Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Since many love the Ghiradellis in the MK's Downtown Disney I was wondering about the absence in Californias Downtown Disney.. Especially since it is originally located in San Francisco. Does anybody know about this? Let's start a rumor.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt It should really be inside DCA in the Bay Area Section in my opinion. A full mock-up of the manufacturing plant might be interesting.
Originally Posted By cstephens I'm thinking that might be too direct a conflict with Disney's other chocolate partners. WDW's DTD is pretty far away from the parks. DTD in Anaheim is just next door. /cs
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I guess my thoughts focused on the Hot Fudge Sundae with all the extras and not on the chocolate.I do not like the chocolate sold at the candy store in DD.
Originally Posted By seanyoda Nestle; hence the Haagen Dazs ice cream shop in Downtown Disney. Yes, there is a Haagen Dazs shop in Florida on the west side, but the Ghirardelli's is a fair walk away over in the Marketplace and was there first.
Originally Posted By TP2000 About the time DTD was gearing up, Ghiradelli's was scaling back their retail operation. In the 1990's there was a G's soda fountain at South Coast Plaza, down near Sak's. It was great for several years, then the place kind of went south. The last few times I went in there over a period of 18 months craving a Goldrush Sundae the customer service was horrible and the place needed a good cleaning. Then it closed very suddenly. That was around 1999 or 2000. Clearly G's wasn't that passionate about setting up these retail soda fountains far from their San Fran home base. They still have the soda fountain in the Ghiradelli Square in San Fran near the wharf. But even there it's not quite what it used to be. When I visited San Fran last a couple years ago the soda fountain looked kind of sad, it wasn't polished or sparkling, and the employees there were barely a cut above McDonalds. Something has happened to Ghiradelli's 1990's push into retail locations, and there just doesn't seem to be much passion from that company towards operating upscale soda fountains anymore. Anaheim's Downtown Disney and DCA is just one casualty of that change from Ghiradelli.
Originally Posted By retlawfan They also have a retail location along the waterfront/cannery row in Monterey, CA. It's a small shop that could be easily replicated in the Wharf area of DCA.
Originally Posted By GrandGibsonGirl Mmm...Ghiradellis would be nice. My parents and I were definitely known in the past to make trips to SF just to get ice cream sundaes. The hard "Alcatraz rock" chocolate sauce is a definite must. Personally I've always liked the feel of the ice cream shop, and I think it would be great in Downtown Disney. Of couse it couldn't go into Dis itself, though, because of my namesake.
Originally Posted By ni_teach There is no Ghiradelli because the company didn't want to PAY Disney for having their name in the park.
