As someone that worked in FL, it's considered an employer-friendly state. In CA, the employer has to provide proof of termination. In Florida that proof is squarely on the employee. If you're working as waitstaff, are you going to be able to afford a decent attorney to prove you were illegally fired?
Re: prices not being much different. The price of a place serving essentially grilled cheese and other sandwiches or chicken piccata should not be similar to a steak house in my opinion. $49 crab cakes at cake bake shop is wild to me.
Good points. Hey, we all go where we prefer right? I’m glad you see positives in it where I can’t see them. It’s largely subjective but I think we all agree, like you said, it’s “frou-frou”
Having read through the various opinions, I don't understand the acrimony because all of the opinions are correct. More than one fact can be correct at the same time. I have dined there a couple times now. The prices are high, the building is very pretty, and the food is very good quality but that doesn't mean it is necessarily appealing to @muppets3d 's friends. FWIW, I enjoy the food. Its better quality than most of the food offered at WDW. But I also understand that the pricing can make some people cringe. Nothing wrong with that. I will admit, though, I don't understand the complaints about the cake being frozen. The cake slices are not served frozen. Whomever told you that is mistaken. That said, I am certain the cakes were frozen at one time. I'm glad they were. Otherwise, it would be like eating cardboard (cakes are frozen to lock in moisture; its pretty common and most people do not realize that the cake they purchase at a restaurant or store that is not a bakery has been frozen at some point)
Although I don't like cake enough to have an opinion on this particular issue, the problem with the the cake being frozen is that this makes this another chain a la Olive Garden/Applebee's, etc, in which this cake is not made from scratch by an actual pastry chef at that location. Rather, it's mass-produced, frozen, and then shipped to each store. Whether that is an issue is a difference of opinion , like you say.
Yeah, its not like going to a local, high quality bakery. But the Olive Garden/applebee's comparison is a poor one, only because CBS is starting with much better ingredients and reciepies than those chains (I say that, though admittedly, its been at least a decade since I last ate at those other two restaurants and I think I have only had a dessert at either of those once). My point was that most of the cake (and many other dessert items) people buy and love was frozen at some point, even if they don't realize that. And unless you are buying your cake at a local bakery, you want it frozen before transport because otherwise it would be dry and crusty by the time you eat it. Still, there is a wide range in the quality of those cakes even if they have been frozen at some point or not.
Although the starting point for those restaurants may have been slightly lower than CBS (although it sounds like opinions of that are debatable), the main difference is that those chains' quality has significantly decreased due to years of cost-cutting to the use of cheaper ingredients in order to maximize profits.
Totally agree....the whole DVC side is empty....no big river grille, no jellyrolls, no nothing
While true, and I'm certainly not some kind of fan or supporter defending these restaurants, they probably have a long way to go before they're at chain level of things like Applebee's or Olive Garden.
