How does sharing a meal and getting a drink at BOG breakfast work?...

[supersnoop]

When you split a meal you are taking up a seat that could (and would) be used by a person who orders a meal. In 2 seats, Disney is getting paid for 1 meal whereas they should be getting paid for 2. This is not McDonalds where you can just run in and hang with your friends and not eat. Its an overwhelmingly popular restaurant where seating is very hard to come by (using "you" in a general sense here). How does Disney react? They up the price for everyone (which they just did).

When you split a meal or order light, you're taking up less time and they turn the tables over faster. They measure revenue in $/time, not $/table.

 

[wdwpracticalprincess]

I had no idea we are breaking "rules" or being "takers" by splitting plates. Our party of 3 is planning on ordering 1 adult meal, 1 child meal, and paying for our extra drink -- same as what we'd do at Via Napoli or California Grill or any other TS. BOG is the only pre-park opening, QS, ADR available, thus its appeal and overwhelming popularity. I will politely disagree that we are "penalizing full paying patrons" by splitting plates. We are still full paying guests, regardless of how much food we order.

 

[supersnoop]

BOG is the only pre-park opening, QS, ADR available, thus its appeal and overwhelming popularity.

It's not really that popular. You can probably get a pre-park reservation for half the days in August right now.

 

[Disneyliscious]

I had no idea we are breaking "rules" or being "takers" by splitting plates. Our party of 3 is planning on ordering 1 adult meal, 1 child meal, and paying for our extra drink -- same as what we'd do at Via Napoli or California Grill or any other TS. BOG is the only pre-park opening, QS, ADR available, thus its appeal and overwhelming popularity. I will politely disagree that we are "penalizing full paying patrons" by splitting plates. We are still full paying guests, regardless of how much food we order.

Note the underlined. Can you explain to me how you will get drinks for 3 people at BoG breakfast (while only ordering 2 meals), which is what this thread is about? If someone can confirm you can order a drink with no meal at BoG breakfast, you'll have my apologies.

 

[mejo]

I would be happy with a pay per person price. Maybe they don't think they could fill the Restaurant though.

 

[wdwpracticalprincess]

According to Josh at easywdw.com :

"if you have a reservation for four and only three people want entrees, you can make a reservation for four and just order three meals once you get there. It’s not a big deal."

http://www.easywdw.com/uncategorize...gdom-morning-touring-over-spring-break-32715/

I blame him for the BOG pre-park ADR frenzy.

 

[supersnoop]

Note the underlined. Can you explain to me how you will get drinks for 3 people at BoG breakfast (while only ordering 2 meals), which is what this thread is about? If someone can confirm you can order a drink with no meal at BoG breakfast, you'll have my apologies.

Maybe if you order an extra bottled drink? I was able to get an extra cup for water.

 

[sharonabe]

According to Josh at easywdw.com :

"if you have a reservation for four and only three people want entrees, you can make a reservation for four and just order three meals once you get there. It’s not a big deal."

http://www.easywdw.com/uncategorize...gdom-morning-touring-over-spring-break-32715/

I blame him for the BOG pre-park ADR frenzy.

But that still doesn't answer the question of ordering an extra drink. It's no big deal to order fewer meals than people, but no one has reported back that they could order an extra drink.

 

[wdwpracticalprincess]

You can pay for another drink. My husband orderd his own meal and wanted 2 perriers. He had to pay for the 2nd Perrier a la carte.

I believe this was the second post.

 

[jon18uk]

No, right now you only pay for what you order which is why folks are sharing meals. If two of you share one meal, then you pay only for one meal. All meals cost the same price.

In a true Prix Fixe restaurant, everyone pays the same price. So every diner would be charged regardless of how much they ate. For now Disney is calling it that, but not implementing it.

There are restaurants that offer both Prix Fixe and a la carte and you can have one diner order form the set menu and the other a la carte. The issue at BOG is that drinks are included in the Prix Fixe and there are no a la carte offerings.

Out of interest I assume at Cinderella Royal Table you can't share meals, that's a Prix Fixe only and only diners can be seated I think.

Personally, I've never heard of any restaurant forcing you to order food that you don't want..

All buffet and most family style charge every guest seated no matter whether they eat or not, for example Crystal Palace, Garden Grill, Chef Mickey. The only other place that is a fixed price but not buffet is Cinderellas I think.

 

[AlixaLock]

We are a party of three and we ordered 4 meals because we want to try a few things (no dinning plan! LOL!) so we have an extra drink and we'll make up for anyone skipping or splitting! LOL!

(Sorry .... just injecting a little levity!)

I actually didn't even realize it was pre-fix ... I just pre-ordered what we wanted online!

 

[HopperFan]

There are restaurants that offer both Prix Fixe and a la carte and you can have one diner order form the set menu and the other a la carte. The issue at BOG is that drinks are included in the Prix Fixe and there are no a la carte offerings.

Out of interest I assume at Cinderella Royal Table you can't share meals, that's a Prix Fixe only and only diners can be seated I think.

All buffet and most family style charge every guest seated no matter whether they eat or not, for example Crystal Palace, Garden Grill, Chef Mickey. The only other place that is a fixed price but not buffet is Cinderellas I think.

When Disney announced the breakfast they announced it as "Prix Fixe" and nothing else. "Starting on March 20, Be Our Guest Restaurant in Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort will begin testing a prix fixe breakfast from 8-10 a.m. daily through June 18."

Use that term and the expected process was that everyone would pay and order which entree and drink they wanted, then share pastries like CRT and Askershus. This is not a new type of offering. If there is no option for purchasing more drinks as some keep saying then it seems like the computers are set up with the thought process that everyone will order so your drink is included. Refillable drinks are not meant to be shared. And honestly the pastry plate seems to be a big issue since so many have stated they are trying to get enough pastry so they can feed folks who didn't buy meals. (I have eaten there and we all ordered a meal).

DISNEY has created this nightmare by turning one of the hardest to get ADRS into an overpriced quick service in the name of a "frou-frou prix fixe French fare" breakfast.

 

[DisBuckMan]

When you split a meal or order light, you're taking up less time and they turn the tables over faster. They measure revenue in $/time, not $/table.

Well, that may be true, and it may not be true. In most circumstances, I'd agree that you're spot on. However, in the case of BOG, it seems as if many of the "sharers" really have very little interest in even eating there....they simply want to be able to go in and see what it's all about. There are numerous threads here about people who are making ADR's, but then trying to figure out a way to find something to eat, because nothing on the menu appeals to them. Seems ridiculous to me...if I don't like what a restaurant has to eat, I'm not going there. In the case of these types of folks, I'd say many are much more likely to sit longer to "take it all in" than those who are there to simply eat a meal and leave.

 

[mkraw74]

I have not been but from the description the self serve station has coffee, tea and I believe hot chocolate and fountain drinks and cups are at the station. The bottle drinks are 16oz so that's enough for two cups.

 

[CourtneyBags]

Good to know we can split entrees. It really bugs me that breakfast is more expensive than lunch. Eggs are cheap!

 

[Fraeli]

I had breakfast at BOG in April with DH, DS5 And DD3 and we ordered 2 kids meals and 1 adult meal. We knew that it would be more than enough food for the 4 of us at 7:30 AM, as it turned out to be (we coudn't even finish the pastries). While ordering at the Kiosk I asked a CM how should I do to order an extra coffee and she said that I should just go to the station and grab it. I asked the CM that brought our food the same question and she gave us the same answer. She also said that it wasn't possible to pay for that extra coffee separately and encouraged us to just go to the station and get our 2 coffees. So that's what we did. When we left, we got 4 cups of water, for the 4 of us.
It was a pre park opening ADR on the week after Easter and about only 1/3 of the tables were taken when we arrived. It was a little busier when we left, but there were still many tables left.

 

[cbellasmomma]

Lots of people have done this. Granted, I wasn't on the dining plan, but we had a reservation for three but purchased two meals.

Lots of people also agree with you. I (and many others) were certain that they wouldn't make breakfast permanent until they could figure out how to charge everyone walking through the door. We've been proven wrong.

Well by raising the price to $21.00 they almost always cover their cost. Breakfast is the highest profit margin meal for a restaurant. Most people probably don't know you can get 2 meals for 3 people and for those that do it, the $21 more than covers the cost of eggs, bread, etc. Those are VERY cheap in bulk.

 

[cbellasmomma]

I thought Coffee was separate and not considered a beverage? I thought I read it somewhere on DIS

 

[Fraeli]

As far as I remember, there are 3 kinds of "beverages " (in a broad sense) at BOG breakfast: 1) the bottled one that comes with your meal, one per meal (we had apple juice); 2) "special" ones that are listed on the menu and, therefore, you can order separately; in this case you actually pay for the light up cup and are allowed to fill it at one of the beverages stations; and 3) beverages that are made available at the beverage stations (coffee, tea, soft drinks, water etc) with disposable cups.
In our case, we were told that we could not purchase the extra cup of coffee that we wanted, as it was not sold as a separate item (we were not interested in the light up cups); however, acording to the CMs that we talked to, we could just go to the serving station and get it.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

When you split a meal or order light, you're taking up less time and they turn the tables over faster. They measure revenue in $/time, not $/table.

REALLY?? LOL! This might be the strangest post in this thread.

Do you eat dramatically faster if you split a meal?

Does the server not make the same number of trips to your table?

Did Disney know you somehow planned to finish faster and therefore take an extra reservation?


This logic has some major flaws

As for the taking of the extra beverages, well at least we know why the price went up, they just built it in.