50's Prime Time Cafe'
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Location: |
Disney - MGM Studios |
Reviewer's Name: |
Michael Parker |
Reviewer's Email Address: |
njmikeparker@home.com |
Date of Meal: |
October 22, 2001 |
Number of Guests at Your Table: |
6 |
Approximate Cost: |
$85 |
Priority Seating / Reservations Made: |
Yes |
Priority Seating / Reservations Comments: |
Made priority seating reservations via
telephone approximately 30 days before departing. |
Time of Wait: |
1 hour and 15 minutes. It was horrible.
Our seating time was for 5:30 PM. It had just started raining hard
about 5:10 and I assume many saw this who were already eating and decided
to slow down a bit and keep eating. Perhaps ordering desert when they
wouldn't have, things like that. But even so, we were not
seated until 6:45 PM. To me, this was totally unacceptable. |
Food Review: |
The food however was great. I had the
fried chicken which was very good. My wife had the pot roast, also
good. Grandmom had the chicken also, and Pop-Pop had the meatloaf.
The children had hot dogs and fries. |
Service Review: |
Our server was fine. Not overly
interactive like some of the other tables. But in her defense, our
whole section (about 4-5 tables) had just come out of the rain and
had waited an hour to eat. So we all were a little weary and less
than the perfect audience by then. |
Atmosphere Review: |
Pop-Pop was reprimanded to get his elbows
off the table. I was told that wearing a baseball hat to the dinner
table was unacceptable (at which point grandmom burst out laughing
since she's told me that for years). One little boy at another table
was told to go stand in the corner for fighting with his sister. It
was fun and I'm sure on any other day, without the downpour and long
wait time, would have been great. |
Other Comments: |
The food and service was fine, the wait
time however was not. It bothered me that I had made my reservation
well in advance, and picked the time that I wanted to eat based on
having time to get to Fantasmic! (which we missed because we didn't finish dinner until 7:40PM and
Fantasmic! started at 7:30PM, that
hour really messed us up) I don't know if I would eat here again. It
was quite a contrast to other PS's we have had in other parks in WDW
and didn't seem to be handled very well (a simple apology by ANYONE
for the long wait time would have gone a long, long way towards
easing the
situation) |
