Wait your turn!! New seating rules for CS restaurants at WDW...

[Creekermom]

:thankyou for sharing especially for a newbie and first time WDW goer
Sept 19-25

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

This is just a guess on my part but it sounds like if you have food you can get a table. OP can you confirm this is the way it works?

That's right.

Your friends/family who are buying food on separate checks can simply join you when they have their own food. If you're there with more than 4 people, the new system makes it easy to find tables next to each other.

 

[stagemomx3]

That's right.

Once your friends who are buying food on separate checks can simply join you when they have their own food. If you're there with more than 4 people, the new system makes it easy to find tables next to each other.

What about the FPV or the ones in the bathroom? Do we have to wait for them or can we sit and they join us. Common sense tells me that we can sit and they can join us, but your original post did say that the entire party needed to be present before you could sit down.

 

[honeymo78]

Well again in the minority. One of the reasons I've avoided CS in the past is because the last thing I want after I get my food is to fight to get a table because every one I pass is filled with people saving a seat. Honestly I could be done my food and free up a table before some of those tables became occupied with food, instead I'm wandering around with my tray, hoping to get to the empty tables before family who wants to save a seat. I'm tired, hot, sweaty and cranky too - don't I deserve a seat just as much as anyone else?

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

What about the FPV or the ones in the bathroom? Do we have to wait for them or can we sit and they join us. Common sense tells me that we can sit and they can join us, but your original post did say that the entire party needed to be present before you could sit down.

We didn't have one member of our party taking a leak when I arrived with the food so I don't have first hand experience with that situation. However, you could easily tell the CM that you have your food and one member is in the bathroom or whatever and I'm sure they'd let you go to your table. This is Disney World we're talking about here, not Nazi Germany.

 

[panthergirl]

We didn't have one member of our party taking a leak when I arrived with the food so I don't have first hand experience with that situation. However, you could easily tell the CM that you have your food and one member is in the bathroom or whatever and I'm sure they'd let you go to your table. This is Disney World we're talking about here, not Nazi Germany.

Thanks so much for sharing the information with us. It's always helpful to know something in advance rather than having an unpleasant surprise when you arrive. The way you describe the situation I think it might be a good change. Thanks again!

 

[dyna]

Another option might be to place order get a number an CM bring food to our table. That allows us to get condiments and get settled before food arrives.

The little ones can start gettin fed their mush, bottle, breast what ever they need. Those that already has hands full won't have to worry about how they gonna get that food to the table.

It would speed up the line till the restaurant fills up an frankly if a place is that crowded I don't want to eat there anyway. Even then most of the time is spent in line waiting to order an get food.

Also it would help a great deal if everyone knows what they want before they ever get in line to order. Most ppl do that yet there is always that few that doesn't think that far ahead. It slows down the line for everyone else behind them.

 

[BethR]

Now I am VERY interested to see this new plan in action. As the OP has stated, s/he is the ONLY one who has posted who has already experienced the new policy. So far be it from me (or any of us) to say whether the policy will work or not.

As with all new policies, there will be some that like it, and others that don't. But why not let's give it a try first before we state with any certainty that it is the best invention since sliced bread, or that it should be scrapped.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

:thankyou for sharing especially for a newbie and first time WDW goer
Sept 19-25

Have fun on your first trip! Although if you're going in September, you won't get to see the new CS system in action. IMO, value season's the best time of the year to go. This last week was a zoo!

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Thanks so much for sharing the information with us. It's always helpful to know something in advance rather than having an unpleasant surprise when you arrive. The way you describe the situation I think it might be a good change. Thanks again!

Happy to oblige!

 

[mickeyfan2]

This is a great idea. I hope they keep this new policy.

 

[Luv2Roam]

I am GLAD to see this in place, and hope it works out well.

 

[stagemomx3]

Another option might be to place order get a number an CM bring food to our table.

That is how it works at White Water Snacks- the food court at The Grand Californian.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

. . . When I wait for the table at Le Cellier, my wife and children are checking out the foliage outside . . . or even in the nearby sections of Future World. When the table is ready, they come to the restaurant.

1) So, do the same thing at the CS spots.
2) WOW!
3) I just solved one of the biggest problems on this post.
4) Am I good, or what?

 

[stagemomx3]

We didn't have one member of our party taking a leak when I arrived with the food so I don't have first hand experience with that situation. However, you could easily tell the CM that you have your food and one member is in the bathroom or whatever and I'm sure they'd let you go to your table. This is Disney World we're talking about here, not Nazi Germany.

I never said it was! I was just wanting to clarify what you said in your original post about the entire party needing to be present before you could sit down.

In order to sit down at a table, you need to 1) have your entire party together,

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

I never said it was! I was just wanting to clarify what you said in your original post about the entire party needing to be present before you could sit down.

Just teasing you a little

...and you're right about what you said in an earlier post. As far as my experience, common sense does dictate alot of what's going on with this new policy.

 

[Sammie]

The main reason for this is keeping people who are not eating at all, but just resting in a cool place out of the restaurant and keeping people who pack thier lunches and then use the space for their bring your own meal.

Anything costing Disney money will get their attention.

 

[dawnball]

. In order to sit down at a table, you need to 1) have your entire party together, and 2) have your food in hand. Once the CMs manning the entrances to the seating areas (2 at every door) see that your ready to sit down, they tell you where the available tables are and where's a good place to sit.

Man, I'm glad that our next trip is during low season. Although, it's during free dining too, so we may bump into that. It might work well - obviously some people have good experiences with it. I just suspect it would be one more reason for us to avoid CS locations. Then again, it might just be my day to realize what a bad fit CS generally is for people with food allergies.

Oh, and as for the whole "just discreetly show your GAC" - A) There's no such thing as discreetly showing a GAC. It's pretty obvious what you're doing no matter how private you try to be. I'm starting to think that the most discreet thing to do is hang it around your neck so that CMs can see it coming. B) There are a lot of people with non-obvious disabilities who don't have a GAC (for whatever reason) that would still have difficulty with that situation.

 

[maxiesmom]

The main reason for this is keeping people who are not eating at all, but just resting in a cool place out of the restaurant and keeping people who pack thier lunches and then use the space for their bring your own meal.

Anything costing Disney money will get their attention.

See, that is my question. Where on earth do the powers that be think that the people who bring their own food in eat? From what I have read on this board before, it is at these very tables! So now you can bring food in, but you have nowhere to eat it.

And what if you like to sit a while after you eat? Are they going to be shooing you away from the tables like rif-raf? Or will families be forced to leave one token fry on a plate so they can claim that they are still eating?

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

And what if you like to sit a while after you eat? Are they going to be shooing you away from the tables like rif-raf? Or will families be forced to leave one token fry on a plate so they can claim that they are still eating?

As far as I could tell, once you ate, you could sit around as long as you'd like, although in typical Disney fashion, most guests typically ran back out into the park immediately after eating. We actually sat for about 10 minutes after we were finished and my wife fed our infant daughter...no bum's rush by the Disney staff, no pressure from other guests wanting our table, plenty of open tables for everyone...it was great!