WCC oddity/coincidence ?

[Luv2Roam]

Normally I may eat at WCC twice a year. Just by fluke DH and I ate breakfast there the 17th and lunch yesterday, the 25th.
He ordered the all you care to eat skillet both times, and I went along figuring it just as easy to order the same.
Now what was odd was both meals the first skillet brought out was on the skimpy side.
For the breakfast two servers even apologized three times for the lack (and missing selections) of food provided in the first skillet. It was after 10:30 for the breakfast, so we initially just chalked it up to late breakfast serving getting ready for the change to lunch. However that theory went out the window when the second skillet had twice as much as the first.
Yesterday's first lunch skillet at least was not as skimpy on food and selection as we had for breakfast just the prior week.
In both cases we asked for seconds. For the breakfast we just told them to bring a second.
Yesterday I requested seconds just on three items.
In both cases the second skillet had a much larger quantity of food than the original skillet. Much larger. Yesterdays second skillet even contained a lot of ribs, which was something we did not even ask for.
I said to DH both times had the first skillet been as piled high as the second, we would not have asked for any extras.
Just thought that 2 times out of 2 recent stays the second skillets were much more filled than the original skillet served. Coincidence, or that is just what they do -- pile up the refills?
Just seems a very backwards way to do it. Not to mention the food that must be thrown away due to this. Really a shame. Again, had our first skillets been plentiful like the second skillets, no seconds would have been necessary.
This just made me curious if our two meals was just unordinary or if others have had this too and this is really the norm.

 

[TDC Nala]

Maybe they were hoping people would stop at one skillet.

 

[JanineandMike]

this happened to us at dinner last year. the first skillet seemed like it was just enough for one person and the second had enough for 4 people. as the OP stated if it were the other way around we wouldn't have asked for seconds.

 

[rebecca06261]

Perhaps they figure that most people will just sample the first skillet and request more of what they liked? This way, they aren't wasting food that the table wouldn't eat

 

[Luv2Roam]

That logic might work except the second skillet had so much. Like the other poster, the first skillet we had at breakfast literally was enough for one. I think we each even had just a tablespoon of eggs each. I had to scrape around to get a spoonful that was not even over filling by any means. And DH barely had any over a tablespoon size. A toddler could eat more eggs than we were given. Maybe three strips of bacon. And their bacon is the paper thin type. Nothing hearty like Cracker Barrel. Matter of fact it seemed like they just threw in leftover bacon because we had a lot of just bacon bits like you would throw on a salad.
Then the second serving -- enough for three people.
Yesterday at lunch was not too bad. But the second skillet had enough for three people again. And three large pieces of rib meat that we did not even order. (Probably a slab of ribs.)
Just seemed odd. I would think there would be less thrown away food if they served buffet style. I am not big on buffets so glad they don't. But maybe just as much uneaten food gets thrown away on a buffet too.

 

[JanineandMike]

if im not mistake we asked just for mashed potatoes and chicken for our seconds and they brought out the huge full skillet. it just doesnt make sense any way you look at it. we're going back in december and maybe we'll ask for our seconds first.

 

[Luv2Roam]

That first breakfast skillet when it was set in front of us I think all three of us (me, DH and the food runner) looked down on it with a puzzled look. I almost said (and was serious) they had brought us someone else's meal. Server and food runner both apologized when they saw how puny the skillet was.
We even had to ask for biscuits for the gravy. I even said at that time, might as well bring a second skillet now.
My first thought was -- My Disney really has cut back! Then we got our seconds -- the skillet for three.

 

[Stacerita]

That seems a bit odd. When we've ordered the skillet, we always got a really nice size first servings, then just more of what we requested.