Disney, in Orlando, works on a business model where you continually raise prices and lower quantity and quality when it comes to most everything, but certainly F&B.
My first example of this personally hitting home came over a decade ago at MK's Columbia Harbor House, which was once a favorite dining locale.
I used to love their turkey sandwich ... quality deli meat piled high on this big roll and served with high quality chips and cole slaw. Yummy! Well, Disney one day decides to cut the cole slaw (why? management at the locale said too many people were throwing it out and I could now buy it for an extra $1.99) at the same time cutting the quality of turkey, cutting the amount used by what seemed like half, and changing both the chips and roll to lower quality versions. Oh, and to top it all off they RAISED the price of the item by about $2 ... and then stuck it on a tiny plate (same as what I see with their burger baskets and the like) so it looks like the plate is running over with way too much food, not that the plate is a third smaller then what it was once served on.
It's a very smarmy, arrogant, screw-the-guest way of doing MAGICal business. And I've seen it across the board ... and to be fair, my example above came years before the DDP started.
That's why I am so amused by the folks here that would never think of driving 2-8 minutes off property and getting better food for less albeit sans the Pixie Dust.
