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Food & Beverage: The Aramark Era begins

GooseOnTheLoose said:
I would, but I'm fed up of eating bits of stale burger buns all day. So are my goosey cousins.

It's not that I'd like to see a healthy food outlet as such, it's more than I'd like like to see a food outlet without unhealthy options, if that makes sense?

I don't want dry hot dogs. I don't want beige chicken tenders and chips.

Give me some wraps, or burritos. Give me fresh sandwiches, or subs, on wholemeal or artisanal bread, with a decent portion of filling and maybe even, shock, mayo. Give me New York or Roman style pizza by the slice. Give me a rice box or pot. Give me fresh fruit. Give me a chicken salad etc...

I'm not asking for the wheel to be reinvented, and I'll happily pay a premium for quality. Just don't give me what is essentially McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut, or their impersonations.

Also why does the only outlet which will do "healthier" options have to be in Cbeebies land and not replicated anywhere else? It makes it uncomfortable for those without goslings.
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I agree with that, it was the previous poster who asked for another cafe, which is something that is available in Forbidden Valley and Towers St.

As you say something like burritos or similar would be a good addition (or return of course. But another cafe with packaged stuff wouldn’t be worth it.
 
Petition for Jacket Potato takeaway huts that serve cheese and beans / Chilli con carne / tuna if you’re nasty.

A niche favourite of mine would be a takeaway place that sold tortellini pasta. None of that penne shite they sell in Pizza and Pasta. Options with Carbonara sauce/Mascarpone sauce/cheese sauce.

Shouldn’t have written this when I’m hungry.
 
The park is crying out for a carvery and buffet style restaurant where there’s a decent amount of choice so guests can decide if they want a healthy meal or a full on roast. Heck, separate the concepts out and have both in separate venues. Towers Street Carvery and The Captain’s Buffet in the now disused indoor seating area in Mutiny Bay.

I personally wouldn’t reduce the current fast food offering - the park just needs more choice and more indoor capacity.

Eating a shit burger on a park bench in November - which me and my family did this year - is just a bit dirty.
 
pluk said:
It's still in use for Eastern Express, isn't it?
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Every time I’ve been for the past few years, the actual indoor area of eastern express has been closed but the stalls outside serving jackets and baguettes have been open.

I may be wrong obviously, but the indoor area has always looked very closed to me.
 
s_g_k said:
The park is crying out for a carvery and buffet style restaurant where there’s a decent amount of choice so guests can decide if they want a healthy meal or a full on roast. Heck, separate the concepts out and have both in separate venues. Towers Street Carvery and The Captain’s Buffet in the now disused indoor seating area in Mutiny Bay.

I personally wouldn’t reduce the current fast food offering - the park just needs more choice and more indoor capacity.

Eating a shit burger on a park bench in November - which me and my family did this year - is just a bit dirty.
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Although reopening towers street grill as a carvery buffet might be nice, what the park really needs right now is more fast food with indoor seating. I don’t think much more plated food is needed yet.
 
GaryH said:
Carvery would work well actually. I’d definitely go for that!
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It’s fast food but good food in the sense it’s fast because it’s essentially a buffet and good because you get vegetables. A high throughput carvery restaurant is surely a no brainier. The only issue with situating it in towers street is that by lunch time, most people are deep within the park and towers street is naturally very quiet. Yes I’m aware I’m criticising my own plans here…

But I’m semi-convinced that if a decent themed carvery opened on towers street then it would draw enough people in to make it worthwhile.

And ensure it serves alcohol.
 
I think the park really needs to look towards the British highstreet. Having a pub grub Spoons-style restaurant would be a no-brainer as most of its microwaved so it can achieve economy of scale, high margins, high turnover and quality meals. All things which are ideal for a theme park!

Furthermore the park is missing a Greggs style bakery or a Chippy since the last one burnt down in 2015. These are all foods that Towers could easily sell at scale and improve their food offerings whilst being familiar to UK consumers to buy, and we all know how picky the UK public at large can be...
 
Towers isnt the kind of place like Florida that gets an endless cycle of newbies and can get away with rinsing every guest without consequence. Ultimately it is a local park, with mostly British visitors, of which there is only a finite amount of people who will visit. I imagine most are repeat visitors perhaps every 1-2 years. The process is no doubt accelerated with us nerds because a lot of us visit so often, but eventually the general public will cotton onto the crap and begrudge forking out for absolutely dire food (and everything else for that matter).

I really am certain if they bothered to diversify their offering they would eventually end up with more spend per head on food.

Cost wise, I remember being in college only 17 years ago and taking a £5 note for a meal at KFC and getting change. You would barely even get a bottle of coke for that now.


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Slighy off topic, I went to Harry Potter studios last weekend, and guess who does the food. You got it our lovely friends Aramark.

What a shambles. Over priced, cold slapped together food that was nothing like the image.

How do these premium days out get away with this offering its beyond me. Its like we as a society have come to accept that a day out equals this shit. And pay through the nose for it.
 
Jb85 said:
Slighy off topic, I went to Harry Potter studios last weekend, and guess who does the food. You got it our lovely friends Aramark.

What a shambles. Over priced, cold slapped together food that was nothing like the image.

How do these premium days out get away with this offering its beyond me. Its like we as a society have come to accept that a day out equals this shit. And pay through the nose for it.
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Aramark will get their hands slapped if the food offering is so poor there as WB are very strict with the HP licence.
 
Bert2theSpark said:
I think the park really needs to look towards the British highstreet. Having a pub grub Spoons-style restaurant would be a no-brainer as most of its microwaved so it can achieve economy of scale, high margins, high turnover and quality meals. All things which are ideal for a theme park!
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They basically already offer a Wetherspoons style menu at Woodcutters. Most of the food at Wetherspoons is grilled (burgers, steaks, etc) or deep fried (chips, fish, crispy chicken), its only the curry and similar that is microwaved which makes up a small part of the menu. AT already has a grilled food menu at Woodcutters (and Rollercoaster really).
Bert2theSpark said:
Furthermore the park is missing a Greggs style bakery or a Chippy since the last one burnt down in 2015.
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Chip shop is definitely the main thing missing now (as well as mexican). They used to do Greggs style sausage rolls and similar bakes at Corner Coffee, I assume they still do?

Although having looked at the park map Thorpe no longer has fish and chips shown either and their BBQ place (wilderness kitchen) just does hot dogs now. They do still have tacos though (in two locations).
 
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