? I guess they're down to making signs and re-painting trash cans now, eh?

 

[stevehousse]

So is anyone else able to confirm that it is indeed rotating?

 

[ninjaprincesst]

So is anyone else able to confirm that it is indeed rotating?

Yep, family members ate there tonight and they rotated.

 

[Cesar R M]

I am standing outside of the garden grill at this very moment and it is indeed rotating right now!

Toad is back, restaurant is rotating, Idol is closing... What a time to be alive!

No kidding. If someone tells me the Yeti is alive and the BAH imploded, I just might believe it today. I thought it was Friday the 13th and a full moon, but are you sure it's not April Fools Day?

good to know they're finally fixing the issues on the parks!
hopefully this will mean a change on TDO's beancounter philosophy and will put some effort in the parks again!

 

[TheMouseFan]

Yep, family members ate there tonight and they rotated.

Yay!!!! Let's just hope that it continues to rotate! We have ressies there next Wed. and I so want it to be rotating!

 

[pug]

It is working today!

 

[BrianV]

Can't be rotating?!?! We've been assured that Disney is so cheap they would rather let it sit broken. Next you'll tell me there are monorail upgrades on the horizon. Crazy world.