The message you are referring to specifically says it’s baked at the “WDW bakery” which is a giant commercial facility that produces baked goods for all of Walt Disney World. Disney chooses how much to make and could chose to make more.
It’s not an all you can eat meal. It’s a family style meal, and there are certain things you can ask for seconds. That’s an unadvertised nice bonus, not something to be demanded or taken advantage of.
I feel that bread and butter continue to be served complimentary at meals the guests will enjoy their meal at a more longer slower pace. If the dining room wants to turn the tables over quicker for the incoming waiting guests with reservations and or without it generates more sales for the restaurant. Guests in WDW like ourselves have tight schedules and time is of the essence.
As a guest, I tend to view "getting rushed through an expensive meal" as a negative.
I have no issue with that as long as I don’t have scheduled places to be after the non rushed meal. Who knows if ex CFO Christine words were heeded - to cut portion sizes and guests overweight public comment.
If we are in a hurry and have somewhere to be, we just let the server know (and ask for the check the second our entrees hit the table). It seems to be far easier to get a server to go a little faster, than it is to have them slow down, but maybe that's just us.
I’m sorry my question and decision to skip the meal have made you so upset.
I haven’t demanded anything. I simply asked if they were limiting bread and decided we don’t want to dine there since they do limit and my kids’ favorite part of the meal was the salad and bread. I do think it’s silly for Disney to limit bread during a family style dinner.
A good place to eat after a long day of driving on I-95.
For every guest who doesn’t want to feel ‘rushed’ and takes their time, there is a guest who is waiting longer to get seated for their ADR. The financial model of every restaurant, no matter where it is assumes an average time to ‘turn the table’, and if they take reservations the number of reservations they take is based on that capacity model. If everyone wants to spend longer at their table, fewer people get to dine per hour, fewer reservations are available and the restaurants revenue is reduced.
Please show me where this says ‘all you can eat’.
Yes. That's how it works. But are we really arguing that giving a couple extra rolls to the OP's family -- or anyone's -- is going to cause a domino effect that leads to appreciable losses for the restaurant? Of course the restaurant is not under any obligation to give more 12-cent rolls than the menu strictly promises just because someone's child only wants to eat bread instead of more expensive meal components, but I stand by my opinion that refusing is an unbecomingly stingy thing to do, especially for an eatery where the price-per-adult was raised by about a third ($29 to $38) last year.
Disney doesn't use the phrase "all you can eat," but Sebastian's _was_ all-you-care-to-enjoy at least as recently as 2023, with dozens of reviewers (including well-known sources like the Disney Tourist Blog, , playDisney, Kenny the Pirate, Disney Food Blog, etc.) noting and confirming that fact. Specifically, you could order seconds of anything you wanted except for the coconut shrimp, which was an upcharge. If that has changed, the change was not announced and hasn't been widely reported. It may no longer technically be the case that it's all-you-care-to-enjoy, but it's not a stretch for guests who've visited in the past, or read/heard reviews from those who have, to reasonably think that the meal is the same as it was last year and every year before.
It's actually not as it's not advertised as such.
If it’s something so small then it shouldn’t be a problem to do.
If a restaurant is rushing people then their model is the issue and they are overbooking.
And in the era of the Internet, every single 'small' item gets spread around as something you can get 'free' and then it gets abused. The number of things that have gone away at WDW over the years because of this pattern can't be counted any longer.
It's a balancing act every restaurant throughout the world has to deal with. If they reduce the number of times a table is turned during a night, their labor costs don't go down so the prices then have to go up to offset that. The servers have fewer checks, so the tips they earn are reduced and as a result, the good servers move on to other more lucratice locations. With fewer table turns, their total revenue each night declines. If they lower the number of turns of the table, fewer people can get a reservation in the restaurant every night so people get upset they can never get into a restaurant they enjoy.
Utter nonsense. More bread isn’t something that was unique to Disney. If Olive Garden can handle it then so can Disney.
It’s a balancing act with airlines who oversell their flights but we don’t just tell people “Too bad, that’s business” when they get bumped from a flight. It’s something the business is responsible for handling, the business, not the customer.
