Something I noticed about WDW restaurants

[Syrreal]

Has this ever happened to you? You go to your favorite WDW restaurant...the same one you have been to on the last 3 or 4 trips... and it's just not as good as it has been.
I call this... restaurant fatigue. It happens to the best restaurants and I think it's more of a personal issue than one with the restaurant itself.
"How do I solve this?" you might ask. Simple. You actually have to try somewhere new. Preferably somewhere you have not been yet or atleast have not been in the past 2 times. Then, when you come back you your fave restaurant (the next time or the time after that) it's like it's a brand new place with all the wonder and excitement and tastiness that you remember.

 

[slcmkh]

This happened to us at 50s Prime Time Cafe. It just never lived up to the great memory we had of our first time there. We finally stopped going there and will try again at some future time.

Others, like 'Ohana, are perennial family favorites and we're not ready to take a "vacation break" from them.

Nice take on this.

 

[Syrreal]

Thanks slcmkh
Actually, I think that the places it happens the most to us is at Garden Grill and Whispering Canyon. We have already learned that we can't go more than three times before having to "switch it up" and I know that it's not anything different with the restaurant but with us.

 

[eeyoreiscool]

Then again every place is bound to have a bad day and if you go enough you will eventually hit the bad day. We have been to most of the restaurants and agree that it is always fun to try something new. There are some we didn't really enjoy but we now know for sure. We have also found some new ones we liked and entered in our rotation of places.

 

[musicwoman]

I would have to agree with going too much. We are trying the 50's prime time this time around for the FIRST time. I can't wait - my favorite decade!!

 

[pezpam]

I think you're right.

It's like when we were kids and went camping and got <gasp> Kraft Mac and Cheese for dinner. Well, it was different and we'd beenhiking all day and it was just The Best Dinner Ever!!! But, get home and it's just boxed mac and cheese.... not nearly as special and certainly not living up to the memory/hype. Restaurants I get to as part of repeated trips (I have a couple of cities I have to visit each year for work, plus WDW of course...) seem to start feeling less Perfect after a few visits. I try something new, then eventually go back to the first place. All works out.

 

[richard_andmel]

My DH says this is like the law of diminishing returns. In other words every time you "consume" something the next time it gives you that little bit lest satisfaction till eventually you want to have something else instead.

 

[Forever42]

This happens to us way too much, since we live here. We're spending the day at Epcot tomorrow for our Valentine's Day "celebration" and were discussing Le Cellier.. and realized that we've been so much for lunch that we don't really want to go. Imagine that?! We're going to be trying Big River Grille instead, since we really do need to try new places.