Starbucks in Downtown Disney

[wdwmagic]

Starbucks will be opening two locations in Downtown Disney this winter. One will be near the west entrance to World of Disney, and the other is a kiosk.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

The horror!

 

[lego606]

Eisner would never have wanted this!

 

[ImagineerDude]

I don't understand the big deal? "Disneyland will never be completed" Walt Disney said so himself. Though it is not very imaginative I'd rather have Starbucks than McDonalds or Pizza Hut popping up every corner around the Parks...

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

I just don't see how a Starbucks, no matter how nicely designed, can fit into a 2001 strip mall themed to be a 2001 strip mall. Won't it ruin the illusion of being in a 2001 strip mall? I just don't think Walt would have wanted it this way. He would have planted coffee trees out back behind Frontierland and made the coffee himself, because that's the magical way to do it.

And what about the crepe cart?! Are they going to take away my crepes?! I'm going to start a petition, those crepes are the only thing that get me out of bed each day, even if they're $10 each.

 

[fbp]

Why do they charge extra for soy milk?

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Why do they charge extra for soy milk?

Walt never would have charged extra for soy milk! He would have just given it to you while muttering something about pinko commies under his breath.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Build a Coffee Bean, instead! Way better than Starbucks.

 

[fbp]

Build a Coffee Bean, instead! Way better than Starbucks.

The coffee bean building lab near my apartment closed down.

 

[Californian Elitist]

The coffee bean building lab near my apartment closed down.

That sucks. Good thing there are plenty of them in CA.

 

[fbp]

Ah, so Build a Coffee Bean is a real thing.

 

[Master Yoda]

Why do they charge extra for soy milk?

I would assume that it has something to do with soy milk being around twice the price of whole milk.

 

[fbp]

I would assume that it has something to do with soy milk being around twice the price of whole milk.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Just don't get the skinny mocha! I ordered that from a local Starbucks a couple weeks ago and I now know why they call it a skinny, it was so bad I could only drink a couple sips. Next time full fat mocha for me!

 

[lego606]

I would assume that it has something to do with soy milk being around twice the price of whole milk.

That's just what they want you to think, like the contract with Universal! The truth will come out soon, you'll see!

 

[tare]

Build a Coffee Bean, instead! Way better than Starbucks.

I am sick of hearing about Starbucks. It's really too bad disney has brought them to both wdw and dl. Yuck.

 

[TP2000]

The main Starbucks is going into the space formerly used by Blink, across from the parking lot tram loading area.

 

[TP2000]

And with that, I'm reminded of how nice this would have been to have several years ago on what would be the last time I ever pay for "Concierge" level service at Disney's American hotels.

It was an off-season weekday and I was staying at the Grand Californian with out of town family. The kids all went to the park at opening, but I got a late start. I wandered into the Concierge Lounge at the GCH in late morning looking for a cup of coffee and a Danish or something. The perky-perky hostess staffing the lounge, theoretically calling herself the "concierge" but really having no trained concierge skills over coffee-making and saying perky things, told me with a cute frowny face that the last of the coffee was gone and she had bottles of water and dry cookies to offer instead. I met her cute frowny face with a more legit frown of my own and asked where a person could get coffee, and she stumbled for thoughts and then said "Well, you could probably get coffee inside the park on Main Street". BZZZZT! Wrong answer.

A real concierge wouldn't have let the coffee urn go dry, but if it did and a paying guest walked in looking for coffee the right answer would have been "Sit down and here's the morning issue of the Times, I will call room service to bring up a fresh pot in just a few minutes. I'm so sorry for the delay."

But that wasn't within her training parameters. Disney had trained her that she can get away with thinking inside the box and not offering truly concierge-level service by being perky and smiling a lot. It takes more than that, and real 4 Star hotels train their employees the right way. And it's why the "Concierge" level rooms at Disney's American hotels are a joke and offer nothing more than a perky hostess sitting at a desk who can tell you what time the 3 O'Clock parade starts or call the public reservation line for you to be told the Blue Bayou is already booked for dinner. Things you can all do yourself. And now that there's a Starbucks just outside the hotel, you can get your own coffee too.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

Why do they charge extra for soy milk?

I would assume that it has something to do with soy milk being around twice the price of whole milk.

It's a lot harder to milk the soy cows.

 

[Mickey_777]

I like Starbucks as much as the next guy but this seems like a bit much. That's a lot of green mermaid for such a small area...