Chessington World of Adventures Resort

[Rick]

Kev’s back - playing it cool. Not desperate for positive TA reviews or anything. Nope, not at all.

I dated a girl like Kev once, it's not a good look is it.

 

[AT86]

Agreement reached, strikes cancelled.


From: https://twitter.com/cwoa/status/1651179902043815936?s=46&t=zG_i8R9vX93ZZU0RljfzWA

 

[Rob]

I was looking forward to seeing the park completely fall apart, but this is good news all round.

 

[MaxPower]

Pleased for the engineers, it's a shame the rest of the parks staff don't have the same power.

 

[NuttySquirrel]

"Subject to usual availability" may not be a massive improvement!

I'm glad this is sorted anyway, it was starting to look like a total PR nightmare for the park and the Merlin group. Should never have got to this point.

 

[jon81uk]

Pleased for the engineers, it's a shame the rest of the parks staff don't have the same power.

I'm sure they are able to join a union if they wish
Or to unionise and make one be recognised if 50% of staff join.

Edit to add
Currently Unite only represents the engineers, but if enough staff from other areas also joined then yes they would have same power. https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-...cognition-at-chessington-world-of-adventures/

 

[pjanvil]

Looks like they got 13.53% https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-...ikes-off-as-engineers-secure-bumper-pay-deal/ not bad at all. Will certainly make other engineers at theme parks consider joining a union.

 

[rob666]

I'm sure they are able to join a union if they wish
Or to unionise and make one be recognised if 50% of staff join.

Edit to add
Currently Unite only represents the engineers, but if enough staff from other areas also joined then yes they would have same power. https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-...cognition-at-chessington-world-of-adventures/

The problem often is, with this style of (often) temporary employment, people who join the union tend to be the people who are not welcomed back the following year...
For entirely different reasons than their union membership obviously...as that would be illegal.

 

[AT86]

*checks prices* - £17.50 to eat at Pizza Pasta at Chessington these days and they have removed the regular plates and replaced them with paper ones.

Not only a quality downgrade but as pizza covered paper/card can’t be recycled it will all end up in the bin. What an absolutely ridiculous situation.


From: https://twitter.com/hiitsowen/status/1651226305533292549?s=46&t=zG_i8R9vX93ZZU0RljfzWA

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

That is very poor considering the current push in society to be more environmentally conscious. Surely it costs more to keep buying in disposable plates than it does to wash and reuse proper plates. It’s not great from a guest perspective either, hardly a premium experience dining off paper plates, it might be ok for quick service but not for a sit down experience. Just shows how Aramark operate. High prices and cut corners left and right

Really happy for the engineering staff, great news that they have managed to come to an agreement they’re happy with. I hope engineering staff at other merlin parks are taking note.

 

[jon81uk]

Surely it costs more to keep buying in disposable plates than it does to wash and reuse proper plates.

The cost and issue is possibly needing a kitchen porter to do the washing, whereas the servers can just bin paper plates. I expect they are trying to pay peanuts and are struggling to recruit kitchen porters.

Although I agree it is terrible from a guest perspective.

 

[venny]

It’s cheaper.

They wouldn’t have changed to paper if it wasn’t.

 

[Alix]

It’s cheaper.

They wouldn’t have changed to paper if it wasn’t.

Possibly the dishwashers have failed. Aramark run my work canteens and regularly resort to paper plates as the dishwashers break and they can’t/won’t fix them.

Edit: I don’t work in a prison, (honest) and I don’t eat in the canteen any more as it’s so expensive so don’t know re current plate situation

 

[NuttySquirrel]

*checks prices* - £17.50 to eat at Pizza Pasta at Chessington these days and they have removed the regular plates and replaced them with paper ones.

Not only a quality downgrade but as pizza covered paper/card can’t be recycled it will all end up in the bin. What an absolutely ridiculous situation.


From: https://twitter.com/hiitsowen/status/1651226305533292549?s=46&t=zG_i8R9vX93ZZU0RljfzWA

That is really appalling, both from a guest experience and an environmental perspective. Hope it's temporary.

Maybe the washers up are also on strike?

 

[mynameduck361]

Wonder what this is

 

[Skyscraper]

Wonder what this is

Mandrill Mayhem maybe? Although it could spell 2026 (and March 3rd), and thus be for a future attraction.

 

[Rob]

Mandrill Mayhem maybe? Although it could spell 2026 (and March 3rd), and thus be for a future attraction.

I mean come on, it is nothing to do with a 2026 attraction!

Will almost certainly be linked to Jumanji, it appears Queue Times show rides that are not publicly visible on park apps as code like this.

 

[mynameduck361]

If it is Jumanji i would of thought there would be 3 for all of the rides. But i guess it disproves your theory of sub terra may 5th, unless something does happen in 2026

 

[Danny]

It could be a cat walking across a keyboard and inputting random numbers.

 

[The Big Mack]

Some new World of Jumanji updates today!

First one from a Facebook page

And some more from a YouTuber's vlog uploaded today shows the themed signage installed for Mandrill Mayhem.