Originally Posted By gaston lives TDLFAN...are you a pilot or a host/hostess? I know you get around a lot, but your last post now makes things a little clearer for me. I think it's ridiculous to have to stand in three lines, but then again, if that's the way it's set up, what can you do? I never eat in tomorrowland. What's WDW's policy on bringing in your own food?
Originally Posted By Brian Noble The policy is you can't. The practice is somewhat more vague. And, for the record, I'm not fond of the layout in Cosmic Ray's, either---but go for the same reason most parents go, because Sonny is fun. But, when we go, we pick one line and that's that. I'm one of those mean parents who only makes one dinner for the four of us, rather than separate dinners for each person's particular desires at the moment. If one or both kids chooses not to eat it, well, breakfast will come tomorrow.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: To answer your question, DDMan26, duckling--my sisters and I didn't see any other adults with the woman at Cosmic Ray's Cafe. ORWEN: But--later on when we were at City Hall--we did see this same woman again with a man. Both of them were registering their same complaint there as we were waiting in line to ask about something else. ORDDU: As for the ages of the 3 children, it seemed that the oldest would have been between 7 or 8. The youngest seemed to be about 3.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<As for the ages of the 3 children, it seemed that the oldest would have been between 7 or 8. The youngest seemed to be about 3. >> 7 or 8 is too young to have the kid order his or herself
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom RoadTrip was "spot on" here. He said it correctly. Its unreasonable for there to be three seperate lines in Tomorrowland Terrace. And the woman was out of line to take it out on the CM. This past October I went on vacation to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC and in each building you will find both sit down and some table service resturants. ALL the table service resturant had a single central checkout. Much like the food courts at Dixie Landings ( I actually called Dixie Landings Resort today, and much to my pleasure Disney may have changed the name of the resort but they sure didn't change the road name ) and other resorts. I just don't understand how Disney can preform food service concession stands so well elsewhere on property and not get it right at Tomorrowland Terrace. I have eaten in Tomorrowland Terrace and the whole thing is confusing and busts up your party.
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<for one of the major carriers; begins with an 'N' and ends in a 'T' if my memory serves me.>> Northwest??? TDLFAN constantly slams Northwest and thinks that his carrier is far better. I don't think it is Northwest (unless he’s just been messing with our minds all this time…).
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Originally Posted By Kimrue Maybe Tomorrowland terrace is for those families on their "magical gatherings" vacation who have had a little too much "quality time"......Maybe it's like, ok, aunt tilly is making me insane, let's go to lunch at TT, maybe she'll want chicken and we can lose her at the burger line....
Originally Posted By danyoung Well, you can say that you prefer scramble service. But how is the Cosmic Ray's setup out of line? It's absolutely no different from the average mall, and somehow people manage to feed themselves daily. I'm not fond of scramble - I have to wait in 2 lines instead of just one. I don't have a problem with the mom having an issue. I have a HUGE problem with her method of trying to resolve the problem.
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney "I don't have a problem with the mom having an issue. I have a HUGE problem with her method of trying to resolve the problem." Agree on all counts. She went way overboard.
Originally Posted By MsDisney Well here's how my mom would have handled it. We would have all sat at the table with my Dad while she went and got food. She would put the food in front of us. We would eat it. We would not complain that we didn't want it. If we did, it was removed from in front of us and we could go hungry until the next meal. In other words, in our house children were never to order parents around. We ate what was put in front of us. If we didn't like something, we didn't have to eat it. My mother would no more have stood in three lines to get three different kinds of food, or eaten something she didn't want than she would have flapped her ears and flown to the moon. We went where it was the most frugal for a family of six, often split a meal between two of us, and if we complained we did it only once. Interesting how we grew up all understanding that life didn't owe us a living, how to behave appropriately in a social situation, and that something you put up and shut up because it's the reasonable thing to do.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost They aren't really that old. My kids, who in all fairness, are now 30 and 32 were raised the same way. Never were there special orders. They ate what we ate, period. I don't believe they are all messed up because of it. They are now and always have been responsible, hard working people. They never complained because it never occurred to them that there was anything to complain about. It made our lives much easier and theirs too, I would imagine.
Originally Posted By MsDisney Goofyernmost: I'm only 40 and that's how we were all brought up. It's interesting. I watch my sisters cater to their kids like they are short order cooks and it stuns me. Had I been blessed with children, it wouldn't have even dawned on me to fix a different meal for someone who didn't want to eat what was put in front of them. I guess that's just because that's how I was brought up. It just seems like so many issues are really non-issues, or should be, with some parents today. Why should it be a big deal that you have to stand in three lines? Let kid 1 pick what you're eating for lunch today, and kids 2 and 3 eat it or they just don't eat. Will they starve? Hardly. Throw a fit? Take them to a time out. It just seems that by giving in over and over and over again, people make things MORE difficult in the long run.
Originally Posted By alexbook I think it's easy to make this a then-vs-now argument, but I remember one of my grandmothers making similar scenes. In every generation, there are drama queens, and there are reasonable people.
Originally Posted By adizneeguy ^^^ reasonable drama queens? hmmm....... I enjoy Starlight Cafe too, and so do my kids. We eat there probably every other visit and occasionally have an issue or two when we go. Normally it goes something like, "Daddy, when can we have a burger? Why do we just have to eat salad from the condiment bar? Dad, I'm tired of just eating almost sauteed mushrooms and pickle chips? Since when does thinned ketchup count as soup?" You people are right, the kids of today are just plain ungrateful. =)
Originally Posted By Blue Ridge Marie To adizneeguy - Thanks for the chuckle! Hope you and kids have a Merry Christmas!
