Pepper Market

[MinnieVanMom]

Please explain how to order at Pepper Market for me? Do I get in lines and wait for the food or is brought to us after we order?

I will be alone with my SN child and just hope we can manage each day for our meal. Is there any assistance at the restaurant? Do I tip the server for the counter service?

 

[chocolateMinnie]

Your 'server' takes you to your table and gives you a ticket. They bring your drinks to your table and your silverware and stamp your ticket accordingly.

Under normal circumstances you visit a number of stalls/stands each with a different type of food, e.g. bakery, pizza, mexican, salads etc. You choose your food and they stamp your ticket with the food you have ordered. You wait and take it back to your table. This IMHO is a real pain because with two children we find that they start eating then one of us then the other of us and no-one actually sits down together.

I would be very surprised if you didn't get help if you asked with a SN child if you are alone.

They automatically charge you a 10% gratuity charge which personally gets my goat as other than one drink you are in effect having counter service meals with an organised seating area.

When you have finished your meal you take your ticket to the checkouts at the exit and pay for the total of your meal.

 

[Disney Doodle]

Can someone tell me if the Pepper Market meals can be used as a counter service meal with the Quick Service Dining Plan? I have conflicting answers when I try figuring out on other websites. I know the experts here on the boards will know the "real deal!"

Thanks!

 

[MinnieVanMom]

I have read it is QS meal even the steak dinner.

Chocolate Minnie, thanks for explaining to me how it is done. I am just going to have to ask them to bring the food to us after I order. My little guy is not going to stand there and wait without problems.

 

[Tikitoi]

Just don't get the spicy wings. Good flavor, but fried "very hard".

 

[Buzz2001]

 

[smithpack]

the CM I talked to last night when making reservations said that the pepper market food is all counter service. Even the $22.00 Ribeye. He said is family ate here and their bill came to $64.00, and it was still a counter service, NOT a table service. That is a great deal. I asked him to repeat it to me twice just to make sure I heard him right.

 

[DisDee]

We've eaten here several times on the DDP, and in my opinion, its one of the best uses of the counter service credits on the plan. The food service area has several stations with different types of food offerings such as deli, pasta, Asian, pizza, etc. My husband did get the steak as one of his CS meals.The only thing I remember being limited was the dessert selection-just ask the CM at the dessert station if the selections are not marked with the DDP symbol. When you order your meal, just wait at the station as the CM prepares it. Your "server" at the table will get your drinks. We haven't used the plan in more than a year, so of course things may have changed slightly at the Pepper Market, but I would put it on your list since its much more like a table service meal.

 

[mmcguire]

We ate at PM several times last year and found it chaotic. You get seated, get your drinks, and then you're on your own.

Don't count on someone helping you -- the servers are busy seating people, bringing drinks or clearing tables, and the cooks are slammed with orders -- it's a counter service, not table service. If they brought orders to everyone with kids, they couldn't do anything else.

The problem is the different stations, and the fact you have to wait at each. The cooks don't ask your name when you order; they just call out the entree when it's ready. The Mexican station is the worst because you order on one side, then walk around where there's bunch of people standing waiting for their food. There's no line, so it's impossible to know who ordered what first. When they call out a wet burrito plate, you don't know if it's yours, or if it belongs to someone ahead of you.

Once you get your order, you'll have to go to the kids' station, put their order in, and wait again while your food gets cold.

The food was pretty good, but their system is terribly disorganized. I wouldn't go back unless I was staying at CSR and on the DDP.

 

[minniebeth]

So my question is, how does it work if you have refillable mugs? If it is considered counter service, then is it ok to bring your mugs and not order a separate drink? Is there a place to refill your mugs there? (I'm assuming there is...) Even though they seat you, not everyone in your party has to be eating I'm assuming, that would be alright and you are charged gratuity only on the food you are ordering?