Sci-Fi dine-in no longer serving handmade milkshakes, premade instead

[Kamikaze]

Im not buying the cost is very different in making a shake vs pre made. Pennies if that. Its going to cost Dis in guests not dining there more than what they may be making up on pre made shakes that lack in taste.

Premix is going to be significantly cheaper. Lower inventory costs, lower overhead for storing the inventory onsite, lower waste.

 

[Lilofan]

Premix is going to be significantly cheaper. Lower inventory costs, lower overhead for storing the inventory onsite, lower waste.

Pre mix / pre prepared is fast food efficiency. Don’t think that the tomatoes are sliced in the open kitchen area of BK. It comes from the warehouse pre sliced. Last thing a BK location needs is a crew member getting hurt slicing tomatoes ( workers comp injury eats into store profits )

 

[easyrowrdw]

I had my first meal at sci-fi the same weekend this article was written. My oreo shake took a while to arrive, came in a glass, and wasn’t hard as a rock so I don’t think I got a premade frozen shake. I didn’t think the shake was very good though so I dunno

 

[John park hopper]

Premix is going to be significantly cheaper. Lower inventory costs, lower overhead for storing the inventory onsite, lower waste.

I would guess lower quality, probable less staff go to the freezer and hand you a premade

 

[tanc]

I mean has anyone been since? Could be that the machine was broken or something that day.

 

[networkpro]

We have pre-made shakes available in our convenance stores. They are stored frozen solid and have a liquification machine and are pretty good.

 

[Pix E. Dust]

I've had these too and they are delicious. But is this what they are talking about? I was picturing something already mixed.

 

[networkpro]

I've had these too and they are delicious. But is this what they are talking about? I was picturing something already mixed.

I believe that the language used is ambiguous. One would assume that it's a prepackaged mixture of set volume and content , not a soft serve mix.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Y’all need to get over yourselves. Kids don’t care how they make milkshakes. They just want something sweet. Eh also understand that Disney is a business and that this is good. They wouldn’t be able to afford to run the restaurant if they had to slowly make each milkshake one at a time. Not to mention the obvious safety issues having so many mixers plugged in.

So, true with that kind of antiquated business model, how could a restaurant expect to stay in business. I mean you would figure it could only run a few months like that before going belly up. So let's see here SciFi opened in.......1991.

 

[Kamikaze]

I would guess lower quality, probable less staff go to the freezer and hand you a premade

Food quality at SciFi is starting pretty low so it’s hard to get it lower.

 

[Jon81uk]

I would guess lower quality, probable less staff go to the freezer and hand you a premade

Does pre-frozen milkshake exist? I would have thought pre-made would be more like McDonald’s where a machine dispenses out ice cream made from a pre-mix soft-serve instead of being blended to order from hard packed ice cream.

 

[Prince-1]

Food quality at SciFi is starting pretty low so it’s hard to get it lower.

And Disney just said challenge accepted.