Originally Posted By WorldDisney <<To me when we talk about "theming" at a restaurant, it's like talking about "food" at a restaurant. It's an element. And it can be wonderfully well done, mediocre, or downright bad. So I have nothing against theming per se, and I love it when done well. I just don't care for RFC and don't think it's done particularly well.>> And thats fine, everyone has different tastes. I personnally love the restaurant for no other reason it just fits in the resort really nice. I think it being so busy all the time proves how popular it is for most people, so I dont see it going anywhere anytime soon.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Me either, and I love the exterior myself, actually. And if I was 6 I might love the squawking animals erupting every 10 minutes, making conversation impossible, also. As an adult, not so much.
Originally Posted By dshyates But the RC is OBVIOUSLY a family restaurant. Bitching about that fact is like saying that a Mozart Opera sucks because your 5 year old got bored.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I actually think ALL restaurants are theme restaurants. Some just have really boring themes.<< It's like, Zen, man.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Bitching about that fact is like saying that a Mozart Opera sucks because your 5 year old got bored.<< LOL THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Perfectly sums up the last few pages of posts about Rainforest Cafe.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Hey, a teenager said The Sound of Music movie is "stupid." Guess they should have never made it, because a teenager didn't like it.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Bitching about that fact is like saying that a Mozart Opera sucks because your 5 year old got bored.> I'm not bitching about it. If other people like it, great. I'm just saying it's not my thang. To each their own. (And doesn't that clear up about 8 years of posts on DCA?)
Originally Posted By gadzuux Maybe your five year old didn't like the Mozart opera because he found it derivative and overly sentimental. I'm wondering, could disney operate RFC if it came to that? I agree with the earlier posters that it fits in perfectly with the DTD environment, and is well suited to absorbing large numbers of families with kids. But if RFCs parent corp goes belly up, having these few individual locations continue to operate essentially the same business - but without licensing agreements - they could be in breach of some kind of copyright. They could change the name around, but the interior theming would likely remain largely the same, and the menu items would be similar too. At what point does a "Rainforest Cafe" become some other kind of restaurant? How much would they have to 'change it up' to make them considered different?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<At what point does a "Rainforest Cafe" become some other kind of restaurant? How much would they have to 'change it up' to make them considered different?>> I'm not a lawyer so I could be completely wrong, but I would think RFC only has copyright on the name and logo, and possibly the names of some of their food. Anyway, knowing Disney, they would turn it into a mega-character dining restaurant, at which point the theme would be totally different.
Originally Posted By dshyates I could see both the DTD@DLR and the RC@DAK becoming a version of a character/ Adventurers Club type restaurant. Something Like Mickey's Safari Club. The 2 different Landry's restaurants@DtD@WDW being bought by a third party or 2 and turned into what ever they want.
