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News Harambe Market Refurbishment Planned Ahead of Restaurantosaurus Closure

JohnD

JohnD

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If you believe the Site That Shall Not Be Named, he's saying that the entire menu is changing to burgers and fries.

"BREAKING: Harambe Market Switching to Hamburger & Chicken Nugget Restaurant"

Clickbait as usual.
 
Purduevian

Purduevian

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castlecake2.0 said:
Africa has a few F&B venues, I can see the market becoming chicken nuggets/burgers, and some of the more themed food being distributed to other locations in the land.
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I could be wrong I think Kusafri is the only other QS able to make hot food. (and I don't think its really a full kitchen... just a place to keep tator tots and breakfast sandwiches hot?)
Tamu Tamu is all just ice cream and deserts. Mahindi is just popcorn/Pecans/Chips. Dawa bar is just drinks. Harambe Fruit market is just fruit, hot dogs, pretzels, and chips.

I don't really see any of them being able to mass produce Rice Bowls or Pitas...

Side note... I think there are like 4 places to get spiced up chicken on/with rice in AK.
Harambee market: Chicken Rice Bowl
Satu'li Canteen: Chopped Wood-Grilled Chicken Bowl
Yak & Yeti™ Local Food Cafes: Honey Sesame Chicken
Flame Tree Barbecue: 1/2 Chicken and a side of Rice and Beans
 
cjkeating

cjkeating

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Purduevian said:
I could be wrong I think Kusafri is the only other QS able to make hot food. (and I don't think its really a full kitchen... just a place to keep tator tots and breakfast sandwiches hot?)
Tamu Tamu is all just ice cream and deserts. Mahindi is just popcorn/Pecans/Chips. Dawa bar is just drinks. Harambe Fruit market is just fruit, hot dogs, pretzels, and chips.

I don't really see any of them being able to mass produce Rice Bowls or Pitas...

Side note... I think there are like 4 places to get spiced up chicken on/with rice in AK.
Harambee market: Chicken Rice Bowl
Satu'li Canteen: Chopped Wood-Grilled Chicken Bowl
Yak & Yeti™ Local Food Cafes: Honey Sesame Chicken
Flame Tree Barbecue: 1/2 Chicken and a side of Rice and Beans
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I always saw the current Harambe Market menu as a 'Satu'li support' menu as whilst there were differences the principles were quite similar. I think the Harambe menu will be lost.

For me the bigger question - is Harambe Market now the permanent home of burgers and nuggets at DAK? I'd assume it is.
 
esskay

esskay

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There should be an unwritten rule - you do not add burgers / fries / pizza / mac&cheese and other frozen / microwaved $1 processed crud to your menu in this day and age. It's not even a cost thing at this point, it costs no more for a nicer dish (rice + chicken in some form, noodles + veg + protein, etc).
 
peter11435

peter11435

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esskay said:
There should be an unwritten rule - you do not add burgers / fries / pizza / mac&cheese and other frozen / microwaved $1 processed crud to your menu in this day and age. It's not even a cost thing at this point, it costs no more for a nicer dish (rice + chicken in some form, noodles + veg + protein, etc).
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The problem is that many guests expect those items and won’t eat anything else. This is why every park has them available somewhere.
 
esskay

esskay

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peter11435 said:
The problem is that many guests expect those items and won’t eat anything else. This is why every park has them available somewhere.
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Which is fine, because as we all know theres ample places that already offer that menu in every park and resort. Suggesting a few of them switch to a menu slightly more focused on eating habits of the 21st century isn't exactly a hard ask.

You could switch every quick service across property over to a more modern menu, and still be able to cater to people who only eat burgers and fries fairly easily given the tiny amount of prep space and time it requires.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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esskay said:
Which is fine, because as we all know theres ample places that already offer that menu in every park and resort. Suggesting a few of them switch to a menu slightly more focused on eating habits of the 21st century isn't exactly a hard ask.

You could switch every quick service across property over to a more modern menu, and still be able to cater to people who only eat burgers and fries fairly easily given the tiny amount of prep space and time it requires.
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Many of the quick service locations in the parks do offer more unique menus. There really aren’t ample places to get those items. Generally each park only has one location serving the standard burger and fries. That’s why this change is happening. With restaurantosaurus closing there would be no location at DAK serving burgers and fries.
 
TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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It does seems odd that burgers weren’t just added to the pizzafari menu. That’s a much better location for families to eat (large indoor dining rooms) - and appears to be under utilized.

With the avatar canteen and flame tree in the park - I never really ate at Harambe so it doesn’t matter to me personally.
 
esskay

esskay

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peter11435 said:
With restaurantosaurus closing there would be no location at DAK serving burgers and fries.
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Yak & Yeti Local Food Cafes still does burger & fries. And technically so does flame tree bbq, but granted its a pulled pork burger and fries.
peter11435 said:
Generally each park only has one location serving the standard burger and fries.
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That's just not true, and never has been. Even if we ignore table service and only count quick service and ignore chicken burgers or "sandwiches" that look identical to burgers it's not the case.

MK: Cosmic Rays, Pecos Bills, Tortuga Tavern (pulled pork) - sidenote: WAY too many identical hot dogs at MK's QS locations!

HS: Backlot Express, Rosie's

EP: Connections Eatery, Regal Eagle

TL: Leaning Palms, Typhoon Tilly's (pulled pork)

BB: Lottawatta Lodge, Warming Hut

Getting back on track all I suggested was that we dont need more places adding burgers/pizza/pasta to their menu, there's already ample coverage of that at all the parks, and they could all benefit from some more adventurous or even just unique offerings rather than "heres another burger but its totally different because we used a different blob of sauce than the old one".

If the concern was AK didn't have enough cheap crap food available then they could just double down on the junk they have over at pizzafari as being the worst QS on property seems to be the whole purpose of that place.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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esskay said:
Yak & Yeti Local Food Cafes still does burger & fries. And technically so does flame tree bbq, but granted its a pulled pork burger and fries.

That's just not true, and never has been. Even if we ignore table service and only count quick service and ignore chicken burgers or "sandwiches" that look identical to burgers it's not the case.

MK: Cosmic Rays, Pecos Bills, Tortuga Tavern (pulled pork) - sidenote: WAY too many identical hot dogs at MK's QS locations!

HS: Backlot Express, Rosie's

EP: Connections Eatery, Regal Eagle

TL: Leaning Palms, Typhoon Tilly's (pulled pork)

BB: Lottawatta Lodge, Warming Hut

Getting back on track all I suggested was that we dont need more places adding burgers/pizza/pasta to their menu, there's already ample coverage of that at all the parks, and they could all benefit from some more adventurous or even just unique offerings rather than "heres another burger but its totally different because we used a different blob of sauce than the old one".

If the concern was AK didn't have enough cheap crap food available then they could just double down on the junk they have over at pizzafari as being the worst QS on property seems to be the whole purpose of that place.
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Having a single specialty burger on the menu does not make it a burger and fries restaurant. Regal eagle, Pecos Bills, Local Food Cafes have unique menus that don’t qualify to fit that need. Like it or not there is a demand for this type of menu and those establishments alone do not satisfy that demand. Most quick service locations in the parks have unique menus that are not just burgers and fries.

This change at DAK is not a case of more places adding these items to their menus. The parks primary venue serving those items is closing so those items are being moved to meet existing demand. If you don’t want those items you can continue to dine at any of the other quick service restaurants around the park.
 
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Touchdown

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These are parks that cater to children and practically every child goes through a phase where the only thing they eat is mac and cheese, tenders and hot dogs. This phase can last a long time (and some never leave it.) They should be catered to too. Plus sometimes you just want some comfort food, I’ll never use it at AK (Avatar protein bowl for me) but i recognize I’m not the only person there.
 
castlecake2.0

castlecake2.0

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TrainsOfDisney said:
It does seems odd that burgers weren’t just added to the pizzafari menu. That’s a much better location for families to eat (large indoor dining rooms) - and appears to be under utilized.

With the avatar canteen and flame tree in the park - I never really ate at Harambe so it doesn’t matter to me personally.
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I could be wrong but I think the reason is harambe has fryers and pizzafari does not
 

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