New Counter Service Seating Program Trials
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From: rct on 6 Oct 2009 16:23 Might also be a step towards doing something about the Sleepers. We've all seen them, we all know they exist, it isn't right for someone to take a party of 8 into a sit down, split a soda, and have Timmy get his noontime nap while the rest of the family chex their texts. It ain't right. Them places is fer vittles. rct
From: BigBob on 6 Oct 2009 19:46 This whole thing is a farce, trying ridiculous ways to deal with a problem entirely of their own making! The ONLY point to this nonsense is to increase profits on the bottom- line. By now this should be obvious to all. If Disney actually cared about the guest experience, they would not have been systematically not operating counter-service venues, and reducing staff and hours for a good 5+ years now. Want to try reducing congestion, how about utilizing the existing capacity you already have! Try opening the Tomorrowland Terrace Noodle Station and El Pirata y el Perico Restaurante once-in-a-while. Try operating the Columbia Harbour House and all three counters at Cosmic Ray's until park closing. Aunt Polly's is... gone. In October, when I was there twice (five days total), Pecos Bill was even being closed "one hour before park closing." If you keep closing and/or not operating capacity you have, and reducing the staff and operating hours at those venues you deign to operate, you get exactly the unacceptable dining situation we now have in the Magic Kingdom. Rather than ease the over-crowding by improving capacity and/or extending operating hours, Disney comes up with yet another money- grubbing scheme to try to wring yet more profits out of a very dry stone. They no longer have any sense of shame, as they spin this as doing something for the guests. It's time we start calling bullshit. What's next, making reservations for counter-service? BULLSHIT!
From: Patty Winter on 6 Oct 2009 19:56 In article <96ccb62e-043c-4394-9037-ec0d640e2f8c(a)a6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, BigBob <BigBobxxx(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: >This whole thing is a farce, trying ridiculous ways to deal with a >problem entirely of their own making! What is ridiculous about not letting people camp out at tables? >Want to try reducing congestion, how about utilizing the existing >capacity you already have! That's a good idea, but even if all the counter service locations were open, there would still be congested times, and people would still hold down seats for 10-15 minutes before they actually need them. Patty
From: Ginny Favers on 6 Oct 2009 21:06 Patty Winter wrote: > In article <96ccb62e-043c-4394-9037-ec0d640e2f8c(a)a6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, > BigBob <BigBobxxx(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: >> This whole thing is a farce, trying ridiculous ways to deal with a >> problem entirely of their own making! > > What is ridiculous about not letting people camp out at tables? > >> Want to try reducing congestion, how about utilizing the existing >> capacity you already have! > > That's a good idea, but even if all the counter service locations > were open, there would still be congested times, and people would > still hold down seats for 10-15 minutes before they actually need > them. > > > Patty > Are we having no mercy on hot, tired people who just need to sit the heck down in some air conditioning for a few minutes? Really? ~Amanda
From: Patty Winter on 6 Oct 2009 21:20
In article <hagpjh$8ug$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Ginny Favers <ginnyfavers(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Patty Winter wrote: [extraneous quotage removed] >> even if all the counter service locations >> were open, there would still be congested times, and people would >> still hold down seats for 10-15 minutes before they actually need >> them. > >Are we having no mercy on hot, tired people who just need to sit the >heck down in some air conditioning for a few minutes? Really? Not when there are paying customers trying to find a table. Where would you propose that those people eat their meals? Patty |