New Enhancements, Dining Options Coming to Disney’s BoardWalk

[lazyboy97o]

They stopped selling whole pizzas because they were routinely hitting one hour waits and just couldn’t keep up, which seems to have happened after Covid when the little QSR stands and ESPN didn’t come back. Good example of how cutting things in one place has a negative consequence elsewhere.

I remain perplexed as to why theme parks have so much trouble scaling up pizza. Small pizzerias, particularly those that do focus on slices, can be small places that move people. Part of it is just having a bunch of cheese pies prepped and ready to just reheat with the selected toppings. If someone orders a whole pie you can grab one of those and throw it in too. Instead, parks seem stuck on trying to bake pies on a more as needed basis.

 

[UNCgolf]

I remain perplexed as to why theme parks have so much trouble scaling up pizza. Small pizzerias, particularly those that do focus on slices, can be small places that move people. Part of it is just having a bunch of cheese pies prepped and ready to just reheat with the selected toppings. If someone orders a whole pie you can grab one of those and throw it in too. Instead, parks seem stuck on trying to bake pies on a more as needed basis.

It is strange. A freshly baked pizza is significantly better than a reheated slice, but it's a theme park -- people aren't expecting high quality fresh pizza anyways, especially at something like a pizza window.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It is strange. A freshly baked pizza is significantly better than a reheated slice, but it's a theme park -- people aren't expecting high quality fresh pizza anyways, especially at something like a pizza window.

Nah, there are plenty of places that do high quality slices. The big thing is to not fully bake the prep pies so the slices don’t end up overdone.

 

[UNCgolf]

Nah, there are plenty of places that do high quality slices. The big thing is to not fully bake the prep pies so the slices don’t end up overdone.

It's personal preference, I suppose. I've never had a slice that was even remotely as good as a quality freshly baked pie.

It's also partially a NY style thing, though, which is admittedly not my favorite type of pizza (nothing beats a high quality Neapolitan pizza, and I also prefer thin crust/tavern to NY hand-tossed). It's definitely the best style for just getting a slice, though, even though I still think a full freshly baked NY style pizza is still better than an individual slice.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

It's personal preference, I suppose. I've never had a slice that was even remotely as good as a quality freshly baked pie.

It's also partially a NY style thing, though, which is admittedly not my favorite type of pizza. It's definitely the best style for just getting a slice, although I still think freshly baked ones are better than slices.

Yes, definitely a NYC thing - but I’ve had some insanely good re-heat slices in nyc. And some average ones too of course.

Actually what they should do at the boardwalk when they reopen a restaurant at the old big river space they should convert the entire old Spoodles restaurant into counter service pizza and bakery.

They could keep the window for quick by the slice purchases but then go inside and get full pizzas with any number of toppings, salads, etc.