If you have a good idea of your dates it pays to make reservations regardless of crowd predictions. The days of walk up when ever you want are in the distant past. You can always cancel the night before if your plans change to avoid the fee. We have a late breakfast at Carnation most trips and they should have a pre-recorded message that "sorry folks...we are not taking walk ups today". This occurs on each and every trip. Be safe, avoid dining disappointment and plan ahead if you can.
We grabbed one of the BB F! Dinner reservations on Jan 20th. We can only hope that WOC comes back to fill the nighttime void.
Mike