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Main Street Bakery to Serve Starbucks Coffee
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The Empress Lilly
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We were always going to have a licensed Starbucks on Main Street. We were not promised a MSB serving Sbux coffee. The title of this thread was simply changed midway to the very misleading 'Bakery to Serve Starbucks Coffee', replacing the more correct original title. Or, 'MSB To Be Turned Into a Licensed Starbucks Store'.
Licensed Starbuckses are common. In fact, one in three Starbuckses is licensed. Ten thousand of them. The ones you find in airports, hospitals, shops, universities. And at UNI theme parks. And now at Disney Parkstm too. Hurrah for uniformity and monotony.
The Empress Lilly
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Actually, that's a good point. The old MSB had entirely insufficent seating.
Although I don't see how the solution was to further reduce seating.
The - or 'a' - solution was to increase seating at the Bakery, and develop a killer coffee shop in the Tomorrowland Terrace, to cater to today's guest demands for coffee shops.
Animaniac93-98
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A poor argument. I'm pretty sure a wide variety of food and beverage served in WDW could be criticized for this same reason. I'm also sure I could find better food within a one mile radius of my house than in a WDW theme park. I expect in-park food to be good, not amazing, yet many Disney produced items are not. I don't see how Starbucks is worse.
The Empress Lilly
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@emich88, is this true? Did the Cast Members revolt and leave over the MSB being turned into a Starbucks?
The bakery transformation was originally slated to re-open in May of this year; however, that didn’t happen. Only a month behind schedule, Starbucks has officially taken over the bakery. In the transition, Disney re-created this location and hand-pick their opening team of Cast Members just as they did for the new Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland. Sadly, even with a bump in pay, many of the long-term bakery Cast Members didn’t wish to stay. In fact, rumor has it that it was quite difficult to staff this location.
The bakery transformation was originally slated to re-open in May of this year; however, that didn’t happen. Only a month behind schedule, Starbucks has officially taken over the bakery. In the transition, Disney re-created this location and hand-pick their opening team of Cast Members just as they did for the new Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland. Sadly, even with a bump in pay, many of the long-term bakery Cast Members didn’t wish to stay. In fact, rumor has it that it was quite difficult to staff this location.
Yes this is pretty much true. Majority of the original bakery cast was suppose to return, those who did quit during training... long story short. We do have a few original MSB cast, but they are mostly new.
Also, Disney originally only wanted to hire internally for this location. But not a lot of cast members applied, so they opened it up to new hires. So we have a nice mixture of people.
Well will indeed sell co-branded merchandise... maybe next year. I heard there is some legal issues that need to be sorted out. But they are coming!
Yes we get cast discounts on whole bean coffee bags and packaged VIA. I believe it's the normal 20% F&B discount, but don't quote me on that. But you do get a discount
nytimez
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Item I can get anywhere outside WDW = Starbucks coffee.
Item I can't get outside WDW/Disney Parks = MSUSA Ciniman Roll.
What exactly again was keeping them from just adding Starbucks coffee to the menu instead of Nescafé?
PhotoDave219
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My photos (diff site) or the photos on this site? Because it looks pretty good to me?
prfctlyximprct
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Not a coffee drinker, but I miss my Mcdonald's fries... hey mickey dee's i'm looking at you 
Bryner84
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Ok, so when this was announced I was firmly in the don't touch my MSB camp. Then a slew of people came in saying, "be reasonable, this will be well themed and will still be your MSB, just serving better coffee now!". I said ok, and I largely ignored the issue...and now here we are. The day has come when we get to see how our beloved bakery has fared, and you reasonable people were liars! It's a freaking Starbucks people! Reasonable people be darned....here's to continuing to be unreasonable!
Californian Elitist
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I can definitely get the same soda brands outside of Disney. For cheaper, too. I can also get Dreyer's ice cream and Dole pineapples outside of Disney as well.
Animaniac93-98
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That's because most rolls of that type sold outside of WDW are better. Cinnabon kills all others in this regard.
I'm not sure when this religious type of worship for this roll started, but I sure could have used some of it when Disney themselves cut down on the number of breakfast offerings at the bakery by dropping my favourite French Toast Loaf.
Really there isn't much more to this story haha... More of our internal casts dropped during training than our new cast did. The reason is because most of the internal thought this would be a simple job like most other Disney jobs. But it's not. There is a lot of information to know and a lot of training that goes into this. We went through the actual starbucks training which had stuffed added to by Disney.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
Which do you think matters more in the long run? Rabid fans of the parks, or Moms who went back home complaining they couldn't even get their daily Starbucks?
I don't like what was done, but I was never a fan of the Bakery (at least the most recent version of it)...I miss the OLD Main Street, and it was something I think Disneyland has done better than MK.
At least they have a Penny Arcade still. Granted, it's all one big shop like Emporium is, but they at least kept a few games in the front of the shop. At MK, they didn't even try.
I don't like what was done, but I was never a fan of the Bakery (at least the most recent version of it)...I miss the OLD Main Street, and it was something I think Disneyland has done better than MK.
At least they have a Penny Arcade still. Granted, it's all one big shop like Emporium is, but they at least kept a few games in the front of the shop. At MK, they didn't even try.
Animaniac93-98
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Disney should make its own line of bottled water and theme it too The Little Mermaid. It would be MAGICAL.
And then charge $20 for the special limited 20K edition.
Californian Elitist
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PhotoDave219
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Not a coffee drinker, but I miss my Mcdonald's fries... hey mickey dee's i'm looking at you
You need the wayback machine with Mister Peabody and his boy Sherman because those days are long gone....
articos
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I think there's a disconnect in communication here. You're referring to only the coffee product as dramatically improved, which is absolutely true. And it's absolutely true that having SB in the park will add a delicious coffee beverage that many, many people love. What the rest are saying - me included - is that it's not just about the coffee. It's the Main Street Bakery, a space that hearkens back to opening, and is ingrained in the memory of everyone who went to the Magic Kingdom as a kid, teen or adult in the 70s-90s. It's about the design, the location's history and the "bakery" aspect that has been lost to a very homogenized new space that's very similar to any normal Starbucks or franchised design anywhere in the country. We are bemoaning the loss of a space that was somewhat unique into something that's everywhere else outside the MK. The Bakery redo is nice enough, but it's not unique or special any longer, as I mentioned earlier in the thread. I think there's a large contingent who were hoping for an update of the space the way it was, or at least an update that included the feel of Main Street, which this does not have, utilizing Starbucks fixtures, not trying to mask the registers, etc. The materials used/design doesn't feel like Disney. It feels like simply a nice Starbucks on MSUSA, when it should have been just the Starbucks product incorporated into Disney's look and feel. Get what I mean?
It's the difference between the Ice Cream Parlor interior and this new interior. Massive difference in detail and theming.