Why Disneyland will have plant-based offerings at table and quick service restaurant by spring 2020 - OCR/SCNG

[Darkbeer1]

Why Disneyland will have plant-based offerings at table and quick service restaurants by spring 2020

Ice cream and corn dogs are here to stay but Disneyland will be offering a plant-based option on menu by next year.

www.ocregister.com

>>At a table set with linen napkins, sparkling stemware and place cards the menu reads, “Dinner in The Wine Country.” The evening begins with a bountiful bread basket and continues with a four-course tasting menu paired with California wines.

It’s everything a diner might expect from Napa Rose at the Grand Californian in the Disneyland Resort: pressed watermelon salad with black garlic vinaigrette, paella, Chocolate Bliss cake and the granddaddy of all California chardonnays — Chateau Montelena.

But that’s not the stunner.

All the items served, including a parade of appetizers from Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and the resort’s banquet menu, are entirely plant-based.

And here’s the real wow, it’s not just for upscale diners with special dietary needs. A new food and beverage program with choices for those who eschew meat, dairy, eggs and honey will roll out on Oct. 1 (major quick service eateries) and Oct. 3 (table service restaurants) at Walt Disney World Resort. It’s coming in spring 2020 to the Disneyland Resort where there are 26 table service and 112 quick service restaurants as well as 23 nightclubs, lounges and outdoor bars.

“We do a lot of work to bring more flavor, innovation and creativity to our menus; our menus change all the time. And one of the key things that drives that is the feedback from the guests,” said Cheryl Dolven, a manager in Health & Wellness, Food & Beverage at Walt Disney World Resort, addressing guests at the dinner on Sept. 17. “Our guests have enthusiastically embraced all the plant-based dishes that we have across property today. And it’s really inspired us to add even more.”<<

>>Disney has pledged that one or more “plant-based” items will appear on the menus of all table service and all major quick service restaurants throughout the parks. Those items will be tagged with a green leaf icon and a description saying that those dishes are prepared “without animal meat, dairy, eggs or honey. “

With this designation Disney is pushing beyond meatless and even beyond vegetarian into the realm of veganism. But that term will not be used. These dishes, prepared with fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and popular name-brand meat substitutes will merely be labeled “plant-based.”<<

 

[Phroobar]

What I find amazing there are 26 table service and 112 quick service restaurants and 23 nightclubs/lounges/bars at the Disneyland resort. Doesn't that seem a tad overkill?

 

[Darkbeer1]

What I find amazing there are 26 table service and 112 quick service restaurants and 23 nightclubs/lounges/bars at the Disneyland resort. Doesn't that seem a tad overkill?

Well, you have 2 Theme Parks, 3 Hotels and a Shoppertaintment Mall.

Are they counting the Churro Carts at DtD, or maybe the Food Trucks.....

 

[Phroobar]

The Disneyland Resort where you are never more than ten feet from food, shopping or a trash can.

 

[Darkbeer1]

The Disneyland Resort where you are never more than ten feet from food, shopping or a trash can.

Unless you take the Magic Way Bridge Pathway, or where you park. (The amount of trash cans are limited outside the secure area for safety reasons)

 

[ProjectXBlog]

very exciting! plant-based proteins/foods are delicious and i always appreciate more vegetarian offerings at the parks. i’m sure the pricing will be absolutely obscene though

 

[FerretAfros]

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[Phroobar]

Google is watching you.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

i’m sure the pricing will be absolutely obscene though

You don't say...

 

[SevenSevens]

I had the vegetarian meatloaf in whatever the quick service place in GE is, my wife couldn't believe it wasn't meat.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Vegetarian Meatloaf?

One of my many issues with veganism/vegetarianism is people modeling the food on meat.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Vegetarian Meatloaf?

One of my many issues with veganism/vegetarianism is people modeling the food on meat.

Not just meat, but other foods as well, like eggs.

 

[SevenSevens]

Not everyone is going vegetarian/vegan due to animal rights issues. Some, like my wife, have a food intolerance to a protein found in red meat. She's got nothing against eating a cow, it just makes her vomit uncontrollably, even in small quantities. Others are doing it for environmental reasons. It takes an awful lot of water and feed to raise a cow.

Stuff like the Impossible Burger, when cooked right, is near impossible to tell from a regular ground beef pattie. It just needs to become cheaper than ground beef and I'll switch.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I'll have to take your word for that. The only meat I've ever consumed in my life is chicken and Gremlins really turned me off to it in addition to already finding it unappetizing. Let's not talk about the steak (?) in Poltergeist.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Vegetarian Meatloaf?

One of my many issues with veganism/vegetarianism is people modeling the food on meat.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I don't win friends regardless. I'll take the salad.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Unless it is a big salad not interested because pork chops taste good, bacon tastes good.

 

[truecoat]

What I find amazing there are 26 table service and 112 quick service restaurants and 23 nightclubs/lounges/bars at the Disneyland resort. Doesn't that seem a tad overkill?

And there are lines at all of them....except Ronto's Roasters.

 

[DanielBB8]

No. With how blue and green milk was turned into this fruity oily mixture with rice/coconut juice, their attempt at vegan will fail. Or maybe enough will buy it and dump it. Disney still makes its money off suckers.